Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:BlackBerry addict Mark Zuckerberg pans his prerelease iPhone 4 — Facebook chief executive and religious BlackBerry user Mark Zuckerberg got a test drive of Apple’s latest iPhone over the weekend. (While his status update just mentions an iPhone, our sources confirm it was a new iPhone 4 …
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:I Want My @MTV: Cable Network Seeks Its First Twitter Jockey — If you can remember MTV 1.0 personalities like Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood and J. J. Jackson, you may already be too old to contend for a new hybrid on-air and online position that the cable network is...
DeWitt Clinton:More thoughts on URL shorteners. — What is a URL shortener? — You’ve all seen short URLs before — the links to tinyurl.com, bit.ly, wp.me, etc., recently popularized as a workaround to fit more content into smaller spaces, most notably within Twitter’s 140 character limits.
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:How Insurance Companies Will Influence Rates Based On Your Tweets: Social Insurance Rates — Expect insurance and wellness companies to monitor social data, then reward -and penalize member actions. — Companies Want Accurate Customer Data and Social Data Promises a Gold Mine
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Foursquare Begins Testing An “Add To Foursquare” Button With WSJ — One surefire way to know that a service is doing well is when you see their buttons start appearing all over the web. We’ve seen it with Facebook, we’ve seen it with Twitter (Tweetmeme buttons), and now we’re going to...
John Battelle / John Battelle’s Searchblog:An Open Letter to Apple Regarding The Company’s Approach to Conversation with Its Peers and Its Community — Dear Apple: — We miss you. — Once upon a time, back before you got real popular, you used to take part in the public square. You may have been less...
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:It’s Time For An Open Database Of Places — With last week’s declaration by Twitter that it intends to start identifying places based on the coordinates of geo-coded Tweets, the location land rush is in full swing. A long list of companies including Twitter, Google, Foursquare, Gowalla …
Alexia Tsotsis / SFWeekly Tech:AT&T Fail: Coachella Has an iPhone App But No Actual iPhone Service — There’s a reason we prefer to be chained to our computers. While complaints about AT&T service are a dime a dozen, we hear the situation is particularly dire at this year’s Coachella music festival …
Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:As Facebook’s f8 Developer Conference Approaches, a Recap of Its Rumored Launches — Facebook’s first f8 developer conference in two years is happening next Wednesday, and it will feature big announcements from the company. Here’s our look at the latest hints and rumors about what might be launched.
Joe Hall / Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim:Cup of Joe: Exclusive Interview With MySpace’s Mona Nomura — A few months ago I started following Mona on Twitter. The best way to describe Mona is quite simply, fun. She has a ton of fun with social media and always seems to be “on”. Because of which,...