Curated examples of individuals encountering items from The Onion on Facebook and missing the joke.

On Twitter, I wondered aloud how someone from the payment processing field would assess Square. The analysis I've seen is from tech bloggers who are enamored with such a perfect two-punch: it was founded by a Twitter founder and it uses an iPhone. My online friend Mike Orren knows just such an individual and recorded this interview. Thanks, Mike.

Google Correlate finds search patterns which correspond with real-world trends. 

I'm a PC. I'm a Mac. I'm a malware.

Introducing a new feature and tag form my link-posting. New stuff that is like clues for people with no clue.  #likex4x

Vendor Relationship Management link of the day: A blog  post about the startup http://Personal.com – " Personal offers to empower each of us to manage our digital data, share at will and get compensated when companies capitalize on our data, Personal’s service is a personal data bank, that keeps your assets for you in a friendly and intuitive way, facilitates permission based sharing and may trade with them in your name." 

Another magazine may have received more coverage for posting their entire archive of magazines online (behind a paywall), but Ebony has partnered with Google to offer a 65-year archive for free browsing, (Previously, a partial collection was digitized and available.)

Quote: "Users decide who has access to the data about their own interactions with the library and what may be done with that data."

If you think Google Maps looks better on your iOS or Android device, it does. Log in and you'll now see most of the features you see on the browser version.

From my friend Jeff Jarvis comes this subset of a conversation many of us have been having for a long, long time.

Quote: While most thought the biggest news out of Amazon’s e-book business this week was the revelation that e-books now eclipse print books, it was actually the launch of the company’s second genre imprint in the span of two weeks (and fifth imprint overall) that’s the bigger deal.