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Scott Goodstein

An Open Letter to FCC Chairman Genachowski -- Take Action and Stop Political Text Spam

Scott Goodstein | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Chairman Genachowski, Text Messages, Fcc, Text Message Ads Ban, Wisconsin Recall, Wisconsin Recall Elections

Chairman Genachowski,

You have heard from us on several occasions that text message spam is overwhelming Americans and is disrupting the political process. From the presidential campaign to local elections, nefarious operatives are taking advantage of loopholes to spam voters, and now they have struck in the most notable race...

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Bruce Kushnick

I Challenge Verizon to a Public Debate: Piano Optional

Bruce Kushnick | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Glenn Gould, Phone Bill, Broadband, Deregulation, Johann Sebastian Bach, Public Policy, Telephone Companies, Verizon

Dear Verizon,

I challenge you to a public debate about our findings in our last report "Verizon's State-Based Financial Issues & Tax Losses" and the materials in our previous HuffPost articles -- and please make sure there's a tuned piano in the room.

Bob...

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Alexander Howard

US CTO Looks to Scale Agile Thinking and Open Data to Improve Citizen-Centric Government

Alexander Howard | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Gov 2.0, Todd Park, Web 2.0, White House, Agile Government, Digital Government, Government 2.0, Open Data, Open Government, Us Cto, Video

In the 21st century, federal government must go mobile, putting government services and information at the fingertips of citizens, said United States Chief Technology Officer Todd Park in a wide-ranging interview this week: "That's the first digital government result, outcome, and objective that's desired."

To achieve that vision, Park...

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Donna Estes Antebi

Facebook: I've Been Hacked

Donna Estes Antebi | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Adam D'Angelo, Chris Cox, Chris Kelly, Dustin Moskovitz, Jeff Rothschild, Mark Zuckerberg, Bad Customer Service, Counterfeit Goods, Facebook, Fraud, Hacking, Nike, Online Safety, Piracy, Privacy, Scams, Shoes, Social Networking

Hackers have a far better understanding of the weakness of Facebook's privacy issues than any of us. Right now, thanks to some devious cyberjerks, many of my Facebook friends think I'm an obnoxious, knockoff Nike shoe vendor. Donna Antebi: Shoe Hawker.

The nightmare began when I logged-on...

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Karthika Muthukumaraswamy

Let's Put the Media Back in Social Media

Karthika Muthukumaraswamy | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Community Facebook, Facebook Friendship, Facebook Loneliness, Online Community, Social Media Community, Social Media Friendship, Social Media Loneliness, Social Networking

Unless you've been living under a rock -- or well, Facebook bubble -- the last few years, you've heard the story of the woman that posted suicidal thoughts on Facebook and ended up killing herself, uninterceped by her "friends."

Unfortunately, that was no solitary case.

...

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Women & Co

Promote Your Business: 6 Ways Technology Can Help

Women & Co | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Business, Business Social Media, Companies, Digital, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Promotion, Running a Business, Small Business, Social Media, Social Media Tips, Start-Ups, Starting a Business, Technology

For Women & Co., by Linda Kempin, Founder and Owner, Boost My Web Traffic

For many business owners, using technology to promote their business is limited to creating -- and often overinvesting in -- a great-looking website. But digital promotion isn't just about having a website...

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Mindy Utay

Do You Love Your Smartphone?

Mindy Utay | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg Married, Facebook, Iphone, Smartphones
Mark Zuckerberg has buckled to tradition and joined the ranks of the married -- and he let the world know the change in his "relationship status" by announcing it on Facebook. Just few years ago, the same announcement would have been sent, via press release, to the media and announced...

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Leah Busque

The Role (and Future) of Social Reputation

Leah Busque | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Online Shopping, Social Reputation, Ecommerce, Online Shopping Social Repuation, Trust Online Shopping

We find our homes on Craigslist, score our most treasured items with eBay, send gifts via Amazon, and order dinner through GrubHub. There's no denying it, we're all creatures of the Internet now. Online transactions, once relegated to leaps of faith,...

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Lilia Ziamou

Museum Apps: How User Interface Can Create a Powerful User Experience

Lilia Ziamou | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Museum Apps, American Museum Of Natural History, Interactive Art Museums, Interactive Museums, Museums Technology

Museums are increasingly introducing new mobile apps. These apps typically focus on the museums' entire collection and enable visitors to browse and obtain information on the works featured in the collection. While such functionality is valuable for both visitors and non-visitors alike, apps have the potential to be not merely...

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Terry Connelly

Top 10 Reasons Why Facebook's IPO Went Badly

Terry Connelly | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Facebook IPO, Golden Gate University, Mark Zuckerberg, Terry Connelly, Executive-Pinstripe-Hoody

10. It came to market too late to begin with! The last private equity round Facebook raised valued the company at about $50 billion. And the current market is taking the public shares back toward that level, which is 50 percent below the initial IPO pricing.

9....

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Jonathan Littman

Four Tech Tales of Doom: Goodbye HP, Dell, Nokia and RIM

Jonathan Littman | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Dell Computers, Meg Whitman, Research In Motion, Apple, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Ipad, Iphone, Lenovo, Nokia

Thirty-five years ago Kenneth Olsen, CEO of the pioneering DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), stood poised to dominate computing for another generation. The brilliant Mr. Olsen had profited immensely by going small -- building efficient mini-computers in the age of hulking mainframes. By the mid 1980s DEC's revenues were peaking and...

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Brian Cute

Ushering in the Dot-NGO Boom: Protecting the Online Interests of Non-Governmental Organizations

Brian Cute | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: .Com, Brian Cute, Corporation For Assigned Names And Numbers, India, Internet, Kenya, Ngo, Nonprofits, Public Interest Registry

Three little letters. That's all it takes to truly make an impact for global communities online. When the Internet as we know it first launched back in 1985, domain names like .COM, .NET and .ORG quickly became a natural part of our vernacular. Every TV commercial now touts a website;...

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Douglas Crets

You Want Disrupt With That? Why New York is Good for Silicon Valley Tech

Douglas Crets | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Fred Wilson, Bizspark, Daryll Mcdade, Entrepreneurs, Ideas, Innovators, Microsoft, Startups

New York City. City that has beaten the pants off of me. City where, even with the pants beaten off, I still got up off the floor, put my pants back on, one leg at a time, and made the morning train.

City of urban street poetry -- pigeons arching...

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Sheryl Sandberg

A New Metaphor for Your Career

Sheryl Sandberg | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Sheryl Sandberg, Career Advice, Careers, Commencement Central, Facebook, Video, Women And Technology, Women In Business

This post is drawn from remarks by Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, on Harvard Business School Class Day, Wednesday, May 23, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

It's an honor to be here today to address HBS's distinguished faculty, proud parents, patient guests, and most importantly, the class of 2012.

Today...

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John Paul Caponigro

Correct Perspective With the App Front View

John Paul Caponigro | Posted May 30, 2012

Read More: Frontview, iPhone Apps, Iphone, Iphone Photo Apps, Iphone Photography, Perspective Correction, Photography
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How many times have you wished you could quickly straighten lines in an image that have been distorted by perspective? Being able to control perspective is particularly important for architectural photography and it can be used to make stronger compositions in all images.

How...

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Hulya Aksu

Using Social Media Networking to Get Media Attention for Your Startup

Hulya Aksu | Posted May 30, 2012

Read More: Bootstrapping, Getting Media Coverage, Networking, Pr, Press Releases, Social Media Pr, Startups

As a member of an invitation-only technology CEO community in Washington D.C., I get together every month with like-minded individuals to network, listen to expert speakers, and potentially discover my next big co-founder or investor in our area. During last week's summit, the predominant theme was marketing. We listened as...

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Penny C. Sansevieri

How to Keep Your Website Optimized for Google: An Interview With Simon Heseltine

Penny C. Sansevieri | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Business Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Seo, Small Business Marketing, Website-Optimization

I spent a bit of time recently with Simon Heseltine. He is the director of search engine optimization for AOL and Huffington Post. I met Simon at an event a few months ago and I have been eager and looking forward to this interview.

PS: I was talking to...

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Allison Graham

Capitalizing on Facebook (Not on the NASDAQ)

Allison Graham | Posted May 31, 2012

Read More: Facebook IPO, Facebook Ads, Facebook Capitalization, Facebook Marketing, General Motors Facebook

Conversations about how brands can use Facebook as an effective marketing tool have been hijacked the last few weeks. Between Facebook's IPO and GM's announcement to claw back $10 million in Facebook advertising, it's been easy for marketers to get side-tracked from the conversation that matters: How can Facebook be...

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Julie Flynn Badal

Social Media and the Promise of Eternal Life

Julie Flynn Badal | Posted May 30, 2012

Read More: Facebook Obituaries, Colleagues On Facebook, Facebook, Facebook Colleagues, Facebook Friends, Obituaries On Facebook

I learned the news one wet December morning.

My daughter had just gone down for a nap and it was time to have a cup of tea and troll my Facebook newsfeed in search of the spiritual aphorisms my Equinox yoga instructor posts after lifting them from...

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Christel Quek

Gina Romero on Women Entrepreneurs on the Web (WeOW)

Christel Quek | Posted May 30, 2012

Read More: Women In Tech, Asia, Gina Romero, Google, Small Business, Women Entrepreneurs, Women In Business, Women In Technology

Being a female entrepreneur is certainly challenging. While the number of women entrepreneurs and leaders has increased steadily over the years, they still face significant challenges in a male-dominated workplace.

I spoke with representatives of several inspiring women-led businesses in Asia about the various barriers they had to overcome...

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