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Facebook Grows Up

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:05:20 -0400

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Facebook's demographics have changed dramatically in the last several years and site is now attracting more older users. And, this got us thinking: why did this never happen to Myspace? This graphic illustrates some of the trends across the two sites, and highlights some of their distinct differences, which especially with regards to features, may help to explain why Myspace never grew up'.

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Social Networks/Blogs Now Account for One in Every Four and a Half Minutes Online

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:35:19 -0400

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The popularity of social media is undeniable three of the world's most popular brands online are social-media related (Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia) and the world now spends over 110 billion minutes on social networks and blog sites. This equates to 22 percent of all time online or one in every four and half minutes. For the first time ever, social network or blog sites are visited by three quarters of global consumers who go online, after the numbers of people visiting these sites increased by 24% over last year. The average visitor spends 66% more time on these sites than a year ago, almost 6 hours in April 2010 versus 3 hours, 31 minutes last year.

*WORLD'S MOST POPULAR BRANDS ONLINE / April 2010**
Brand	% of World's Internet Population visiting brand	Time per person (hh:mm:ss)
Google	82%	1:21:51
MSN/WindowsLive/Bing	62%	2:41:49
Facebook	54%	6:00:00
Yahoo!	53%	1:50:16
Microsoft	48%	0:45:31
YouTube	47%	0:57:33
Wikipedia	35%	0:13:26
AOL Media Network	27%	2:01:02
eBay	26%	1:34:08
Apple	26%	1:00:28
Source: The Nielsen Company *Global refers to AU, BR, CH, DE, ES, FR, IT, UK & USA only

Brazil not only tops the list of teams favored to win this year's World Cup, they also top the charts with the highest percentage (86%) of Internet consumers visiting a social network. The popularity of social networking in Brazil is due to the Orkut phenomenon, which first appeared there in 2004 by September 2005, half of the Brazilian Internet population visited Orkut. Australian web users average the most time on social networking sites, averaging 7 hours 19 minutes in April, followed by the U.S. and Italy with around six and a half hours each.

Reach and Usage by Country / Apr 2010 (Home & Work)
Social Networking / Blog Sites
Country	% Reach of Active Users	Time per Person (hh:mm:ss)
Brazil	86%	5:03:37
Italy	78%	6:28:41
Spain	77%	5:11:44
Japan	75%	2:50:50
United States	74%	6:35:02
United Kingdom	74%	5:52:38
France	73%	4:10:27
Australia	72%	7:19:13
Germany	63%	4:13:05
Switzerland	59%	3:43:58
Source: The Nielsen Company

Facebook's reach is the widest in Italy, capturing two-thirds of the active unique audience in April 2010, making the site relatively more popular in Italy than in the three major English-speaking markets. Australia, the U.S. and the UK follow Italy with over 60% of active online consumers visiting the site. In contrast, Japanese people have the least appetite for Facebook, with reach and time spent markedly lower than in any of the other countries measured. Ameba, which offers a micro-blogging platform akin to Twitter, is the most popular social networking and blogging site in Japan, visited by 38% of Japanese people online while Facebook is the 40th most popular.

Facebook Reach and Usage by Country / Apr 2010 (Home & Work)

Country	% Reach of Active Users	Time per Person (hh:mm:ss)
Italy	66%	7:00:21
Australia	63%	7:45:28
United States	62%	6:43:22
United Kingdom	62%	6:19:59
Spain	57%	4:04:53
France	57%	4:33:05
Switzerland	45%	4:18:47
Germany	27%	3:42:50
Brazil	26%	1:46:50
Japan	3%	0:31:38
Source: The Nielsen Company

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The Situationally Aware Business

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:30:24 -0400

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Originally posted on Forbes.

As I write this column it's the morning after the long Memorial Day weekend and the web is brimming with activity. Google searches are spiking for Ted Koppel, who's 40-year-old son was tragically found dead. Twitter, meanwhile, is abuzz over WGM short for the primetime Korean reality show We Got Married. This is perhaps a direct reflection of the service's growing global appeal. Finally, over on Facebook word is spreading of a scam featuring what's deemed as a hilarious video. A CNN news story on the hoax currently has over 10,000 shares.

All of these are disconnected events; a Polaroid snapshot of our psychology at a single moment in time. Some of these memes are ephemeral. Others may be lasting. However, our success as marketers increasingly hinges on having a deep, real-time understanding of our networked environment and how these themes can impact our programs. Enter situational awareness an essential skill every CMO-level executive and their staff must build and evolve.

Situational awareness, according to Wikipedia, is the practice of being aware of what is happening around you to understand how information, events, and your own actions will impact your goals and objectives, both now and in the near future. It's common throughout the intelligence community. The White House Situation Room, for example, operates a 24/7 Fusion Center that pulls together 3,000 sources of information into three daily briefings for the President. For more, see this fascinating short video.

What's important to note is that situational awareness is not a substitute for client/brand monitoring, reporting or measurement. Rather, it's a complementary set of processes that help you form gut insights that make marketing, public relations and/or digital engagement more efficient and effective.

Most CMOs will not need the intricate web of systems that the White House employs. Yet every marketer should be required to make situational awareness part of his/her daily workflow. It all needs to happen in a focused way, at every level and in both client and agency organizations. The good news is that situational awareness can be quite simple. The bad news is that very few people have created the daily systems or habits required to succeed. Here are three simple tools to add to your workday to get started.

Google Trends

Many marketers look first to Twitter and Facebook for consumer insights. However, they often overlook Google. This is a mistake. Far many more people search than those who engage on social networks. Therefore, Google knows more about you than your own mother. And, much the same, day in and day out it can tell us a ton about what we're thinking as a society. The Google Trends>Google Trends home page is about as good a barometer as any for what the US and the world is thinking about right now. I try to check into this page several times a day. In many ways, it's like a 24/7 supermarket checkout line.

Seesmic Web

One of my colleagues described Twitter as the new daily newspaper. A blogger who I met recently at a client event described it as Google with a brain. While Twitter's audience pales in comparison to Google or Facebook, there's no doubt it's a critical treasure trove of information for what's top of mind among opinion elites like the media, celebrities and influencers.

One of my favorite situational awareness tools is Seesmic Web, which only requires a browser to run and can sync with mobile device clients that the company has created for every platform. I keep the site open in a tab in my browser with various lists of people who serve as my window into the online world. Over time, this helps me build a deeper understanding of what makes this entire network and its micro communities tick.

ItsTrending

While it doesn't have the same ecosystem of tools that Twitter supports, as Facebook slowly opens up its data it's ushering in all kinds of new tools. Some of these are invaluable for helping us shape aggregated insights into the mindset of those who have elected to live more public lives on Facebook.

ItsTrending is one such tool. The free site data mines Facebook for the most popular links, images, news stories and videos on an array of topics. Several visits a day are all you need to develop a deeper sense for how Facebook themes and memes can impact your programs.

These are just three there are hundreds of others, many of them are free. What's key, however, is to find the right tools and package them into your workflow so that you have a gut feel for the various online environments you are engaging in daily and how the macro themes can play a role in success or failure.

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Steve Jobs introduces the Death Star

Mon, 31 May 2010 20:40:24 -0400

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Filed under: Steve Jobs, iPad

This is an idea so beautiful in its execution that you wonder why it hasn't been done before -- take Steve Jobs' rapturous introduction of the iPad, and put it over the footage from Star Wars of the Death Star briefing. It's a perfect geeky mashup -- I especially love Han Solo's indifference ("It's just a big iPod touch, Chewie"), and the random jeers from the audience. Also, Google Maps on the Death Star looks a little different than on my phone, but I guess that Pac Man stuff is cool.

Brilliant little short. It's funny how Apple product announcements have become almost as culturally significant as the products themselves. Of course, that's exactly the way Apple wants it, but it doesn't stop us from skewering the presentations with mashups like this.

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down the avenue: Snapshots From CES 2010

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:00:34 -0500

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Rafe-Needleman does CES (3). Rick Murray, Loic LeMeur and Steve Rubel. Rick-Murray Loic-LeMeur and Steve-Rubel (1). Chris Tolles, Renee Blodgett, Ponzi and Steve Miller. Chris-Tolles Renee-Blodgett Ponzi and Steve-Miller at CES 2010 ...
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Public engagement in the conversation age

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:40:39 -0500

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http://www.edelman.co.uk/public-engagement/

Fifteen essays on the new era of public engagement from Edelman's UK team.

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Why American Consumers Will Spend Lavishly Again

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:01:47 -0500

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The "new normal" the idea that when income, credit and confidence return, Americans will not return to our free-spending ways is an idea on the march, recruiting everyone from PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian to Wal-Mart CEO Mike Duke. It's spreading so fast it threatens to become the new orthodoxy.

I believe the argument is flawed. When Mike Duke says, "[P]eople are saving more, consuming less, and being more frugal and thoughtful in their purchases," he is right in the short term, but wrong in the long term. When income, credit, and confidence return, consumers will party like its 1999.

We've never had a good explanation for why consumers consume. So when they stop consuming, it's easy to think they will never start again. If pressed, we say consumption is about vanity, status, greed, cheap money and the consumers' own brand of irrational exuberance. Even in good times, we keep expecting consumers to come to their senses. In tough times, we think, but of course they will. A new normal is inevitable.

But it's wrong. As a classically trained anthropologist, I have spent many years doing ethnographic research in American homes. This represents hundreds and hundreds of hours of careful listening, two hours at a time. I know the American consumer as few do.

Let me introduce you to Susan Householder.* Here she is, standing in the entrance of her garage in a middle class suburb of Ridgefield, New York. She is surveying a mountain of stuff: bicycles, toboggans, a work bench, exercise equipment, canned goods, Christmas decorations, a picnic hamper, board games, lots of wrapping paper, several boxes of stem ware, and lots and lots of containers, contents unknown. There's so much stuff here, this ceased to be a garage a long time ago. It's now a storage locker, Susan's very own U-Store-It. (Cars are consigned to the drive way.) If we wanted a monument to all the spending Susan did in the 00s, this is it.

What created this mountain of stuff? Was it irrational exuberance and cheap money? It was not. This crowded garage springs from cultural motives. These things were not purchased to express vanity or pursue status. They were purchased to help Susan build a life.

Susan's been listening to Martha Stewart, so she now celebrates Christmas, Thanksgiving and birthdays with more formality, and yes, more stuff. Like everyone, she is cultivating new ideas of childhood for her kids and this requires another great wave of stuff. In the 18th century, the average American child had a wooden toy and an iron hoop. Susan's kids need many more things, including soccer boots, Karate outfits, paint kits, building blocks, skateboards, Xboxes, iPods, cell phones, and a ton of games and books.

Susan's biggest recent expenditure is the "great room" she and her husband installed a couple of years ago. Like millions of other Americans, Susan created one large, sumptuous room by combining her living room, dining room, and kitchen. It cost $45,000, a princely sum for this household, but it caused Susan not a flicker of remorse. After all, she has a new idea of entertainment. Susan had tired of being a "servant in my own home." When entertaining friends, she was forced to ferry food to and from the dining room, missing half the conversation, working as her own household staff. Now her guests sit at around the island in the great room, glass of wine in hand, looking on while Susan cooks brilliantly beneath halogen lighting. From 2005 to 2007, expenditures on interior renovation in American homes rose about 40 percent to $13 billion. Much of this was driven by Martha and the great room.

We could say this is irrational consumption, but actually it has a deeper, culture motive. Susan is fashioning her social life. To be sure, there is status seeking here. But there is also something richer and more cultural, as Susan works out new ideas of the "host," "guest" and "entertainment."

Susan has her eye on a purse by the designer Kate Spade. It's called the Cornelia Street Noel Blair and it costs $425. Susan has many purses, around 20 of them. So she doesn't need this bag...at all. This must be all about vanity, status and greed.

Not really. Susan loves this bag because it captures a concept of the person she thinks she might be becoming. Kate Spade has a positive genius for plucking new signals out of the noise of culture and turning them into something a woman can own, wear, and become. This is a luxury purchase in so far as it costs vastly more than a container needs to. But what makes it valuable for Susan is that it contains the idea of who she wants to be.

Right now Susan is hunkered down. She and her husband have scaled back expenditure. But this much is clear: The cultural motives of Susan's consumption have not changed. When circumstances allow, she will return to spending enthusiastically to fashion her children, her family, and herself. The "new normalists" missed one thing. Susan has real and substantial motives for spending. When income, credit, and confidence return, she's going to start spending again.

*Susan is a compilation of several consumers I have interviewed.

Grant McCracken holds a PhD from the University of Chicago in cultural anthropology. He is the author of Culture and Consumption, Culture and Consumption II, Plenitude, The Long Interview, Flock and Flow, and Transformation. He has been the director of the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the Royal Ontario Museum, a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School, and a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, and he is now a research affiliate at C3 at MIT. He has consulted widely in the corporate world, including the Coca-Cola Company, Diageo, IBM, IKEA, Chrysler, Kraft, and Kimberly Clark. He has served on marketing advisory boards for IBM and the Boston Beer Company. Basic Books will publish his new book, Chief Culture Officer, on December 1 this year.

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Profiles of social-media editors from media companies

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:01:16 -0500

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Posted by Guy Kawasaki

Craig Silverman compiled four profiles of social-media editors at large media companies. The four are Mathew Ingram (The Globe and Mail), Shirley Brady (BusinessWeek), Andy Carvin (NPR), and Jennifer Preston (New York Times). Each of them provided information about their best initiative so far and biggest lesson learned.

My favorite line is this understatement from Jennifer Preston:

This job is also a public role, and I was unprepared for that. Some people were very kind and helpful and welcoming, but there was a group who were not. I had to figure out what my role is on Twitter because every broken link I sent out was seen as a crime. In any event, you have to be resilient and have a sense of humor.

More social media information than even you can handle.

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Google Founder to PR Department: You Have Eight Hours of My Time This Year

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:01:28 -0500

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New Yorker columnist and author Ken Auletta released his latest book, "Googled: The End of the World As We Know It" earlier this month. The book, as the title implies, is a deep dive into the rocket ship paced rise of Google.

Auletta had access to Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and quickly found out they're not fans of PR. Engineers by background, the founders want to make every decision based on data, something not always possible in the "right brain" world of marketing.

In particular, Page told Google's PR department in 2008 - which then consisted of 130 people - that he would only give them "a total of eight hours of his time that year for press conferences, speeches, or interviews," wrote Auletta.

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Steve Rubel Calls Digital Curation' the Next Big Thing

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:20:50 -0500

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Steve Rubel penned a column for AdAge this morning in which he makes a very concise, clear-minded prediction: that digital curation will be the next big thing to shake the Web.

Via AdAge:

It's clear to me, at least, that digital curation both automated and human-powered will be the next big thing to shake the web. There's an evergreen need for those who can separate art from junk online. However, in this era, journalists won't be the only ones to fulfill it. Brands, as the examples above illustrate, can play here too.

We couldn't agree more. Indeed, much of the focus of FM's business over the last couple of years has been on developing and perfecting this very idea. As an example, Steve points out UPS's Popurls Brown Edition, a FM/Popurls-developed site that curates business content, a category particularly important to UPS. Thanks, Steve, for the shout-out!

Here is a small sample of FM's work in the digital curation category. Many of these take curation to another level with the addition of original content and community functionality.

Micrsoft's ExecTweets and ExecTweets IT
Intel's MyLifeScoop
Asus's WePC
Palm's TrendTracker
Many more

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Ryan Hasn't Changed: He Still Believes in the Jets

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:25 -0500

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Whew. The coach better not bail on the team.

As the Jets season has spiraled downward, the approach of their first-year coach, Rex Ryan, has not wavered.

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iPhone Tethering on AT&T: One Year and Counting

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:16:19 -0500

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Exactly one year ago, on November 6th, 2008, I was siting in the audience at the Web 2.0 Summit when AT&T Mobility President Ralph De La Vega shared good news from the stage: The company would soon be permitting iPhone users to tether their phones for use. I assumed he was a reliable source and blogged the glad tidings.

I also assumed that soon meant a matter of weeks or a month or two, so it was startling when Apple announced that iPhone OS 3.0 would support tethering seven months later and named 22 carriers who would be ready on day of launchand AT&T was not among them. The carrier merely said that it would support tethering at some unspecified datewhich turned out not to be early August. Most recently it's said that it needs to upgrade its network and that We expect to offer tethering in the future, which falls short of a promise that it will ever do so.

All along, of course, some folks have tethered their iPhones via hacks, software that runs only on jailbroken iPhones, and even a program that was very briefly available on Apple's App Store. But they've risked the wrath of AT&T, since tethering violates the carrier's current terms of service.

As far as I know, nobody at AT&T has publicly explained what its president was doing whipping up excitement for tethering when allowing it without time-consuming infrastructure improvements would have been imprudent. But it seems likely that it now wants to go to extreme measures not to get anyone's hopes up until it's absolutely, positively sure that tethering is ready to go. I hope that day comes soon.

But I also keep asking myself an ugly question: If the company still seems to be having trouble dealing with the quantity of data being consumed by iPhone users who can't tether, what does that say about the chances that it'll allow them to hog even more bandwidth via their laptops anytime soon?

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My Formidable Opponent - Stephen Colbert

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:56:44 -0500

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The Colbert Report

Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Formidable Opponent - Global Warming With Al Gore

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Colbert Report Full Episodes

Political Humor

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How To Make An Airplane iPhone Stand For Free Using Only On-Board Stuff

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:32:18 -0400

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The iPhone is an amazing travel companion, every time I take the plane I try to throw a couple of shows or movies on it and it really makes the whole trip a lot smoother. As I was flying to Paris today I remembered a pretty neat trick a German blogger came up with a couple of months ago, the free airplane iPhone stand.

It's completely free and you can realize it with on board available tools in less than 5 minutes. Here is what you're gonna need :

- An Air Sickness bag, if you don't have one ask for it, somehow they're usually pretty quick at giving them out.

- A pen or something sharp, like keys

1. Fold the bag at one third from the bottom, it should look something like this:

2.Then insert your iPhone in the bag all the way to the spot where it's folded

3. Using your pen go around the edges of the screen through the paper as to make a clear line on the paper, we're gonna use this to cut the paper later and let you see the screen.If you don't have a screen protector try to be extremely gentle not to damage your screen.

4. Gently rip off the square out of the bag

5. Using your headphone's jack try to find the plug on the side and make a little hole so your headphones can go through

You're all set !

All you need to do now is stuck the paper in front of you at the point where your tablet closes. Using the fold we made earlier behind the bag you're gonna be able to adapt the viewing angle.

It's pure hype and eco-friendliness, you should also get ready to have the stewardesses compliment you on your smartness and creativity (I get this every time)

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Are we Coming out of the Recession?

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:17:07 -0400

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The US stock market is soaring, commodity prices are on the rise, and there are signs that consumer confidence is growing. Ask the US government if the recession is ending and you'll hear a resounding yes as the Obama administration rushes to claim an early victory. Naysayers however point to the massive US debt and the 10% unemployment rate as signs that, even with the economic stimulus package, we still have a long way to go. Our info-graphics displays some leading economic indicators on the road to recovery.

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NBA Live By EA Sports Hits The App Store

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:40:14 -0400

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Electronic Arts just released an iPhone version of its NBA live game and claims it to be the:

Most realistic 5-on-5 action available for iPhones and iPod touch

Not hard to claim since there aren't many other Basketball games on the App Store at the moment

It features the authentic NBA teams and players and comes pre-packaged with 15 soundtracks from artists like Snoop Dog and Xzibit. All those goodies don't come cheap as you'll have to spend the classical $9.99 that EA sports charges for its games.

I personally find these kinds of games hard to play using on-screen controls, they are designed to be played with a console controller and it's just frustrating in the end.

[on the App Store]

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:16:27 -0400

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The Official White House Photostream posted a photo:

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, sit for a family portrait in the Green Room of the White House, Sept. 1, 2009. (Official White House Photo)

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Apple Store opening this Saturday in Manhasset, NY

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:24:11 -0400

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Filed under: Retail, Apple

The population of Apple Stores in the state of New York will grow by one this Saturday, October 17th. Apple is opening the new Manhasset location on Long Island, about 15 miles east of La Guardia International Airport.

This will be Apple's 14th store in the Empire State, and will have all of the typical features found at the stores -- the Genius Bar, t-shirted employees, an iPhone Activation Zone, and tables full of your favorite Apple toys. Of course, you can always hang out at the store for the free Wi-Fi and genial atmosphere; we're all expecting our very own David Winograd to be a constant fixture at the store.

We always love to see photos or video from Apple Store openings, so if you're there on Saturday at 10 AM ET and happen to get us some good shots, be sure to upload your work of art to tuaw.tumblr.com.

TUAW Apple Store opening this Saturday in Manhasset, NY originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Top 5 Sites to Discover iPhone Apps (Review)

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:48:10 -0400

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Anyone searching for the perfect app for, well, anything, can attest to the fact that iTunes is not the first place you're going to want to go to find it.

The iTunes App Store is fantastic, in that, as those ubiquitous commercials say, no matter what you need, there's an app for that, and you'll find it there. Thing is, if you're not quite sure what you're looking for, it can be a bit hard to wade through the thousands and figure out if you can go with a free app or need to pony up for a paid app.

Fortunately, there are several websites dedicated to sorting through iTunes for you, and we've taken a look at five of them to help you weigh the pros and cons. We considered including the Bing.com visual search in our list, but you need to have Microsoft's Silverlight installed. No one here felt like downloading it, so you're on your own with it, though we've heard it's quite nice.

See individual reviews after the fold.

The Review Grid

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The Sites

Apptism
Full index + community reviews
In beta, the site is "currently tracking, 91,132 apps."

Besides searches, Apptism gives you several default searches: Recent Activity, Most Activity, Popular Apps, Newest Apps, Updated Apps and an alphabetical listing. You can search by Free apps, and by seven different pricing categories for paid apps, in addition to category searches.

But what takes Apptism to the next level are all the other community-driven aspects.

First, there are the reviews. The site allows you to search user reviews, critics reviews or both, so you can determine before buying it whether it really has what you want and if the interface is what you're looking for. Then, it also has hundreds of thousands of screenshots and thousands of videos in the "Media" tab. The News tab has links to the latest news about iPhone apps, so you can read up on the latest from the blogosphere.

You can even build a custom Watch List, so you can track apps you're thinking about buying or apps you've built and the App Store has released.

AppStore HQ
Full index + blog reviews feed + discovery engine

The first thing you'll notice about AppStore HQ is the big feed down the middle of the home page - the latest blog posts about iPhone apps from around the blogosphere. On a recent day, the feed was topped by posts from The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Download Squad from just 10 minutes earlier. A few spots down, there was even a link to a Spanish-language post from Esfera iPhone.

Like Apptism, you can look through the apps based on pricing, category and the hottest and newest. You can also search according to how many stars the community has given an app and create custom searches.

148Apps
Full index + forums

The gimmick here is that you can always find out what the top 148 iPhone apps are.

The home page is a compilation of the latest app reviews. Each review gives the site's star rating, as well as a one-word descriptor from the reviewer, in addition to the beginning of the full review. The one-word descriptions, however, aren't just "good, poor, fair" - they include "mediocre," "complex" and "solo delight" - more telling, in fact, than even the star-based reviews by the site. The nice thing about giving both the site's stars and the user review is that you can see both sides of the story and decide if you need to do a little more research.

This weekend, for example, the first app review on the site was for IMP: Surf the Music - it showed 3 1/2 stars from 148Apps, but the user review was "Mediocre." In reading the user review further, it seemed she didn't have anything really bad to say about the app, just that she couldn't get hooked.

The site also has a full forum, blog, a listing of the apps with price drops.

App Shopper
Full index +update tracker

App Shopper doesn't have the forums and some of the other community features the other sites have, but it has a variety of RSS feeds and keeps track of all changes to apps.

The home page lists all the latest changes to apps, whether it's an update to the app, a price drop or something new. You can create wish lists and keep track of all the apps you own on custom lists. It has all the same sort of search capabilities of the other sites, as well as a "price drop" search engine.

The site has its own blog, too, but it's not updated every day and is not a listing of all the latest news about apps.

It does have a listing of the top 100 paid apps, which can be sorted by price, rating, its peak position on the list, how long it's been on the list and, of course, its current position on the list. So you can get a handle on what the iPhone community at large thinks are the best apps to shell out the cash for.

Appulo.us
Search engine + "unlimited trials"

Appulo.us bills itself as "The solution to a flawed App Store."

In beta, the idea behind Appulo.us is to fix what it sees as the main problem with the official App Store: Lots of crap applications getting approval that users spend good money on and then don't use. The site allows users to gain free, unlimited trials to apps before purchasing (illegally, we may add). The creators say they are not making any money off the site and it's simply to give both the quality developers and consumers a leg up. Quality developers are more likely to sell their apps if people can try them out first, and consumers won't waste money on a Soduku game "submitted by a 14-year-old writing his first program."

In short, this is a repository of cracked and pirated apps. Not much improvement over itunes, unless you cannot pay a buck for the real app and wanna get it for free. Use this site to find cool apps, but make sure to support developers.

AppSpot
iTunes web mirror

Like the App Store just as it is, but don't want to launch another application? Search no more. AppSpot is a web-based mirror of the App Store. It gives you everything the App Store does (or doesn't) with the benefit of being on the web instead of through iTunes.

That's it. Nothing fancy, but some folks like original recipe. Even so, if you want to purchase an app, you still have to launch iTunes.

Conclusion

While each site has its own little tweaks that make it a little different from the others, most of the sites listed above offer more or less the same options: The ability to search through apps based on several different criteria. If we had to rank them, however, this is what we'd say: AppStore HQ, 148Apps, Apptism, Appulo.us, App Shopper and then, finally, AppSpot.

And while some of the sites allow you to find the apps that have dropped their prices, perhaps the best way to keep track of this is, actually, an app - AppSniper. You can track which apps are on sale and even get notifications once an app you've been watching has dipped down to a price you're willing to pay. This is best for those sales that are only for a few hours and you'd miss if you check the other sites just once a day. And it's only 99 cents.

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Omni Group to partner with GTD creator

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:40:10 -0400

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As a result of the partnership between the software maker and The David Allen Company, the OmniFocus task manager will support the Getting Things Done methodology.

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PR is not Dead

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:16:19 -0400

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True public relations is a fundamental and helpful part of the communications mix. The issue I have with the question is that it usually comes from the marketing side - those people who have been pushing messaging at us in the first place. Raise your hand if you did PR the spammy way; in that case you need to reinvent yourself and your relevance to the business community.

For the rest of us - we are and have been on the value side of the conversations for a long time.

If you're familiar with junk science, you know that it usually leverages false syllogism to get you to believe certain points as facts when instead they are the construct of the group determined to stir you in a different direction. Personally, I've never been keen of personal agendas - they tend to have the lie built in the question.

Having said all that. I still get plenty of press release and pitches from practitioners who target me blindly. Do take a moment to ask yourself - is a blanket email worth getting tagged as spam for the duration? Today every professional has the tools to listen to online conversations, why not use them?
Knowing what you're listening for and what to do with your new knowledge can make a difference.

Practicing public relations can lead to a very successful thought leadership program, for example. John Bell at Ogilvy Digital PR jotted down a few ideas for the skills a public relations pro will need in the future. Interesting that one year ago a commenter would push back on digital - more and more people consume their information online. Also, the reason why traditional or mainstream media is still on everyone's radar is that it reaches larger numbers - it scales better, for now.

However, we should not think either/or. Can we stop debating that already? It's both. A couple of weeks ago, I posted about the skills I felt a PR candidate would need. How would such a candidate demonstrate value to the organization?

don't be afraid to draw a direct line of correlation between PR activities and leads - in digital environments this is possible and a must. Knowledge of search engine optimization techniques is also key - mind you, this means you tag your content truthfully, to be found more easily for what you indeed offer
educate the organization on the value of speaking with its publics - this is especially helpful in the event of a crisis, which online may happen more frequently and need a faster response
facilitate conversations with subject matter experts and influencers - whether those be mainstream media or another group
monitor, listen to, and know what to listen for in conversations - helping insert valuable content at the appropriate time with honesty and transparency
train and educate technical experts and spokespeople on the importance of being available as resources (John also mentioned it)

The PR industry needs to get with the new reality of conversation - but so does its marketing sibling, and in a big way. I sat in the front row for Brian Halligan's catchy statement at the Inbound Marketing Summit. Good on Brian for elaborating further with the post. I still don't buy the premise. Also see Todd Defren's reaction.

While I have plenty more ideas, I'd like to hear from you. What else do you see in the future of PR?

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Your First Day with Evernote

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:16:10 -0400

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I've written many times before about Evernote. I love this program. It is my brain's memory on steroids. I have over 6000 notes in it now. And I keep finding ever more uses for it.

I thought I'd write a quick plan for someone's first day with Evernote. This is really meant for after you've intalled the client to your computer, so this picks up after you've gone to Evernote's Get Started Page and created an account and downloaded and installed a client for your primary computer.

And I'm not trying to write step-by-step directions. I'll rely on Evernote's Help to aid you. If you get stuck anywhere, comment here and I'll either try and answer, or add the update the post appropriately.

And you may want to check out Evernote's own Getting Started page. And be sure to read their manuals too. They are available for your Mac or Windows clients (PDF files).

Notes: I am using the Beta of Windows 3.5 for my screenshots. The Mac version looks very similar.

Windows users are currently in flux now (October 2009). While version 3.1 is the current stable product, there is a beta out now for 3.5. That is what I am using. It's safe to start with 3.1 now if you want, and convert later to 3.5 when it is released in final form.

Readers of this blog will have seen many of these ideas in previous posts--I just thought it might be useful to gather them all together in one post. The ideas here are a compilation of the ideas in Evernote's website, blog post, documentation and the ideas and insights of many users including myself.

And this may seem like a long post, but only about a third of it are things you really should do. The rest are just some ideas to help you be more productive with Evernote.

Major Steps

Make your First Note

Now that you have your Evernote application open in front of you, click the New Note button and type in a quick note. Mine was "My First note in evernote" and it is still there so I know when I first played with Evernote.

Find a PDF file on your computer and drag it into Evernote. Now you have two notes.

Find a photo with some words in it (like on a sign) and drag that into Evernote.

Switch to another application, and press your keyboard's Print Screen button twice. Evernote will capture a shot of the current screen.

You now have four notes in Evernote.

Search

Type in text you know to be in one or more notes and explore how search works. You may not be able to search on words that are in the photograph you added, because the image processing takes place on Evernote's servers. For that, you need to Sync.

Do your first Sync

Every so often, Evernote's application clients synchronize with their servers. This transfers your notes up their own database. This allows you to access the information via the web, as well as have other clients running on other PC's but have them have the same information. It also give you some backup comfort. If your local hard drive dies, your data is still on the web (except for local notebooks, we'll discuss next).

To do your first Sync, click the Sync button. Or, on the Windows client, press F9.

Create Notebooks

When you first installed Evernote, it prompted for the name of a default Notebook. Right now, that is the only notebook you have.

I recommend creating at least one other. Go to File menu, New Notebook. Give your new notebook the name, Inbox and make it the default notebook. Later, we will have notes coming in from various sources (e-mails, Twitter etc.) and they will all land here first. You will be able to see them here, and then move them to another notebook.

If you want to store information that is never uploaded to Evernote servers, when you create a new notebook, you can designate the new notebook as local only.

Hold off creating more notebooks until later when you figure out how you want to use Evernote. Of course, you can always delete notebooks later if you want. There is a limit of 100 notebooks.

Create a Tag

In the header of your note is an area that says "Not Tagged". Click in it and you type in the name of a tag or tags you want to use to categorize your note.

As you built your collection of notes, and amass tags, a list forms on the left of your screen with all your tags and the number of notes they are used in.

There is a limit of 10,000 tags.

Familiarize Yourself with the Web Version

Fire up your web browser and go to http://evernote.com and sign-in.

You'll now see the web version of Evernote. If ever you are on another computer and need something in Evernote, you can get it through this web site.

Play around in this a bit while you are here. When you are done, leave it open on your computer.

Setup Web Clippers

Evernote Web Clippers let you grab the URL's of web pages your are viewing, or the entire web page itself, and copy it into Evernote.

There are versions that will work with the major browsers. They let you assign the web page to a Notebook and assign tags as well.

You can download them from here.

Figure out uses

Take a look at this list of things people are doing with Evernote. Which ones would be useful to you?

Just Use It

Commit to using Evernote for the next few weeks as you go about your normal activities.. Capture web pages to it, make notes of phone calls, record the little details of your life as you go through your day.

Eventually, you'll need one of those pieces of data and find it in Evernote. After that first "Ah Ha!" moment, you'll be hooked on Evernote.

Optional but Useful Steps

There are a lot of ways to get data into Evernote. The more data you grab, the more useful Evernote will be. These next few ideas are other ways to get information into Evernote.

Import Files

Before I began using Evernote, each day I would start a new file in Notepad, and keep notes as the day went on of things I needed to do do, or things I did, and notes on phone calls etc.

I also had a huge folder of documents I'd scanned in with my flatbed scanner going back several years.

So one of the first things I did in Evernote was to go to the Tool menu, Folder Import. This lets you designate a folder and import all the files in it, and even all the files in that folders sub-folder. Soon I had all my daily text files and years worth of important documents in Evernote. Since my scanner produced a searchable PDF, my important documents were searchable.

Scanner

I've had a flat bed scanner for years but as more and more of my scanning was of documents more then photos, I started coveting a sheet fed scanner. Evernote's partner Fujitsu has their Scansnap scanners. A similar but cheaper little alternative I stumbled into at Costco one day, is the Neat Company scanners.

I'd seen their kiosks at airports but never stopped to look closely at them. Reading the package at Costco, I realized it was a pretty good value. Their little portable one didn't have a hopper; you have to feed in a document one at a time, but it is powered off the USB port and came with a little case. And it only cost $150. Seasrch around online for the NeatReceipts printer. There are versions for both the Mac and PC.

Neat's own software is pretty good, but I prefer to scan the documents into PDF and into Evernote. See Copy to Evernote Folder heading below to see how I get the PDF into Evernote. For other scanners, you can usually choose the software to send scans to. The link earlier shows how to link a Fujitsu scanner to Evernote, but the concept is the same for some other scanners too.

Whether you use a sheet fed scanner or a flat bed scanner, having a scanner with Evernote lets you put all your phicial documents into Evernote and make them searchable. You can get a handle on all those bills, statements, and important documents that arrive by mail.

Copy to Evernote Folder

My NeatRecepts Scanner cannot scan a PDF directly into Evernote (that I've found yet), so instead I scan to a folder on my desktop. I called mine "a_scan_to_evernote" so it shows up at the top of any folder listing of My Documents folder.

I mentioned above, Evernote's ability to do a Folder Import. One of the settings there is to designate a folder to be watched. When anything new appears in a watched folder, Evernote automatically imports it. I designated my "a_scan_to_evernote" folder as a watched folder, so any new scans go right into Evernote.

Plus I have a copy of the PDF file on my desktop to easy access.

I also added a shortut to my SendTo menu in Windows, so I can point at any file on my PC and Send it to the "a_scan_to_evernote" folder and thus, into Evernote.

If I download a file I want in Evernote, I download it to the "a_scan_to_evernote" folder.

Periodically I free up space by deleting the contents of "a_scan_to_evernote" since the material is already in Evernote. Or I could back it up, giving myself even a further level of protection in addition to Evernote's wonderful data redundancy, before I delete them off my hard drive.

E-Mail

Every Evernote account comes with its own e-mail address. This is not an e-mail address you want to share with anyone; it is for you alone.

Any email you BCC to that e-mail address ends up in Evernote. So if you get an important e-mail just forward it to Evernote or if you are sending one, BCC Evernote.

Sure, you still have the e-mail in your e-mail program and can search for it there, but it is nice to have just one place to search for all your information.

You an find your e-mail address in your client. If you cannot, it is also in the web client, on the Settings page.

Make a contact in your e-mail program so you can easily send your Evernote important e-mails.

Setup to Text Message into Evernote

Many mobile phones can send text messages to e-mail addresses. See if yours can, by creating a contact in your cell phone for Evernote with your Evernote e-mail address.

If you can send a text to Evernote, then it makes it real easy to shoot off a short reminder to yourself, or take down someones phone number or other bit of information.

Link to Twitter

If you are a Twitter user, you can send Twits to Evernote. See this Evernote Blog item explaining how to set it up. Then you can send a Twit to to Evernote simply by including @myEN in your twit. You can send confidential messages direct messaging your Evernote account from Twitter.

Link to Google Reader

Keeping with our theme of its best to send all the information you gather to Evernote, there is a way to send blog posts you read in Google Reader directly into Evernote. Another Evernote blog post tells you how.

Import from Delicious and Google Notebook

When I first started Evernote, I had over 4000 bookmarks in Delicious. I used Delicious and Evernote side-by-side for a while, but as I grew into my philosophy that it is best to have all my information in one place, I decided to import the bookmarks from Delicious.com into Evernote.

Fortunately, Evernote makes it easy. In the Web Client, Settings page, there is an import ability currently letting you import from Delicious or Google Notebook.

Import from OneNote

Microsoft makes a product like Evernote called OneNote. A lot of new Evernote uses are former OneNote users. If you are one of them, you can import your OneNote information using the Files Menu, Import, Microsoft OneNote 2007 menu item.

Install on other computers

Do you have a home computer and a work computer? Or a home desktop and a Netbook you carry around? Or a PC and a Mac?

You can install Evernote clients on each, and it will sync your data from Evernote's servers. When you add a note on one computer, it will show up on the others.

Not only is this convenient, but it makes your data really safe. You'll have copies of your data on each of the computers, as well as the Evernote servers.

Install on your phone

This is what makes Evernote really powerful. There are clients for many of the popular Smart phones. Even if there isn't one for your phone (like my Samsung Instinct), there is a wonderful mobile web page.

Using the Mobile web browser saved me $120 one of the first times I used it.

Set Evernote up a Task Manager

Evernote was never meant to be a task manager. That hasn't stopped people from using it as one. While it lacks the ability to sound alarms or trigger text messages like Google Calendar and others do, it still can be quite useful.

I created a long blog post saying how I'd set up Evernote to manage my tasks.

And if you are an user of Getting Things Done (GTD) from David Allen, there are a couple I've found who have created strategies for using Evernote and GTD.

"Star" favorite notes

I saw a twit once with an Evernote user wishing there was way to Star items in Evernote like you can in Gmail and other Google products. I had been thinking along similar lines.

I discovered a way to do something close, and documented it in a blog post.

I've made the Saved Search for starred items my default view in my mobile Evernote view on my phone. Very useful.

Use Keyboard Shortcuts

There are shortcut keys for creating a new note that makes those tasks quicker and easier. I found this cheat sheet listing them. I haven't tried them all, but the Create Note and Paste into Note ones are very useful.

Sharing your Notebooks

Since you have accumulated all this wonderful information in one place, you may want to share some of it with the entire world, or just a group of your own choosing.

Evernote has the ability to share folders as they have documented originally here and then with new abilities here. And another phase of sharing abilities is coming.

I use Shared Notebooks to share bookmarks on topics I frequently blog about and links relevant to the weekly "Tech Family" column I write for the News & Messenger Newspaper and their web site InsideNova.com.

Consider Premium

As powerful as the free Evernote is, for as little as $45 a year, or $5 a month, you can get even more power by buying a Premium subscription to Evernote.

You get the ability to let others edit your shared posts, more uploads per month (from 40 meg to 500 megabytes), the ability to upload more file types, and better security.

If you are wondering how Evernote can make money while giving away the product to the vast majority of their users, a recent New York Times article addressed just that.

Cool Tip about Premium: in one of their recent podcasts, the CEO said if you need Premium for a just a month, go ahead and activate it for a month at $5, and cancel at the end of the month. If you need it again in the future, you can turn it back on. They don't mind.

There are caveats. If you store a file type the Free Service does not support while you are a Premium user, when are are again a Free user, you won't be able to update it.

Consider some of their partners

Evernote has an API (a programming interface) so we are starting to see applications designed to work with Evernote. They often blog about them.

Learn More

Be sure to read Evernote's Getting Started page and the manuals for your Mac or Windows clients (PDF files). And watch their many informative videos. And participate in their Forums to ask questions, and maybe even answer a few for others.

Check my shared bookmarks for more Evernote resources.

Or search Google for "Evernote".

Or Google for "Evernote my_profession" to find links like this for Doctors or this for Journalists and their use of Evernote.

Keep up to Date

Evernote is a very dynamic product. While it already does a lot, it could do so much more. Thankfully, the Evernote developers seem to be working hard on improving their products.

Evernote makes it easy to keep up to date on what they are doing with a blog, podcasts, more then one Twitter account and a Facebook account.

And of course, you an also subscribe to this blog, and follow me on Twitter. While I am not with Evernote, I follow them closely and pass along the best of what I learn.

Tell someone about Evernote

The more users Evernote has (especially Premium users) the more they will be motivated to keep upgrading. If you find Evernote useful, tell people about it in your own blog, Twitter, Facebook or by screaming it from the corner.

Or you can use their website to Tell a friend.

Have Fun

I hope this was useful to you. Leave your own ideas in comments, or if you find anything I need to change let me know too.

Note: This is one of my Reference posts. I'll be updating it over time, and keeping it around for future Evernote new users.

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Happy Birthday Bo!

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:00:16 -0400

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Malia said it best, "Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!"

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visit to the White House on March 15, 2009. Bo came back to live at the White House in April.
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Ten Teen Entrepreneurs To Watch

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:40:09 -0400

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Kids these days. It seems like they're writing HTML before they learn how to talk. And a lot of them are starting companies before they graduate from high school.

Here's a list of some of our favorite teen entrepreneurs. And please keep in mind that there are lots of startups we've yet to hear about. So if you are a young entrepreneur, make sure to leave a comment below and add you bio and startup information to CrunchBase.

Jessica Mah

Jessica Mah, 19, is currently the CEO and Co-Founder behind Indinero, a Mint.com for small businesses. Mah started her first startup at 13. Last year, she founded internshipIN.com, a site to help high school and college kids find internships in their area. Now, at 19, Mah is finishing up her Computer Science degree from the University of California, Berkley, as well as being the CEO of Indinero.

Ashley Qualls

Ashley Qualls, 19, started WhateverLife when she was 14, a site designed to give MySpace users free Myspace layouts and HTML tutorials. She employs both her mom, and her friends who do graphics for her. Qualls started WhateverLife in 2004 as a hobby, and now has turned into a business, with her site getting anywhere from 150,000 to 360,000 daily page views.

Donny Ouyang

Donny Ouyang, 17, started his first business in 2006 called Kinkarso Network. Kinkarso Network operates a number of web properties including; BattleForums.com, HostBright.net, ChristianAvenue.org, etc. Ouyang has been featured in Entrepreneur, PC Magazine, Retire At 21, Internet Entrepreneurs, and many other sites.

Sam Purtill

Sam Purtill is one of the founding engineerings of YouNoodle, a service that lets users follow start-ups that they are interested in and predict success of start-up teams based on analysis of historical data about qualities of the team's founders and other information. Purtill originally built the site, and has been with the company since September 2007. Sam placed his previous project, ClassOwl, on hold to join YouNoodle, despite taking the idea to a product in less that six months. He also has worked on various design projects in Romania.

Grant Bell & Robert Day

Grant Bell is a teenage entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Tomorrow's Web, an online network dedicated to supporting and engaging with young people with an internet in the web, technology and entrepreneurship. Bell is also the Founder of Pitchie, a stealth startup.

Robert Day is the co-founder of Tomorrow's Web as well. Day has worked for various web companies such as ChannelFlip and Be Broadband's OpenHub.

Mark Bao

Mark Bao, 17, is an internet entrepreneur based in Boston, MA. Bao is the founder of Avecora and Ramamia. In August 2009, Bao sold his product, Avecora OnDemand, to Branchr Advertising, and renamed the product Atomplan, which he is still the acting CEO of. In the past, Mark has been involved with the Facebook Platform, launching numerous applications, selling three applications, and organising the Facebook developer meetings in Boston, as well as the main event Facebook Developer Garage Boston.

Zachary Collins & Dustin Snider

Zachary Collins and Dustin Snider are the co-founders of Yazzem, a site which allows anyone to share their thoughts about anything that interests them by starting and joining topics. In July 2009, Collins sold Twtbase.com, a database of Twitter apps, and is also home to the very first Twitter applications search engine.

Patrick DeVivo

Patrick DeVivo is a blogger and entrepreneur in New York City. He founded Youth Bloggers Network in May 2007, and then sold the site to Teens in Tech Networks in March of 2009.

Of course, there are entrepreneurs that started their companies at a young age, and since then have grown their businesses. myYearbook co-founders Catherine Cook and Dave Cook started the company in 2005. Catherine is currently a student at Georgetown University, while also working on myYearbook's growth and features. myYearbook is one of the largest teen oriented social networks, getting about 3 million unique page views per month according to Compete.

Disclosure: I am the Founder and CEO of Teens in Tech Networks. Teens in Tech Networks acquired Youth Bloggers Network in March 2009. Youth Bloggers Network was founded by Patrick DeVivo, who is mentioned above.

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Tweetie 2 for iPhone (iTunes Link)

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:48:11 -0400

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Trust me, the bar has been raised.

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