In a nutshell, there is a segment of the online population that uses social media as a core navigation and information discovery tool ” http://bit.ly/13sBrM

On Walmart’s Marketplace: A new entrant into the market will inevitably have problems if it has no control over the fulfillment process. Shoppers will blame Walmart for problems, not the independent retailers, and the overall Walmart platform will have to address this if it wants to become a major player in the third-party business. http://bit.ly/6JHP1

A linkworthy post from Battelle: Facebook and Twitter, you need to get better at mixing traditional web search with what you’ve already got. And Google/Microsoft, well, vicey versa. You need to get better at mixing social into your traditional web search. http://bit.ly/vyDj7

It’s great to see that even non-industry guys see that online isn’t getting the credit it is due– Paul Kedrosky: Reason #2,354,817 Why Advertisers Can’t Add http://bit.ly/3unGMa

Twitter / Josh Stylman: While technology & adverti … “While technology & advertising biz models may be converging, the conversations in each sector are worlds apart.” http://bit.ly/mpqR8

“Yext is moving beyond simple click-to-call ads to pay-per-action ads based on what people actually say in the call and monitored by sophisticated speech-to-text software. Skype has “no plans to do anything based on what someone is saying on the call,” ” http://bit.ly/14zHoI

BRYCE DOT VC, One of the better “why and how to take venture… “One of the better “why and how to take venture capital” presentations I’ve seen. It was prepared by Ben Holmes at Index Ventures.” http://bit.ly/1Mm7LR

NYC Big Apps competition, an initiative that will supply local programmers and developers with a stockpile of raw municipal data sets to build applications for the Web and mobile phones. ” http://bit.ly/12pb5I

VZW looks to venture capitalists for LTE development | Unfiltered http://bit.ly/tu7r1

paulisageek: Hadoop Hacking on Yahoo! Ad Data “Did you know half of our money comes from the #1 Search Ad? ” http://bit.ly/9C7o7