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In the tradition of the late great Johnny Carson’s Carnac the Magnificent providing answers before the question is asked. Answer: “Jornada, iPaq, webOS”. Question: “Name three mobile brands HP has killed”.

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There are a relatively small number of apps that determine whether or not a mobile platform is “feature complete” from the end user’s point of view. Some of these defining apps are Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook and Twitter. If these apps are missing from a mobile platform, the platform feels incomplete. I would also add Amazon’s [...]

“We’ve found no correlation between time of content publication and level of engagement.”

Chris Baccus, AT&T’s Executive Director of Digital & Social Media, uses data to drive his social media strategy. But what data? Data collected from social media initiatives is far from “clean.” That’s compounded by disparate views of which metrics should be used to measure social media performance and ROI.

After the jump, my last installment reviewing the presentations at Useful Social Media’s Corporate Social Media Summit, I’ll relay more valuable insights from brands at the forefront.

The webOS based HP TouchPad tablet will be available for purchase in the U.S. starting next week Friday (July 1). And, according to TechCrunch, it may be the first tablet with a Facebook app tuned for the tablet form factor. The HP TouchPad Will Come With Its Own Facebook Tablet App (Leaked Pics) An official [...]

The tablet computer market was very simple during the past decade. There was Microsoft’s Tablet PC Edition (later more or less merged into Windows Vista) that was purchased by narrow vertical markets. It remained simple after Apple released the iPad in 2010 too. Windows based tablets remained in their niches and the iPad dominated.

A new app from HP, Twynergy, streamlines the process of finding Twitter users to follow by examining profiles and associating them with topics.

In a bid to encourage U.S. entrepreneurs, the White House launched the Startup America Partnership, a non-profit campaign to encourage the development of new businesses.

With backing from Facebook, IBM, Intel; and leadership from AOL founder Steve Case, Startup America, the campaign pledged to provide $2 billion in matching funds from the Small Business Administration to select startup companies.

In partnership with Colorado-based startup incubator TechStars, the campaign also intends to expand the TechStars mentorship model to nurture 6,000 new entrepreneurs around the country; and encourage large businesses to invest in smaller ones. IBM has pledged to invest $150 million in new entrepreneurs, and Intel has pledged $200 million, according to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra.

Other partners include Facebook, which intends to host startup events around the country, HP, and Google.

Startup America will be funded in part by Case’s Case Foundation and the entrepreneurship-focused Kauffmann Foundation.

Howcast Media, a producer of how-to Internet videos, is making its entry into the realm of episodic YouTube Web series, teaming up with HP on Chief Household Officer, which will debut Dec. 1 and focus on “smart, savvy women who are applying their career acumen and digital know-how to conquer the most challenging undertaking of all: running their families.”

CHO will run eight episodes and combine interviews with documentary-style footage. Supermodel Veronica Webb will be the subject of the premiere episode. The series will also integrate the use of HP ePrint products and solutions, and Howcast will produce how-to videos on the use of HP ePrint products.

Howcast co-founder and CEO Jason Liebman said:

Howcast has established itself as a company that knows how to scale the creation and distribution of high-quality, short-form instructional lifestyle content for multiple viewing platforms, and we’re looking forward to moving into serial Web programming to broaden our appeal and reach new audiences and advertisers. With supplemental content and compelling personalities, CHO embodies the next iteration of Web programming.

Today, when no one hardly prints on paper anymore and every company seems to be hot on the heels of promoting green propaganda, MySpace and HP decided to go against the tide and are actually encouraging MySpace members to print their profiles or photos they’ve uploaded on their MySpace profiles, via a print options that sits on MySpace members profile pages. The print option which bears the HP brand will start showing up sometime in November, according to a TechCrunch post. Read more