4 Social Startups On Track For A Monster 2012 With one month down in 2012, it's a good thing we waited until February to put this out. One of the four sites below wasn't even on our radar until late last month. All four are heading in the right direction in a segment of the Internet that has most saying Facebook has muscled everyone else out.
Updated Fri Feb 10, 2012
ManageWP Is The Unified Wordpress Dashboard We've Needed For Years When it comes to managing multiple sites at once, most bloggers were limited in their choices--especially using Wordpress, which has been conspicuously obtuse when it comes to managing multiple blogs from a single platform. That's the gap that ManageWP fills.
Updated Fri Feb 10, 2012
Remain Diligent: SOPA And PIPA Must Be Squashed, Not Changed As members of both the Senate and the House start falling back to a more defensible position by considering the removal of the DNS provision from SOPA and PIPA, many voices of opposition to the bills are claiming victory. This is a big mistake.
Updated Mon Jan 16, 2012
Open Source Apps that Make Facebook Better Open source is a term often associated with developers, tech-geeks, and even hackers. It invokes an oddly negative response among those who don't understand what it really means. To help introduce open source to the non-tech-savvy world, is there a better way than to show how it integrates with the site that nearly everyone is using?
Updated Tue Dec 27, 2011
How Santa Anita Park Represents The Future Of Mobile Technology When people think of horse tracks, they rarely consider them to be a part of the cutting edge of mobile technology. The mobile-wagering format at Santa Anita Park brings to light a form of mobile technology that we will see duplicated and innovated often in the coming years.
Updated Tue Dec 27, 2011
Storie: The Photo-Sharing App That Actually Does Something Cool There have been some newsworthy failures over the last couple of years in the photo-sharing field, and Facebook has pretty much replaced the need for stand-alone sharing apps. But after years of waiting, there's finally an app worth using.
Updated Wed Dec 21, 2011
Dear Netflix: Bring Back Firefly And (Almost) All Will Be Forgiven Entertainment speculation is normally a lost cause. The only safe bets are that HBO will put out a great series every couple of years, ABC will try to regain their Lost allure, and The Simpsons will probably get another season every year. But a speculative proposition that pairs a fan favorite together with a company that has recently fallen from grace is catching on.
Updated Fri Dec 16, 2011
Startup Favo.rs Does What LinkedIn Should Be Doing We've seen sites in the past blaze a trail in a niche only to be usurped by a slightly better concept. That's one of the unstated goals of Favo.rs, a startup that hopes to take the professional relationships model of LinkedIn and put some weight behind the connections.
Posted Sat Dec 10, 2011
Is Daily Deals Dashboard Frugalo The Cure For Groupon Fatigue? Daily deals dashboard Frugalo launched this week, providing a central hub for shoppers to consolidate their deal hunting and reduce the barrage of notifications they receive from all of the sites.
Updated Wed Nov 30, 2011
5 Newsworthy Teaching Tools For The Future Of Education There is a generation gap between children and their teachers that can make it hard for them to relate. So teachers are using new techniques and technology to recapture the interest of their students.
Updated Wed Nov 30, 2011
5 Reasons Offices Are (Or At Least Should Be) Obsolete Why do so many companies still require the daily commute--are physical offices a remnant of past generations that companies simply can't let go?
Updated Mon Nov 21, 2011
7 Telltale Signs Your Best Employees Are Job Hunting In a bad economy, talent is everything. Unemployment and lowered budgets force companies to cling to their most productive employees to fill the voids left by downsizing. In tech and other industries, it can be even harder as the top talent is well aware that their services are at high demand. How can businesses determine when a rockstar is on the verge of leaving?
Updated Tue Nov 15, 2011
The Social Media Landgrab Is Over: Facebook, Reddit, And Twitter Won Sites continue to pop up every other day in social media as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists sink time and money into building the next big thing. The problem that none of them want to address is that there will likely never be another "next big thing" in social media until the next generation of users rises up.
Updated Tue Nov 15, 2011
7 Recent Discoveries That Could Revolutionize Medicine Since scientists released a rough draft of the human genome to the public in 2000, the impact of science and technology on medicine has been more salient than ever.
Updated Tue Nov 15, 2011
6 Horrible Ad Campaigns (Presumably) By People With Marketing Degrees In marketing and advertising, there's a thin line between success and failure. Campaigns like Wendy's "Where's the Beef" or "Old Spice Man" land on the right side of quirky, funny, and not-quite-insulting-enough to get people riled, while still getting attention and building buzz. These campaigns fell on the wrong side of that line.
Updated Wed Oct 12, 2011
Why It's (Finally) The Time Of The Tablet The rise of tablets has been forecast and disputed for years now, but it's finally arrived. Why the tablet is here to stay.
Updated Fri Sep 30, 2011
The Netflix To Qwikster Shift Smells More Like Creative Accounting Than A Good Business Move When Netflix announced that they were separating their mail and streaming services into two different companies, there was a lot of effort put into focusing attention on the mistakes they made recently rather than the future of the companies. While it makes for great sound bytes and headlines, was it done in a way to hide their true intentions?
Updated Fri Sep 30, 2011
Does Foursquare Have the Juice to Get Huge? Last week's announcement by Facebook that they were dropping their "Foursquare-Killing" Places service brought cheers from their pure-play check-in competitors. With their biggest threat out of the way, does Foursquare have the plan, the momentum, and most importantly the juice to make it to the big time?
Updated Fri Sep 2, 2011
Understanding Americans: The Answers According to Social Media There is a reason that companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter get so much attention from the business world. Obviously, they possess a certain level of influence over the people, but perhaps more importantly they each carry a tremendous amount of data about how people live and what they do. It is through our activities in real life and online that businesses and even governments are able to get their messages out to us more efficiently. What can we learn about ourselves through our actions on social media?
Posted Thu Aug 11, 2011
Google's Success May Mark The End Of Everything Else To use a phrase from Highlander, "There can be only one." That is the direction that Google is heading, intentionally or not. As the dominate player in search, adding social media through Google+ and local business controls through a revamped Google Places, we're heading down a road where nobody else will be able to compete.
Updated Thu Jul 28, 2011
