Startups AppBank: Facebook App Template and Cash For Non-Developers Eight years ago job titles like "social media marketer" and even "community manager" were few and far between. As netizen and social networking populations have grown over the years, so too have the number of opportunities to earn money online. Enter AppBank - the first crowd-sourced paid content service for Facebook. With AppBank, users build… Dana Oshiro View comments
Google Kutano Launches First Third-Party Client for Google Sidewiki Kutano, a browser-based Twitter client that also aggregates comments on Twitter about the website a user is currently visiting, just launched the first client for Google's Sidewiki project. Sidiwiki allows users who have a special version of the Google Toolbar installed to annotate any web page and comment on any blog post. These comments, however… Frederic Lardinois View comments
NYT The Best Slide Deck in the World: Explaining Health Care Reform Social slide deck site SlideShare will announce today the winners of its 3rd annual "Best Presentation in the World" contest. A panel of business presentation expert judges selected one deck as the grand prize winner out of 3,750 entries from over 130 countries. That grand prize winner was titled Healthcare Napkins All and was created by visual… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News It's Complicated: Warner Music Comes Back to YouTube Warner Music, which had removed its videos from YouTube after licensing talks with Google broke down last year, just announced that is has reached a new deal with YouTube and that Warner's music videos will once again appear on YouTube. The partnership, according to the official announcement, covers the complete Warner catalog and "includes… Frederic Lardinois View comments
E-Books Barnes & Noble's eBook Store Launch Successful, But Hurt by Absence of eReader Hardware When Barnes & Noble launched its eBook store, it immediately attracted a lot of potential customers. According to Compete's Dillon McGovern, more than four times as many people visited the eBook section on B&N's website than the Amazon Kindle store during the first week after the launch in July. After just about a month, though, these numbers… Frederic Lardinois View comments