Pictures of the year 2010. Nat Geo's 2010 Top Tens. Time Magazines Top 10 Everything of 2010. Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2010. Want more than what you see here? Get the monthly newsletter, new for 2011. As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Of course, then, today is my birthday, & it’s a big one.
Today, I’m 30. I started this “best posts” idea 5 years ago & it’s grown huge. 2010 by far was the biggest year yet in the Internet Marketing realm. Here’s how I do it: I read & review hundreds — thousands — of articles yearly, on all Internet Marketing topics from SEO to social media to general entrepreneurship (new for 2010!) This list is very long, but I hope it’s not any less valuable. Special note: This is the LAST wrap up post you’ll ever receive via Techipedia. Social Media: Getting Started, Implementation, and Execution Social Media (and Beyond): Small Business Social Media: Hiring and in the Workplace Social Media: Measurement and ROI Social Media: General.
Not for Profits Among Mashable’s Best of the Web 2010. After more than 1.3 million nominations and votes, the winners of the 2010 Mashable Awards have been announced including a must-follow Not for Profit. The Mashable Awards, formerly known as the Open Web Awards, highlight the best of technology and the web, with a particular focus on new web technology and social media. They also have a strong focus on ‘social good’ and harnessing the web to create positive social change.
According to Mashable, the Awards celebrate major innovations and achievements in the digital and social media landscape by companies, people and projects via an open, multilingual, international, community-nominated voting platform. The winners were announced last week at the Mashable Awards Gala in New York. Must-Follow Non-Profit Winner: To Write Love on Her Arms To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA) is a Not for Profit organisations focused on advocating for hope and help for people struggling with depression, self-injury, addiction and suicide.
Winner: Twitchange. KickStarter's Best of 2010 is Super Inspiring. Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is publishing a look at the best projects the flourishing site has seen over 2010 and the award winners are really uplifting for the spirit. Journalist/cartoonist Ted Rall, for example, used Kickstarter to fund a month of reporting inside Afghanistan. His cartoons from the field were sent first to the 211 Kickstarter supporters who funded his trip. Kickstarter helps people fund a project, almost any kind of project, by using its site as a platform for collecting donation pledges, publishing videos and updates and more. More than 380,000 people have now pledged over $30 million to fund home-recorded music projects, independent films and books and many other creative projects, in just 20 months since the site launched.
Note that all the below examples are projects that exceeded their funding goals, in some cases raising well over $100,000. How do projects like these pull it off? Person of the Year 2010. THE WIRE 50: The Most Influential People In Media This Year. The Wire Top 50: 1-50. The Wire Top 50: A-Z. The Wire Top 50: By Category. Tech in 2010: Samurai CEO Ellison, Apple's Antennagate and More | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD.
According to 2009′s safely-looking-ahead-at-the-year-to-come articles, 2010 was to be “a year of social media convergence.” It was to be a year in which The Cloud “became part of the everyday lexicon of business” and “a year of invention and innovation.” 2010 was to be not just “the year of the tablet,” but also “the year of the smartphone,” “the year of the tweet” and “the year of location.” Above all, 2010 was to be “a year of significant developments” and generally “a busy year for technology.” And I suppose it was that. But for me, 2010 was a year like any of year–one not to be taken too seriously. Because if you can’t laugh at Eric Schmidt telling critics of Google Street View to “just move,” Apple telling people that their grip–not the iPhone 4′s antenna–is faulty, or Oracle’s samurai CEO Larry Ellison in a kimono, then, really, what’s the point?
A Look at How Mobile, Local and Social Defined Retail in 2010 | Tricia Duryee | eMoney | AllThingsD. Three trends accelerated in 2010 that may redefine the way we shop for good: Social, local and mobile. And, in case that’s hard to remember, for short we will refer to it as “so-lo-mo,” like do-re-mi from the “Sound of Music,” except without much “Glee” for retailers. That’s because other than the recession, this past year may represent the biggest challenge for the retail industry since the mid-’90s, when e-commerce was born. Here’s how this daunting, yet exciting and opportunistic, trifecta played out this year: Mobile: There’s definitely an app for that.
As smartphones go mainstream, savvy shoppers use apps to price-check and read reviews of products in the store. Result: Retailers watch in horror as shoppers leave their stores empty-handed and drive across town to another store or go online to order a different or cheaper product. Social: Friends and social circles influence purchase decisions through the rise of Facebook and Twitter.
“There’s still a ton to be done. Top 10 Mobile Products of 2010. Mobile technology has seen major advances over the course of 2010, with new platforms, new services and new usage trends all taking hold to spread the adoption of not just the mobile Web, but the Web itself. The number of smartphone owners are increasing, mobile operating systems are proliferating and apps have become the new go-to tools for accessing mobile content on the go.
When you look back at the past 12 months, it's almost hard to narrow a list down to only 10 top products, in fact - there's so much innovation happening around mobile today. But we think the list below stands out as representative of the most important products from the year. iPhone 4 In June, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the newest iPhone at a packed press event in San Francisco. iPad Apple's introduction of the iPad in March, to put it simply, has forever reshaped the mobile computing landscape. But is the iPad mobile? Android This was Android's year. App Stores ? But the app movement is far from over. iAd. The Top 40 iPhone Apps of 2010. Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Alex Ahlund, the former CEO and founder of AppVee and AndroidApps, which were acquired by mobile application directory Appolicious.
You can read his previous iPhone app picks here and here The iTunes App Store is huge. More than 300,000 apps huge. I’ve watched this monster start from nothing and turn into a billion-dollar industry in only a few short years. We’ve been approaching this point for some time now, but it’s more apparent than ever that app exposure is of critical importance. A healthy majority of iOS app users discover new applications directly from their device as opposed to using iTunes.
If you look specifically at the iPhone, the amount of real estate for discovery is only available to a very small percentage of the total apps. There are currently 20 overall categories, with Games offering an additional 20 subcategories. The expectation is that the market will dictate an app’s worth, but it doesn’t always work out that way. 1.
Report: Analysis Of The Great Mobile App Store Boom Of 2010. Last year, the world went app crazy. If anything, 2010 was the year of the mobile App Store—not only for Apple, but also for Android, Blackberry, and even Nokia. App store analytics firm Distimo has a new report looking at Great Mobile App Store Boom of 2010. While Apple ended the year with roughly 300,000 apps in iTunes, the Android Market grew to about 130,000, while Nokia’s Ovi Store got to 25,000 apps and BlackBerry App World reached 18,000. The number of apps in iTunes doubled, but the smaller app stores grew even faster, with the number of Android apps up 544 percent, Blackberry apps up 268 percent, and Nokia apps up 258 percent. Angry Birds is the most popular app across all mobile platforms, while Facebook is the most popular non-game app.
The most interesting data in the report, though, comes from trends in the Apple App Store, especially looking at the difference between paid and free apps. iPads, Print-on-Demand Slowly Transform Magazines in 2010. This revolution is going to take its time. It’s been a year of high expectations but little fulfillment for those who thought 2010 might forever change the way we read magazines. We’ve seen that disappointing uses of new tools, limited audience interest, and small initial financial returns are going to result in a gradual shift, not a sudden transformation. The iPad certainly hasn’t made print magazines extinct, and in fact some of the early iPad efforts may even have discouraged readers a bit. Other developments in the magazine world — such as the Cooks Source incident and the growing power of social media — also suggest still more challenges and opportunities in the year to come. The Challenges of Innovation for the iPad The number of print magazines stayed steady in 2010, with 193 launches and 176 closures — a great improvement over 2009’s remarkable 596 casualties, as reported by Folio.
The home page of the Project magazine app allows users to select which edition to purchase Related. SF Beta :: Financial Innovation on Plancast. The 50 biggest tech stories of 2010. Posted Friday, December 31, 2010 3:16PM ET by Gabe RiveraPermalink If the year is winding down, and real tech news is slowing to a trickle, you know it's time to reflect on the past 12 months in tech. Again this year we crunched Techmeme's historical data, cancelling out the influences of our editors, essentially ranking stories by links and citations, to produce the following quasi-"objective" list of the year's biggest tech stories.
Feel free to enhance your New Years Eve party chatter with whatever talking points you can glean from them. Sample observations follow: We've been grateful to have you as a reader this year, and hope to earn your continued attention every day of 2011. Image via PartybotPPP. Top 10 Real-Time Web Products of 2010. Last year, when we looked at the top real-time Web products of 2009, we predicted that in 2010 the real-time Web was "likely to become a standard expectation on sites all around the world". Indeed, as we look back on the last year we find that many of the big innovations in terms of the real-time Web come in the form of implementations by companies like Google and Facebook. At the same time, there are still smaller players in the realm that have changed how (and how fast) we expect information on the Web to move and people interact.
Just a year after companies like Facebook started offering a constantly updated stream of real-time content, we expect no less from nearly any site we visit and soon enough, calling something "real-time" will be like identifying something as "social". With that in mind, let's take a look at the top 10 products, innovations and developments in the world of the real-time Web in 2010. Google Instant: Search Goes Real-Time Google...Everything Else SuperFeedr Boxcar. How We Shared Content in 2010: Still More Facebook, More Email Than Twitter, MySpace Lives On. The link sharing service AddThis, which said this month that it's now tracking the interests of more than 1 billion people across the web, has published an infographic breaking down the most popular destinations for content shared through its little widget.
Sites with an AddThis widget (like ours, above) allow readers to send pages of interest to friends through 300 different methods. What's the most popular way people share? Facebook. Now more than ever, AddThis reports that Facebook's share of sharing grew from 33% last year to 44%. The company says that email, the second most popular method of sharing through its service, is 38% bigger than sharing on Twitter! One of several infographics the company released this year is below, click to view full size. Internet Security Breaches in 2010 Increased in Scope and Scariness | Arik Hesseldahl | NewEnterprise | AllThingsD. I can’t remember a year during which computer security stories jumped so readily from the tech and business pages to the front page. The year 2010 was bookended by two such cases. It opened with Google’s disclosure that it had come under attack in China, an apparent attempt to penetrate the Gmail accounts of certain activists and journalists. It ended with the WikiLeaks affair, which stemmed from the alleged theft by an Army private of classified documents stored on a government network.
And let’s not forget in mid-year came the story, as fascinating as it was sobering, of Stuxnet, a computer worm developed by parties unknown–although the smart money is on Israel–that penetrated and ultimately damaged equipment used in the Iranian nuclear program. In Google’s case, the attacks upon its systems raised questions about where it draws the line with authorities in Beijing about such matters as freedom of speech. So, it was not technology that failed. Something similar was true of Stuxnet. THE SILICON VALLEY 100.
It’s finally here! After months of research, evaluation, and debate, we’re pleased to present the definitive list of the 100 people who did the coolest things in Silicon Valley this year: The SILICON VALLEY 100. Congratulations to everyone who made the list. Apologies to anyone who deserved to but didn’t (We’re not omniscient.) And a resounding “tally-ho!” To the dozens of folks who secretly think they should have made it but really didn’t deserve to. (Get out there and do something cooler next year). Here’s to an even more exciting 2011! Acknowledgments Thanks to our many readers who took the time to send us nominations. Steve Jobs Chairman and CEO, Apple2010 was another monster year for Apple. Steve Jobs unveiled the category-creating iPad, as well as the latest and greatest iPhone. Steve clearly did the coolest things in Silicon Valley this year, by a mile.
Elliot Schrage and Sheryl Sandberg — The Facebook Grownups Andy Rubin Elon Musk Pretty cool, huh? Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Cox, Bret Taylor. S top 10 VC startup fundings in 2010. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — at least for Silicon Valley startups in 2010. While many smaller, lesser known newbies languished as venture capital investments declined overall, those that did score, scored big, and have kept themselves in the headlines ever since. So where did VCs put their money in ’10? VentureBeat teamed up with venture capital analytics and reference researchers VC Experts to bring you the top 10 largest single investments in tech startups in 2010 — and why they had so many investors foaming at the mouth. 1.
Twitter Microblogging darling and San Francisco-based startup Twitter claims the crown for the largest single venture capital funding in 2010, after it scored a tidy $205 million infusion and $3.7 billion valuation on Dec. 12. 2. 3. 4. Live video streaming company Ustream, which supplies content to web sites and cell phones, on Feb. 1 raked in $75 million in a second round of venture funding led by Tokyo-based Softbank. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 2010 Year In Review. 10 Most Important Enterprise IT Products of 2010. Ikea, Honda, Dell & Others Named 2010's Greenest Corporations. 2010 Year in Review of Biofuels. The state of innovation 2010: aerospace, agriculture surge; computing leads. 2010 in Review: Time to Reflect & Pay Respect to Another Year. Lessons from 2010. 2010 Trend Watch Update: Online Video. Brain Pickings Redux 2010. 100 most popular baby names of 2010. Rosabeth Kanter - On What Didn't Happen in 2010. You're Out: 20 Things That Became Obsolete This Decade (PHOTOS)
So Long To Ya, 2010 – The JibJab 2010 Year in Review. Bill Maher's video "Check out my Christmas message t…" on WhoSay. The top 10 weird news photographs of 2010. Ripley’s reveal 'Top 10 strangest stories of 2010' There Is Not An App For That: The 10 Strangest iPhone Crimes of 2010 - PCWorld.