Today we’ve got solar energy news from Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Mississippi and California. Without further ado: The Arizona Solar Power Society today offered an open invitation to solar companies worldwide: bring it on. According to the group’s press release, more than 275 residential solar installation companies have opened shop in the past 18 months, attracted by the state’s “booming residential solar market.” Yet another utility-scale solar installation has been given the green light in Cal..   show all text

Last year, the original lineup of the pioneering emo band Sunny Day Real Estate reunited for a tour, making a bunch of my friends from college very, very happy. At the time, it wasn't clear whether the band would remain together after the tour. But now, those same college friends are about to get even happier, because Billboard is reporting that Sunny Day are working on a new album. This will be the first album from the original Sunny Day lineup since 1995's LP2. That same year, the band broke..   show all text

Netflix is canceling its second $1 million Netflix Prize to settle a legal challenge that it breached customer privacy as part of the first contest’s race for a better movie-recommendation engine. Friday’s announcement came five months after Netflix had announced a successor to its algorithm-improvement contest. The company at the time said it intended to expand the amount of information it gave to researchers in hopes that its recommendation system — a key part of Netflix’s customer retentio..   show all text

Update at 4:55 EST: More data is rolling in, Philip Elmer DeWitt tells us the estimate now stands at 91,000 iPads in 6 hours. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Apple Selling 20,000 iPads Per Hour? I Just Ordered An iPad: Here's Why 10 Burning Questions About Apple's iPad

The Top 1% (one percent)  is not a  measurement and comparison of wealth or ability.  The Top 1% is a mindset.  The mindset  that you can and will achieve the goals you set for yourself.  This mindset includes a bias for action. Action taken to follow a clear roadmap. Clear goals, a bias for action and a Top 1%  mindset will result in you experiencing  success way  beyond what the general population or “the herd” can even imagine. The idea of the Top 1%  is primarily discussed in reference to ..   show all text

From the Daily Beast: AOL has launched a massive effort to interview every one of the 2,000 bands playing South By Southwest—by enlisting everyday music fans to talk to their rock gods. A peek inside the great fanboy-journalism experiment. Continue reading at the Daily Beast > Join the conversation about this story » See Also: AOL's Top Sales Rep Is Ali Van Putten AOL Just Dumped Another Acquisition AOL Plans On Spending $50 Million To Build Hundreds Of Patch Sites

Real-tme feed publishing startup Superfeedr has quietly turned on automatic location data in the feeds it republishes from around the web, we confirmed with the company today. Founder Julien Genestoux explained the feature using Twitter as his example, but the same content extraction and analysis is being done on all kinds of feeds run through the service. "If you turn geolocation on in Twitter, then your feed will include geolocation in your Tweets and we'll just push that through," he said...   show all text

We've been hearing noises that AOL has re-worked its hiring process to be more like Google's. You know -- more and longer interviews, skills tests, bizarre questions, etc -- "Basically creating a grueling process," says one gossiper. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Left At the Altar By AOL, Associated Content Hires Allen AOL's Top Sales Rep Is Ali Van Putten AOL Just Dumped Another Acquisition

The iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today and while plenty of you are still debating about whether or not to pre-order, it appears as if the device might already sold 51,000 units in just two hours via pre-order. Wow. If you’ve ever doubted how insane dedicated Apple fans are, the background on how these figures were determined will assuage any doubts. A group of particularly prudent Apple fans from the APPL Sanity Board at Investor Village decided to put together a..   show all text

Greg Rollett runs a music marketing company from his laptop in Orlando, FL. He is an advocate of the New Music Economy and very hopeful that artists can still live the rock star lifestyle in the digital age. Connect with Greg on Twitter, @g_ro. Today’s musicians, both mainstream and indie, are using social media to connect with fans, build anticipation, and generate revenue in new and unique ways. The products range from singles to mix tapes to digital six-packs, even oddly shaped USB stic..   show all text

The iPad is now officially available for pre-order, which means that news is going to be flowing in all day about its various specs and features. We’ll keep you updated on said news with this handy-dandy, ever-changing post. Keep your eyes here for the latest. If you’re still trying to figure out if you want to pre-order an iPad or not, check out the below to help you decide. iPad Features - Screen rotation lock: Apple has added a button to the side of the iPad that locks the screen in ..   show all text

If you visit the DreamHost blog today, chances are you'll give a quick guffaw, shake your head in dismay at the state of the Internet and quickly close the browser tab. But if you take a moment to read all the way to the end of the post, you'll find that the company has just announced the implementation of a one-click install for its open-source, white label microblogging service Status.net. Sponsor The blog, which features a tattooed beer belly and a cat sitting at a keyboard, is really sh..   show all text

If you’ve ever wondered when we’ll be living in a world similar to that portrayed by the film Minority Report, where shops greet you by name as you walk in and you pay for a tube ticket by having your iris scanned, then wonder no more. It’ll be arriving in a few weeks’ time. Swedish mobile [...]

As PaidContent's David Kaplan observes, at the top of the New York Times, it was a very good year. (In the newsroom?  Not so much.) In total ‘09, [Chairman Arthur] Sulzberger’s compensation was $5,986,738, more than double the $2,331,599 he earned last year. His base salary for last year was $1,046,238. [CEO Janet] Robinson did even better, earning a total of $6,262,755, which included a base salary of $962,500, for a significant 31.9 percent rise in earnings over last year’s $4,753,314. Rea..   show all text

Note: This post was originally published on OPEN Forum. It is republished here with permission. By now you’ve probably read or heard of stories of employees getting fired or tweeting their way out of a job offer, by saying inappropriate things on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.  One minute the future looks bright.  The next minute they’re hitting the unemployment line. It’s not just employees who make career-limiting comments.  Small business personnel and freelancers have been ..   show all text

Every month, a few leading online marketers have been pulling in a substantial and consistent income from online membership sites. With the current buzz in the internet marketing community this could spell a whopping growth this 2010 in membership sites only. Almost everything can be sold online – Ebooks, software, games, physical products and countless profit from affiliate marketing. But there is one "final frontier" of Online marketing that so far has been unnoticed--membership sites. The..   show all text

We're a little obsessed with great tools that fit on our keychains, so it's no wonder the Screwpop 4-in-1 keychain multi-tool caught our eye. It's a Phillips-head screwdriver, flat-head screwdriver, a hex nut driver, and a bottle opener in a key-sized package. More »

The fact of the matter is, we're relatively far and few between, according to a study by Barracuda Networks. One day, we're told Twitter is growing exponentially, the next, it's a dying service that's stalled out like your grandpa's Studebaker. But does growth, or the lack thereof, actually translate into use? Sponsor According to Barracuda Networks, the Internet security research company, Twitter looks to be an insider app, one that many people sign up for and never really use. Or perhaps ..   show all text

Chris Allison is a social media strategist at NeboWeb, where he helps clients make the most of the social web. You can follow him on Twitter as the voice behind @Neboweb. As social media marketing becomes more widely practiced, the questions of the day are less frequently focused on the benefits of social media and more often focused on its implementation. Justifying social media to superiors is no longer the marketer’s biggest challenge. Instead, marketers are being challenged not on the ..   show all text