Government Lifehacker Gina Trapani to Aid White House in Goal Setting Lifehacker's founding editor Gina Trapani has just announced that she's joining Expert Labs, the government-oriented independent think tank led by Anil Dash and funded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her first project: deploying her Twitter-based decision making software called ThinkTank for the White House. The… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Startups Is Humanism the Future of Sales and Conversion? There's a reason why vanity URLs, personalized profile pages and recommendation systems are so popular. To a customer or site visitor, there's nothing more interesting than themselves. As the CEO of web tracking and sales conversion site Genius.com, former CMO of online meeting tool WebEx and author of Sales 2.0 for Dummies, David Thompson knows… Dana Oshiro View comments
Apple Companies on Wikipedia: Apple's Fans Get it Right According to a new study by Milan-based consultancy firm Lundquist, Apple has the best Wikipedia entry among Fortune Global 500 companies. Lundquist ranked Wikipedia pages according to the quality of the data in the infobox, page features like links and citations and the quality and availability of page sections like company history and… Frederic Lardinois View comments
NYT Why is Google Afraid of Facebook? Part II: Facebook's Traffic Passes Yahoo Social network Facebook has passed Yahoo! and is now nearing Google in the #1 spot for most monthly unique visitors from the US, according to traffic analyst firm Compete. Compete just published its January numbers this morning and reported that nearly 134 million US web users visited Facebook last month. Google saw nearly 148… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
AOL Will AOL Use Seed to Fuel Its Hyperlocal News Site? AOL is continuing with its push to create content on a massive local scale, according to a story by the Silicon Valley Insider. The story says that AOL is looking to "expand Patch, its network of local news blogs, from 30 sites to 'hundreds', by the end of 2010." AOL recently announced a similar 0-to-60 sort of initiative with its attempt to cover… Mike Melanson View comments