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Buy Colchicine - We Always Offer Lowest Prices on Internet [New Window]
One of the most irritating topics that people seem to want to talk about ad nauseum Buy colchicine, is how to make money online. Frankly, I'm sick and tired of reading horrible advice on this subject, and I'm even more sick and tired of ... Whatever Happened to Standing Behind Your Products and Services? [New Window]
Remember the days when you purchased a product or service and the company actually stood behind its wares? Well, looks like those days are waning. Unless, of course, you buy the product insurance! Now, there's a great money-making ... Home Sweet Home Brands [New Window]
In recent days, I've been struck by how powerful the sense of home can be. Home is familiar, comfortable, irreplaceable. There's an undeniable belongingness that can't be replicated. Stepping off on a hike last fall in New Hampshire ... Open courseware an 'opportunity' for education publishers [New Window]
I can just hear Stephen now eSchoolNews reports on a speech given today by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, which they summarize with the byline, Secretary calls federal investment in open courseware an 'opportunity' for education ... The Boring Web Content Challenge: Reviewing (...yawn!) Submissions ... [New Window]
MarketingProfs blogger Ann Handley reviews entries for the most Boring Web Content Challenge. The OCWC Value Proposition [New Window]
In response to yesterday's post, OCWC President Steve Carson left a link in the comment section to the organization's 2010-2011 strategic plan. Reading through the plan provided a number of insights, but let me focus on two here and you ... 'Entitled' Gen Y: How They Add to the Integrated Hybrid [New Window]
What are the first words that pop into your head when someone says Gen Y? Go-getter, enthusiastic, tech-oriented? Entitled was more than likely among the more colorful adjectives. Those 'My Kid is an an Honor Roll Superstar' bumper ... Michael Urlocker Examines Disruption and Disruptive Processes ... [New Window]
Update: Feb. 17, 2009. NYT: Sirius XM averts a close brush with bankruptcy, for now... Things looked irretrievable only a few weeks ago. Sirius XM Prepares Bankruptcy Filing. Meanwhile, equity investors have already been effectively ... 'The Basics' May Be Enough To Make You Great | MarketingProfs ... [New Window]
MarketingProfs blogger Paul Williams shares how marketers who provide the basics can be considered remarkable by their customers. Chocolate: the New 'Health' Food? [New Window]
We've known for some time that naturally occurring compounds called flavonols found in cocoa have potentially good health benefits. Ongoing scientific research suggests consumption of chocolate rich in flavonols may act as antioxidants ... Make A Referral Week: What's Your Idea? [New Window]
My friend John Jantsch invited me (and a bunch of other people you probably know, including David Meerman Scott, Guy Kawasaki, Rohit Bhargava and Chris Brogan, Ivan Misner, Bob Burg, Ben McConnell, Dan Schawbel, Anita Campbell, ... Don't Abandon Traditional Marketing Methods: Integrate and ... [New Window]
MarketingProfs blogger Christine Perkett discusses the importance of interacting with customers through traditional marketing, not just social media. 18 Use Cases That Show Business How to Finally Put Customers First [New Window]
Or: Social and CRM: How Companies Will Manage Their Customer Relationships. Over the last six months, I've been working closely with Ray Wang who is well known as an expert in the Customer Relationship Management space. ... My TEDxNYED Talk [New Window]
Photo by AntonioViva. I had an absolutely brilliant time at TEDxNYED over the weekend, reconnecting with old friends like Larry Lessig, George Siemens, Neeru Khosla, and Dan Cohen, and making new friends like Michael Wesch, ... How I Was Wrong About LinkedIn (with 2 Mini Case Studies) [New Window]
I've always considered LinkedIn more of a place to prospect for a job than anything else. And since I haven't been in the market for one in a while, I've paid it little mind. Plus, if I'm being honest: I've always thought LinkedIn was ... Haiti Relief App by Xtreme Labs [New Window]
My buddies at Xtreme Labs teamed up with MTV and Crackberry in putting together a Relief App for the BlackBerry device. You can read the press release here as well as heading over to the Crackberry store here to get it. ... Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs [New Window]
We had a great event this week co-hosted by First Round Capital and Mayfield Fund called "Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs." There were well over 150 seasoned and new entrepreneurs in attendance networking with each other for a few ... Redeye VC: Some more thoughts on innovation in eCommerce [New Window]
I had the chance to speak on a panel about Online Shopping at a NextNY event this week. And after a great discussion, I started talking with some folks about my last blog post (which commented on how little has... A Time and Season for Search: How Data Mining Can Influence Search ... [New Window]
How a search engine like Yahoo might use datamining to analyze its search logs to find concepts and topics to use in search advertisements, looking at both popular recent search trends and seasonal patterns involving user data going ... Why a Search Engine Might Choose Something Other Than Meta ... [New Window]
The snippet that a search engine might display for a page in search results may come from content on your page instead of from your meta description. Keep that in mind when writing sentences that contain important phrases that your page ... Augment your SXSW reality (News: first indoor AR app released) [New Window]
No, no, I'm not talking about going to the Diggnation party and downing a couple of drinks. This year there's some geekier ways to augment your reality while you walk from panel to panel or event to party. Here's a few. ... The Revolution at Work (the industry reacts to Salesforce's moves) [New Window]
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, has been using the bully pulpit over at Techcrunch to tell everyone that how we work together is about to radically change to be more like how we are able to share photos and fun things with each other ... Will Google Bring Us Tabbed Windows on TV? [New Window]
There's been some recent news about the possibility of Google working with the Dish Network to bring searches for television programming and YouTube videos to TVs, reported at places like the Wall Street Journal. ... Mini Canvas - ShoeMoney [New Window]
Mini Canvas is a cool site they take any picture, from a cell phone, digital camera, screen shot, anything and print it on a 4x3 canvas that comes with a easel to display it. These are great for the office or home and great as gifts. ... 4 Day Cash Machine More Popular Than Oscar Coverage [New Window]
Lots of people make the argument that you should not ever pay for any How to make money online product because all the information is out there for free. And for the most part I agree with that if you have years to research it. ... This Week in the ShoeMoney Marketplace [New Window]
New listings placed this week in the ShoeMoney Marketplace: FREE Twitter Traffic Guide; ShopperGuard Launches Increase Conversions; Search Engine With Affiliate Program On PPC Desposits; FREE Affiliate Marketing Guide ... Anyone Ever Stole Your Site? [New Window]
No matter if you are a SEO, PPC Marketer, or just a website developer I guarantee you suffer from the following issues. People steal your landing page. Your site goes down and you don't know about it. The latter speaks for itself but ... Win $1000.00 Cash Making The ShoeMoney System Theme Song [New Window]
FaceBook Advertising Policy Change Taking Effect Tomorrow - ShoeMoney [New Window]
Blog Entry About FaceBook Advertising Policy Change Taking Effect Tomorrow. My Basic 3 Pronged Approach To Website Analytics [New Window]
The other day a non-technical friend of mine told me how his webhost shut him off because he was using too much bandwidth. I was pretty surprised because they allocate him hundreds of GB per month and his website does not get much ... Lets Get It Cracking - ShoeMoney [New Window]
So here is the deal. I want a theme song to help promote the ShoeMoney System. Since I made it, I am already sold and also I am not the audience I want to reach. Your friends are probably a better judge then I am. ... Smart Mobs Blog Archive Twitter pace and power users [New Window]
twittergraph. The graph shows the burst of new Twitter accounts in 2009, and not so much in 2010. Mashable has a summary article, that includes the graph, of an new Barracuda Labs analysis of Twitter. Here are some key findings: ... Smart Mobs Blog Archive Clicking smarts of the class mob [New Window]
An Associated Press story today is a roundup on classroom clickers: At universities, is better learning a click away? One of the article's themes is the variety of the devices in use, and whether smartphones will eventually take over as ... Smart Mobs Blog Archive News in the Age of Participation [New Window]
News is changing. How we get news, where we get news, how we react to news, what we do with news when we get it and on and on. The Pew Internet and American Life Project published today a report that takes a look at this rapidly ... Smart Mobs Blog Archive The Rijkswidget places great art an ... [New Window]
The Rijksmuseum's magnificent collection of art now displays on webpages and smartphones. Since the early days of the web, Amsterdam's grand art museum has been at the forefront of the online museum sector for web design and for ... Web Designer - Easton-Bell Sports - (Scotts Valley, California ... [New Window]
CAREERS Easton-Bell Sports is like no other sporting goods company in the world, and we are looking for experienced professionals up to the challenge of filling the available careers listed below. At... Smart Mobs Blog Archive Cellphone classroom field study finds ... [New Window]
An O'Reilly radar article provides an in-depth look at a field study where a small sample of 150 kids were studied as they used cellphones for school work. The article addresses many of the usual points raised for the topic, ... Interactive Creative Director - Gelia - (Buffalo, NY) - FullTime [New Window]
GELIA - Western New York's Premier Marketing Communication Agency seeks INTERACTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR to assist in developing digital strategies and internet-based solutions for agency clients. ... Smart Mobs Blog Archive Chile Earthquake / Hawaii Tsunami updates [New Window]
Patrick Meier : Add good media sources for #Chile to this Google Doc @USHAHIDI-Chile: Sources, Feeds, Twitter Lists, Images, Maps, Utilities, etc. Via @acarvin: OpenStreetMap has set up their wiki workspace for the quake: ... Front-End Developer - Zappos.com - (Las Vegas, NV) - FullTime [New Window]
Zappos.com, Powered by Service, is one of the fastest growing online retailers, and earned #15 on the 2010 Fortune: 100 Best Companies to Work For List (check out http://blogs.zappos.com to learn why)... Creative Freelance Web Designer / UI expert - Netgrade Solutions ... [New Window]
Hello! I run an ecommerce web design and SEO agency and currently I am launching a new website. The new website will run on Wordpress and will be dedicated to iphone app review and tips. It will b... Perhaps a slight oversimplification of my job, but I'll take the ... [New Window]
First Round Capital could do zero deals in New York over the next 12 months and they would still have a major impact on the NY startup scene because they're paying Charlie O'Donnell to hang out in the Ace Hotel Lobby and chat with any ... - This is going to be BIG! - People Recommendation vs. Content ... [New Window]
Content recommendation for years has been a startup graveyard. Sure, a few companies like Sphere/Surphace and StumbleUpon have been able to get outbut the number of folks who have tried to solve this is vast. ... Tim Oren's Due Diligence: Startup Helps MSM Sites Become SEO Spammers [New Window]
How often do you find a cross-over story about three notable Left Coast industries: venture capital, media, and -- err -- sex? It seems that noted San Francisco sex writer Violet Blue did some checking on what the SF Chron... Tim Oren's Due Diligence: The Roving Eye: Clamatology, A Bio ... [New Window]
I checked, it's not April 1st. This report on a use of prehistoric mollusk shells to estimate temperatures appears to be genuine. With a worldwide sample size of 26 such shells, it's not going to change science overnight, but it... Best Small Business Books of 2009 [New Window]
In no particular order, we have compiled a list of what we consider to be six of the best books released during 2009. These books should be in the library of every small business owner and entrepreneur, as they often represent straight ... Video: Tips for Attracting and Converting Traffic [New Window]
Advertisers and digital agencies have to be effective in how they approach search engine optimization. With so many tools for organic search, paid search, and landing page optimization, it is hard to know what to use. The Death (Or Redefinition) Of SEO Discussed [New Window]
Some people would have you believe that search engine optimization is a dying art, and depending on how you define SEO, that may be true. But at OMS 2010 in. Google Scores Major Italian Book Deal | WebProNews [New Window]
Google Books has done it again. Despite heavy opposition to its book-scanning project, another deal's been established, and this time, the agreement involves the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage (along with the National Libraries ... Critical: Improve Your Mobile Search and Advertising Strategy ... [New Window]
A Google exec recently said, "In three years' time, desktops will be irrelevant." That's debatable, but there's no question that mobile use will have grown much more than it already has. Based on comments in a recent keynote, ... More Than Half Of March Madness Fans Will Watch Online | WebProNews [New Window]
With the 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament starting next week (March 16), it's no surprise the majority (83%) of fans will watch coverage on television, while 44 percent will go online and 10 percent will use a mobile device, ... Motorola Goes Bing on Android-Based Devices | WebProNews [New Window]
Motorola has announced a "global" alliance with Microsoft, which will see Bing used as the default search engine on Motorola Android-based devices. The move begins in China, where obviously there is some turmoil between Google and that ... Street View Nears Omniscience In The UK | WebProNews [New Window]
Pick a road, any road. So long as it's in the UK, there's a good chance Google will be able to provide you with pictures taken from it. Today, the search giant made much more Street View imagery available, meaning its photographs now ... Big Day for Brizzly VCMike's Blog [New Window]
Congrats and kudos to the team at Thing Labs, our portfolio company that is the creator of Brizzly, on launching today a few exciting new products. First is the Brizzly Guide, which expands on the trend explanations already shown in ... Does Your VC Provide Startup Therapy? VCMike's Blog [New Window]
We all say this and hear this routinely: money is cheap, you want an investor who is really going to add value. Yeah, sure, of course. But just how should you to expect your VC to add value? There are lots of different examples from ... Google Gives Wave Another Push With Extensions Gallery | WebProNews [New Window]
Google Wave didn't do so well when it came out of the gate, and Buzz's privacy problems stole all of the attention not too long after. But now that Google's addressed most of Buzz's faults, it's trying to move forward again by rolling ... Chinese Minister Hints At Consequences For Google | WebProNews [New Window]
Despite weeks of talks that have supposedly taken place behind closed doors, the Chinese government still seems unwilling to compromise with respect to Google and censorship. Indeed, it may be growing hostile, as a minister talked about ... FTC Takes Closer Look At Google's AdMob Deal | WebProNews [New Window]
The "Facts about Google's acquisition of AdMob" page Google established in November of last year apparently hasn't satisfied the Federal Trade Commission's curiosity. A fresh report indicates that the FTC has stepped up its ... New Mahalo Profile pages are coming. Feedback? http://bit.ly ... [New Window]
We're adding a really slick new feature to Mahalo: Twitter/Facebook/Google Buzz style profiles. This is like adding. Facebook to Wikipedia to Yahoo Answers. which is either a complete mess or brilliant. Time will tell if I'm visionary ... Ohio state shooting, 2 folks dead http://bit.ly/aAxo5Z #sad [New Window]
Ohio State Shooting two victims (one dead), suspect killed himself: http://www.mahalo.com/ohio-state-shooting. Suspect Nathaniel Brown: http://www.mahalo.com/nathaniel-brown http://bit.ly/diPvQ. The Daily London: serious baby. #supercute The Jason Calacanis ... [New Window]
The Daily London: serious baby. #supercute. | Permalink | Comments [0]. No Comments . No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL. Leave a comment. Name (required). Mail (will not be published) (required) ... INFOGRAPHIC: Why does a salad cost more than a big mac? The ... [New Window]
Interesting.. I don't eat fast foodever. Eating fast food like this is just a bad idea. unless you're a real athlete and your body can process it and handle it I'd suggest getting something with less bread, fat and that ... ChatRoulette, from my perspective [New Window]
I've been following ChatRoulette for a while now but haven't been comfortable talking about it publicly. For one, it's a hugely controversial site, one that is prompting yet-another moral panic about youth engagement online. ... Need someone to do Ghost Writer Analysis M$25: http://bit.ly ... [New Window]
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The daily London video! | Permalink | Comments [0]. No Comments . No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL. Leave a comment. Name (required). Mail (will not be published) (required). Website ... READING: If you're not fit in your 50s, your projected life span ... [New Window]
wow. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954904575109673558885594.html. To Double the Odds of Seeing 85: Get a Move On. When It Comes to Longevity, Regular Exercise May Be the Most Potent Weapon Against Disease ... Sarah Palin 2012 Poster The Jason Calacanis Weblog [New Window]
from The Daily Dish By Andrew Sullivan by Andrew Sullivan. | Permalink | Comments [0]. No Comments . No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL. Leave a comment. Name (required). Mail (will not be published) ... IMAGE: Dog Mustache chew toy #genius The Jason Calacanis Weblog [New Window]
want http://www.muttropolis.com/products2.cfm/ID/9275/name/Humunga-Stache-Durable- | Permalink | Comments [0]. No Comments . No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL. Leave a comment. Name (required) ... Great photo series: long live the queen! with 11 presidents. wow ... [New Window]
Great photo series: long live the queen! with 11 presidents. wow. | Permalink | Comments [0]. No Comments . No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL. Leave a comment. Name (required) ... BOOK: Open|Mobile - How is it impacting the mobile industry? [New Window]
It is not often one comes across a book which encourages an entire industry to reflect upon its essence and purpose. Ajit Jaokar, founder of Open Gardens and Anna Gatti, Head of mobilizing the Internet at Vodafone, have delivered a ... Brains and Beta [New Window]
Researchers at Caltech has linked the fear of losing money to a specific structure in the brain, the amygdala. Subjects in which it was damaged were willing to essentially disregard downside risks. The amygdala is linked to emotional ... Could California Borrow This Guy? [New Window]
Newly installed New Jersey governor Christie lays it down: The state is busted, public pensions and retiree benefits are the biggest single cause, and it's time for the hurt. The same is true in pretty much every state out there, ... Serna Free added to osalt.com [New Window]
Serna Free is an open source, powerful XML editor. It is geared toward those with no experience and uses WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) for ease of use. Its appearance is a lot like a word processor so it is very easy to learn. ... Credentialing bloggers with journalists [New Window]
journalists What is traditional media and should it be given more access than bloggers? An article in SEED Magazine outlines the many aspects of this question. The opening and closing paragraphs follow. Between the two paragraphs is ... Music recommendation: The Silent Years - By Steve Poland - web ... [New Window]
Music recommendation: The Silent Years. By Steve Poland December 13, 2007. I never talk about music on this blog, despite it being likely my biggest passion in life. One band that blows my mind is a small band out of Detroit called ... Have You Seen What Thesis 1.6 Can Do? [New Window]
Thesis is my software project, and if you haven't seen it yet, I'd love to show you what it can do! The latest version has been met with tons of enthusiasm, and people have been saying some really awesome things about it. ... Where is Web Publishing Heading in 2010? [New Window]
I like to solve problems. At this point in my life, I'm focused on solving the fundamental problems of Web design and development through my business, DIYthemes, and my software, Thesis. One of the most compelling things I've learned in ... What Does Your Authority Index Say About You? [New Window]
Left untouched, nature operates in a maximally efficient state. This means that in the long run, nature is always going to favor the most efficient path. In other words, efficiency wins. Everything you do can (and should! ... Do You Want a Free Premium Theme? [New Window]
buy Thesis by August 31 and get Cosmo free Thesis, my first premium WordPress theme, received a major update yesterday with the addition of a new design options panel. This revolutionary upgrade gives users an unparalleled degree of ... Money or Efficiency? Know Where to Place Your Focus [New Window]
Somehow, society has been perverted to the point that we think crap can be turned to gold, so long as it makes money. Worse, the venture capital and corporate acquisition culture that has soiled the tech space since the '90s has ... wsj: wal-mart disrupted? [New Window]
the wall street journal ran an eye-opening front page that explored the demise of walmart (full story). it's a great read and the major points are: consumers are changing: price may matter less; quality may matter more ... established magazines sink but new titles bubble up [New Window]
the game has changed for publishers of business magazines, as described in today's wall street journal. the old days of selling (or giving away) subscriptions to well-heeled executives and piling on the ads for cars and financial ... heineken: disrupting a commodity business [New Window]
this week, guest columnist zack urlocker combines two of our favorite topics: disruption and beer! heineken most of the time when people talk about disruption they focus on high-tech companies: google, rim and others. ... careers: should you pack your parachute? [New Window]
following his recent article "are you a sitting duck?" guest columnist zack urlocker shows the steps you should take to improve your own position if your company is being disrupted. mad_parachute just because it's time to pack your ... flip video kills the camcorder [New Window]
flip by zack urlocker. zack urlocker, a regular contributor to this blog and half of the creative team at the disruption brothers, offers his insights on the world of technology marketing and disruptive innovation. ... Archive of My Published Articles [New Window]
Since my department at BYU has committed itself to open access publishing I've been able to get serious about putting my published writing in the university's institutional repository called ScholarsArchive. ... OCWC Raises $350k Shouldn't I Be Happy? [New Window]
Yesterday OpenCourseWare Consortium President Steve Carson announceed that the OCWC has received commitments of $350k over the next five years from several of its university members. In a reference to concerns I (and others) have ... Another Merger in the OER World [New Window]
First, Mike and Cathy left the Hewlett Foundation, where they had provided incredible vision and incubation support for early OER efforts. (While Hewlett is still running its OER program there didn't seem to be many OER-related grants ... More on the OER Transition [New Window]
I'm happy to point to this comment by Vic Vuchic from the Hewlett Foundation on a previous post I wrote about what seems to be happening with OER. It's a great perspective (that he is uniquely qualified to provide) that warmed my heart ... vcs and risk aversion [New Window]
nailbiter paul graham writes another thought-provoking essay today on both why founders don't sell early (or why they might) as well as castigates corporate development organizations and vcs for not being risk takers when it comes to ... How Do You Solve a Problem Like Patzer? [New Window]
250px-How_Do_You_Solve_a_Problem_Like_Maria?_logo It was with bemusement that I read how Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer has just been verbed. The story goes that when Mint.com sold to Intuit for $170 million, they left way too much ... SimpleGeo: Dead Simple Location Awareness [New Window]
I first met Matt Galligan when he started SocialThing and found him to be incredibly smart and en Simplegeo gaging. When he saw a tweet on one of my regular trips to Boulder and pinged me I was excited to hear what he was working on ... Johansen Dissertation on Sustainability of OCW Available [New Window]
Newly minted Dr. Justin Johansen's dissertation study, The Impact Of Opencourseware On Paid Enrollment In Distance Learning Courses, is now available from BYU's Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) archive. ... Taking OER Within CC to the Next Level [New Window]
Our good friend Cathy Casserly, former Director of the Open Educational Resources Initiative of the Hewlett Foundation, as just been elected to the Creative Commons Board of Directors. While there were already people on the CC board who ... What's 2 Minutes Worth? Ask Jing and Say It Visually* [New Window]
[updated to fix methodology/method point made by Tim]. One of the things Start Ups usually excel at is support. It is one of those weirdly inverse things I've seen over the years. A one or two person company goes nuts with respect to ... How a Search Engine Might Choose Text for Quicklinks or Site links [New Window]
Sometimes when you search at one of the major search engines, you'll see an extra set of links showing up under one of the listings in those search results. Referred to as either quicklinks or site links, most often those will show up ... Apple Streaming Media Patent Filing Hints at New Approach for ... [New Window]
A new patent filing from Apple may be a sign of changes to the way Apple presents music recommendations at the iTunes store. That change was hinted at last December when Apple acquired the streaming music site, Lala. ... SEO for Goverment: Trying to Find My Town on the Web [New Window]
It may be possible that governmental web sites are at least as important, and in some cases more important that most of the other web sites online. They can provide information on when and where to vote, when and where laws are being ... The Evolution of Search Results into Query Portals [New Window]
When you perform a search at a search engine, you usually see a list of links to web pages in response to your search. Over the past few years, search engine have started showing a mix of other types of results, including images, ... How a Search Engine Might Weigh Pages with Relevant Annotations ... [New Window]
One of the words that appears when someone describes how search engines work is relevance. A search engine attempts to show searchers web pages and other results that might be relevant to the words that they used when they perform a ... Google Book Search Patent Offers Copyright Protection, Not Censorship [New Window]
Geographic and political boundaries are challenged by the Web, where laws of one state or province or country may differ from another. Web sites intended for an audience in one country can often be viewed by visitors from most other ... Xerox Brings Patent Infringement Suit Against Google, Yahoo, and ... [New Window]
Charles Knight, who is now the Search Editor at Nextweb pointed me to a Bloomberg report at BusinessWeek, Google, Yahoo Sued by Xerox Over Search Query Patents. The patent infringement complaint contains claims that specifically name ... TorQuest Goes Gold [New Window]
My good buddy Michael Hollend has joined TorQuest Partners. Michael is probably one of the nicest and smartest investment professionals on Bay Street. TorQuest is a mid-market firm that invests in the big money rounds, typically in the ... Failing 2010 - Fashionable? [New Window]
Wired Magazine is all about failure in the latest issue. The science of it along with the requisite people talking about the oops, never giving up, etc. I hope the VC community in Canada, the people who run start up programs in Canada, ... Mobile Fix - March 4 [New Window]
The new Mobile Fix is now up on the addictive blog. i'll say it again: happy birthday to me! [New Window]
well, i thought last year would be the last time i would celebrate my birthday, but my friends had other ideas and this is a shameless happy 30th birthday to me post. ;-). (more) SoJones [New Window]
SoJones.com is an urban lifestyle and streetwear magazine. They write about hip hop clothing brands, latest streetwear and fashion trends. They also feature interviews with R&B and hip hop artists, stylists and fashion industry reps. ... Split Testing with a Genetic Algorithm [New Window]
I've got some interesting data following the ShoeMoney System launch that I want to share. This time around I used genetify to do multi-variate testing with an optimizing algorithm. Let me show you why this is important. ... MySQL DBA (Senior) - Jigsaw Data - (Foster City, CA) - FullTime [New Window]
The Company. Jigsaw (www.jigsaw.com) is quite simply unlike any other organization. We firmly established ourselves as one of the unique success stories of the Web 2.0 revolution. For the past sever... UI Designer - Jive Software - (Portland, OR) - FullTime [New Window]
We're looking for someone who is creative, innovative, and passionate. Someone who enjoys taking complicated problems and turning them into beautiful and functional solutions. Someone who can recogn... Webmaster - Gamma Telecom - (Newbury, Berkshire, UK) - FullTime [New Window]
Role: Webmaster Location: Newbury Salary: 30000 to 35000 per annum depending on experience Contract: Permanent Hours: 37.5 (Monday to Friday) Reporting to: Marketing Manager. The Webma... Senior Front End Developer - JustGiving.com - (Central London UK ... [New Window]
JustGiving, the UK's leading online fundraising platform, is seeking a creative, collaborative and passionate front-end developer to be the creative force at the point where technology meets design ... - This is going to be BIG! - Five common misconceptions about ... [New Window]
It's really difficult for me not to get into the thick of discussions about whether or not you can and/or should build a company in New York City. I grew up here, went to school here, and have worked hard over the last 5+ years to help ... Sociality Is Learning [New Window]
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. As adults, we take social skills for granted until we encounter someone who ... 2009 Redux [New Window]
Year-end is a natural time for reflection on events of the past year and a time to plan goals for the year to come. As I think back on 2009, I am struck by a few observations. The year began with the macro overhang of the economy and ... the lighthouse [New Window]
a key to a successful startup journey is to always know where you're headed. the company has to always have a single lighthouse that it is pursuing. more importantly - everyone on your team has to know exactly what that lighthouse is. ... When the Whole Web is a Facebook Fan Page [New Window]
Last night we had a truly epic evening at Dogpatch Labs, hosting the Facebook Connect team, 13 startups presenting on their implementations of Connect, and about 100 other guests. Epic not just because of the great content, ... Scott Cook - Wisdom [New Window]
On Monday, Widgetbox and I were invited to attend and present at Intuit's inaugural entrepreneurship day. Intuit's founder, CEO, CTO, and senior management hosted twenty plus companies to share ideas on innovation and to explore avenues ... The New Normal [New Window]
Bill Gross of PIMCO is one of the nation's sages. His monthly Investment Outlooks marry wit, wisdom, and market insights to great effect. His August Outlook, Investment Potions, looks at the implication of the "new normal" GDP outlook ... Now [New Window]
There is a real challenge in being present - that is enjoying right now, this moment. Modern technology and life makes it very easy to be distracted and the stress and pressure of Silicon Valley provide ample opportunity to ponder the ... moneyball - highly recommended [New Window]
moneyball last week i participated in a roundtable organized by carmel ventures, with probably 20-30 entrepreneurs in the room. i recommended they all read moneyball by michael lewis - a book i read a couple of years ago. ... I Just Saw the Coolest Company! [New Window]
I am still jazzed about the meeting I had yesterday with this incredibly exciting company I spent the afternoon with yesterday. The company is called Sun Catalytix. And what is even more exciting is it is a Polaris portfolio company. ... How Long Does It Take to Hit $50m in Revenue [New Window]
Very interesting analysis from Tableau Software regarding how long it takes a software company to hit $50m in revenue.. See my post on "When it Goes Right, What Does it Cost to Build a Great Software Company?" for more analysis on time ... Outloud [New Window]
Today we (=Outbrain) are announcing the launch of our sponsored link program called Outloud. Outbrain now powers the recommended/related article links ("People who liked this article also liked these:") on thousands of blogs and ... Living History: Larry Ellison [New Window]
Last night, Ed Zander (ex-CEO of Motorola) interviewed Larry Ellison at the Churchill Club. The interview proved to be fascinating, with Ed Zander a perfect choice to push and prod Ellison on topics ranging from ORCL's early years, ... The Healing of America [New Window]
TR Reid's book, The Healing of American: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, is an important read. Reid, a Washington Post correspondent, explores health-care systems around the world and asks and works to answer ... Startup Nation [New Window]
Click to buy on Amazon I recently had the pleasure of hearing Dan Senor, author of Startup Nation, at the most recent TechAviv meetup. I just bought 10 copies of the book, and will be giving them away to 10 Outbrain customers. ... Why Blog? [New Window]
I am reading Warren Bennis' seminal work on leadership, On Becoming a Leader. The book profiles scores of business leaders and seeks to identify common abstractions that help reveal "truths" about leadership. ... The Protocol Society [New Window]
When Alabama and Nick Sabean won the BCS National Championship, ESPN called the win the revenge of the grinder. The recap story noted that Nick Sabean focuses on process and the "Alabama system." That is not to say that winning is not ... Comscore, Calacanis, Quantcast etc. [New Window]
Unless you've been asleep or unconscious the last few days, you no doubt have been following the brouhaha kicked off by Jason Calacanis's angry rant against Comscore and its business practices. The Silicon Alley Insider joined the fray ... Facebook: Sure it is huge, but it has really high engagement metrics [New Window]
I've been listening over the last couple of years as media and advertising types turned their noses up at Facebook as an advertising platform. They don't have a clue how to monetize that traffic was the common refrain. ... Sharing and Exchanging... [New Window]
DSC_0021 Yesterday was one of my favorite days of the year. Not because Steve Jobs unveiled an iPod with a 9 inch screen. Not because it was Obama's First State of the Union Address. Not because of any earth-shaking pronouncement made ... Introducing the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire [New Window]
One of the most useful things a VC can ever do for a portfolio company is to help a CEO make a key hire. While every hire is important, some additions are pivotal value creating moments in the life of a company. ... First Round Capital to open NYC office [New Window]
NYC2. I believe that as the world has gotten flatter over the last decade, it's created a big opportunity for venture investors who recognized that great entrepreneurs can come up with great ideas in almost any location. ... Company Math vs VC Math [New Window]
Fred Wilson has a great blog post today entitled The 'We Need to Own' Baloney. In it he discussed the fact that many VC's apply arbitrary ownership thresholds to investments. I couldn't agree with Fred more - but I'd take it even ... Interesting times in UK TV [New Window]
From the Guardian;. BSkyB increased the number of customers using its Sky+ personal video recorder set-top boxes by 553000 in the three months to the end of December. The total Sky+ customer base now stands at 6.5 million ... Mobile Fix [New Window]
The new mobile fix is up on the addictive blog. Highlights include a car launched with an iphone app, thoughts on SMS as a dialogue tool and a look forward to next weeks Mobile World Congress. And you can now sign up to get the Fix by ... Mobile Fix - February 5 [New Window]
New research sensation. Over 400 people turned out in London yesterday to see Comscore and the GSMA launch Mobile Media Metrics - research that users operators data to see what people really do on mobile. ... 100 million mobile Facebook users [New Window]
So how big is Facebook on mobile? We saw last week from the GSMA data that 5 million people in the UK use Facebook on mobile and now Facebook share this staggering fact with us. Mobile Fix [New Window]
To help people keep up with the relentless pace of change in mobile addictive are starting a short, quick fix of mobile news that they think is significant. If you're in the mobile business it will probably seem a little Janet & John, ... Public by Default, Private when Necessary [New Window]
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out. With Facebook systematically dismantling its revered privacy infrastructure, ... Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy norms [New Window]
When I learned that Mark Zuckerberg effectively argued that 'the age of privacy is over' (read: ReadWriteWeb), I wanted to scream. Actually, I did. And still am. The logic goes something like this: People I knew didn't used to like to ... whose voice do you hear? gender issues and success [New Window]
Growing up, I loved to debate. With anyone. My debating tone used to drive my mother batty because she thought I was yelling at her. Exasperated, I would often bark back that I was simply debating. Over the years, I realized that my ... Upcoming Mary Gray talk on on Out in the Country: Youth, Media ... [New Window]
It used to be the case that all of the queer youth living in rural America ran away to the city to find others like them. The Internet has dramatically changed this. More and more, rural queer youth are building out networks of other ... ChatRoulette by Sarita Yardi [New Window]
Sarita Yardi has been doing a lot of thinking about ChatRoulette these days and I wanted to share a short essay she wrote to explain ChatRoulette to the uninitiated. I think that this is a fantastic introduction for those who aren't ... How To Market Your Mobile Application - Smashing Magazine [New Window]
App Store is a competitive environment. Against more than 140000 apps, all screaming for attention, how do you make sure your app gets its time in the spotlight? The Roving Eye: Keynes v. Hayek Crib, Genomics Learning Curve ... [New Window]
DKos Win! Not the place I'd normally go for economic enlightenment, but there's a very nicely done mini-tutorial on macro in the guise of a concordance to the Keynes - Hayek throw down video that I've featured before. Via the Instaprof. ... Could California Borrow This Guy II [New Window]
Chris Christie of New Jersey: You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world. The money does not grow on trees outside ... A practical guide to a first board meeting: Advice from the pros [New Window]
As I prep for my first Backupify board meeting, I asked more experienced pros for their take on setting the right tone and starting things off right for productive board participation. Here's what I got back: ... Change is coming to online shoping [New Window]
It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since we launched Half.com. (Unless you watch the video of Half.com's launch on the Today Show -- in which case you'll see how much I've aged since then). One of the things that's surprised me the ... Exposure To Cell Phone Radiation [New Window]
In a recent comment to a Smartmobs posting of 2008 Lisa points to a 10-month research review of the The Environmental Working Group (EWG) to understand the risks of radiation exposures from your cell phone. ... Geodon On Line - We Always Offer Lowest Prices on Internet [New Window]
A Geodon On Line, fter spending nine months in Hollywood, I've learned that pretty much all of the fame-seeking prima donnas out here need a clue. Fortunately, zantac Dosage, Risperdal Online, that's where I come in. ... Can Flash be saved? [New Window]
UPDATE: for a good counterpoint to this blog, see my new post titled Google +will+ save Flash. Let's go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn't work with a ton of ... Lynda.com makes Training Library now Smart Mobable [New Window]
In a post on lynda.blog.com, a new iPhone app is announced that facilitates the Lynda.com Online Training Library for iPhone users. The app gives access to paid members for all videos. Everyone can participate by choosing from over 5000 ... Digital Media & Graphic Design Instructor/Assistant Professor - St ... [New Window]
St. Louis Community College at Meramec is accepting applications for a full-time Instructor/Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Graphic Design (position reopened; adding to existing applicant poo... Do we need a new tech literacy? (Behind the big data services ... [New Window]
The technology that lies underneath the services we use every day is complex and changing quickly. Technologies like Hadoop, MapReduce, are changing how developers and architects build these services. As I was talking with Mike Olson, ... Last Child in the Woods [New Window]
Last Friday, my wife and I went to see Richard Louv speak. Richard is the author of Last Child in the Woods, Saving Our Children From Nature Deficit Disorder. His book and talk center on a series of alarming developments in the lives of ... Interview with Loren Feldman from South By Southwest 2009 [New Window]
At the 2009 SXSW, I did a quick little interview with my buddy Loren Feldman of 1938media. Despite the fact that I was massively hungover (note the sexy, drooping eyelids), I still managed to make a few good points about. What comes AFTER the Apple Tablet? Here's one display [New Window]
OK, the rumors are already FLOWING in about the Apple tablet. I'm putting the best news up on my Twitter Favorite's feed, so you can see the latest photos from Engadget and the latest reports from pundits and others (some of whom claim ... Burnout May Be Inevitable [New Window]
Today I have really come close to hitting my breaking point. Over the past few months, I have been working harder then I ever have in my entire life. There have been no vacations. Just work with the occasional party with friends but ... Twitter Business Model - By Steve Poland - web startup ideas and ... [New Window]
Twitter Business Model. By Steve Poland January 2, 2008. Jason Calacanis is talking about it after Allen Stern brought up the issue. While I agree with their various ideas, I see the ad model being similar to what Facebook has done ... Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire ... [New Window]
If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here: http://eepurl.com/hVpW. **Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco ... This Week in the New York Innovation Community - March 1st, 2010 [New Window]
If you'd like to receive this events list by e-mail every Monday morning, just sign up here. You know, if I was the kind of guy that pimped out his own firm's newly redesigned website on a weekly community newsletter that goes out to ... The Door Keeps Revolving [New Window]
Just heard from my friend Bobbi Kurshan, the Executive Director of Curriki, that she will be leaving that post on March 1st. I wish her well. Curriki will be looking for a new ED shortly and will very much continue to stay active in the ... Our new website... [New Window]
A lot has happened since we started First Round Capital in 2004. We've invested in over 75 amazing companies, grown our team to include 8 investment professionals, and opened offices in three states. We've also become the most active ... google supplemental weirdness [New Window]
i'll be the first to admit that i haven't kept on top of the way supplemental issues the way victoria secret lotion keeps on top of a stripper - hey, laugh if you want, i swear they *all* wear it. but, in the last week or so, ... The Sleeper Agents of Innovation [New Window]
Your industry? It's in trouble. Your most experienced execs can't stop the bleeding and they're jumping shipor you're having to throw them over the side to save money. Yet, somewhere deep within the halls of your enterprise, ... This Week in NYC Innovation - February 22, 2010 [New Window]
Are you still not getting this weekly in your e-mail inbox? Fill out this form so you're not missing anything. Nothing interesting to say here... I'm still trying to figure out this curling thing. How do you get into curling as a kid? ... Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire ... [New Window]
A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Over 1000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer ... Anecdote from an actual turndown note I wrote today [New Window]
"Growing up, my mom would overcook steak, and so I never really liked it. I didn't know I loved steak until I went to a work event at Del Frisco's--didn't really know how good steak could be. The problem in this scenario, ... apophenia Blog Archive Empowering Parents & Protecting ... [New Window]
The FCC published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the important topic of empowering parents and protecting youth in an era of an evolving media landscape. John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, and I took the opportunity to respond to the NOI on behalf ... speaking at two events [New Window]
i'll be speaking at two events in the next couple of weeks: ibf logo the israeli business forum of new york (ibf) is an apolitical, nonprofit organization facilitating quality business discussions among israeli professionals in new york ... Interested in Thesis? Get it Now in this Limited-offer Black ... [New Window]
Thesis Black Friday Sale. We're having a Black Friday Sale over at DIYthemes, and from now until supplies run out, you can get Thesis at an unprecedented 20% discount. To cash in, simply enter the following coupon code when you purchase ... Profile on Julie Aigner-Clark: Founder of Baby Einstein [New Window]
There was nothing on the market that I felt was any good, so I decided to make something myself, Julie Aigner-Clark. Julie Aigner-Clark is probably the ultimate momtrepreneur. Yet she didn't start out with any grand ambitions in the ... Check Your Website Against Our List of Key Design Points [New Window]
Your website is your window to the world and for many people will be the first impression that they get. You had better make it a good one during the second or two it usually takes for them to form their all-important opinion. ... Think Outside the Box With Social Media Marketing [New Window]
If your online efforts are stuck in a rut, you have spent a lot of time and effort in perfecting the appearance and feel of your website, but your visitor traffic has plateaued, then it is time for a boost and to think outside of the ... 12 New Year's Resolutions for Your Online Marketing Plan [New Window]
Most of us seem to have problems sticking to just one New Year's resolution, don't we? The truth is that if these resolutions really meant something to us, deep down inside, then we would keep up with the changes and wouldn't even have ... Second Life's new player builds toward Web [New Window]
Linden Labs has just released a new player for its virtual world, Second Life. This is important because it makes significant moves toward the Web and shows a new strategy: one of integrating into social networks (much of that shift has ... evaluating the real risk of swine flu [New Window]
i am sick and tired of all this swine flu craziness. does anyone remember the last pandemics which were going to wipe out humanity? - avian flu, sars, ebola, anthrax, etc... where did they all go?! and hey - weren't we all supposed to ... The new worldwide startup [New Window]
I've been traveling around the world studying how startups get formed. Yesterday I visited Bootup Labs in Vancouver. Last week I was at Startup Riot in Atlanta and while at the Olympics I've been hanging out with Saeed Amidi. ... Tip'd Launches Today with a Pearsonified Design [New Window]
Tip'd financial news. Even though we're closing in on the most pivotal presidential election in recent memory, the major news stories aren't happening in Washingtonthey're happening on Wall Street. With the Dow starting to look more ... VC - Back to the Future? [New Window]
I just came across a great report by Industry Little Hawk entitled the Venture Capital Rebound (pdf). In the report, the authors reach a similar conclusion to Paul Kedrosky (read Paul's great research for the Kauffman Foundation here) ... Finding the dreamers... [New Window]
Susan Boyle was a dreamer. She believed in her talent -- and just needed a platform to help the world hear it. This past year we saw what can happen when the right talent is combined with the right platform. ... Let's just add in a little virality [New Window]
It happens all the time. I'm meeting with an entrepreneur, who is telling me about a really innovative product idea for a consumer website. And I'm liking it. We're going back and forth on product ideas. And before I know it, ... The social failings of Google [New Window]
Orkut. Used it? I did back in 2002, but since then? No one I know uses it. Jaiku. Used it? I did back in 2006, but since then? No one I know uses it. Dodgeball. Used it? I did back in 2006, but since then? No one I know uses it. ... A TED responsibility [New Window]
Chris Anderson of TED The TED conference has given me a huge responsibility. They've handed me one of a small handful of press badges (as I understand it fewer than 10 are handed out every year). Regular tickets are $6000 each and the ... Why if you miss Siri you'll miss the future of the Web [New Window]
Siri is the most useful thing I've seen so far this year. But after playing with it, getting an interview with its CEO (video here on building43) it's even more important for you to pay attention to. It is the best example of what the ... untheming on-page optimization [New Window]
visit any major news or media site and you'll like find that its front page is a hodge-podge of links and/or snippets from stories buried deeper in. there is no such thing as theming on the front-page of a successful large site. ... 20 more hard core seo tips [New Window]
last year's article on hard core seo tips proved to be the most popular article on seo theory. it still receives a respectable amount of traffic. i was stuck for a topic that morning and decided to challenge people's preconceptions ... compete cannot measure search market share [New Window]
this will be the last month, until compete changes its reporting structure, that i attempt to measure search market share using compete's data. their inability to drill down to the sub-domain level renders a lot of their data virtually ... three levels of search engine optimization [New Window]
as i have noted previously, the searchable web is a three part ecosystem consisting of publishers, indexers, and searchers. all three groups can optimize search from their own perspectives, but you enjoy the most flexibility in ... 20 More Hard Core SEO Tips [New Window]
Last year's article on hard core SEO tips proved to be the most popular article on SEO Theory. It still receives a respectable amount of traffic. I was stuck for a topic that morning and decided to challenge people's preconceptions ... PR People Don't Break News [New Window]
Robert Scoble seems to have the impression that PR people provide Mike Arrington with breaking news on a regular basis. When it comes to product reviews he may be right. The only reason for this? Mike doesn't have aggressive competition ... My New Project Launches [New Window]
Over the past few months I have been hyping up a new project. Each of those projects have slowly morphed into another eventually resulting in the current one: The Social Times. The Social Times is my attempt at covering the social web ... Juno: The Little Miss Sunshine of 2007 - By Steve Poland - web ... [New Window]
Juno: The Little Miss Sunshine of 2007. By Steve Poland December 7, 2007. The new movie Juno is awesome. If you liked the movie 'Little Miss Sunshine', then you'll love this film just as much. There are still some free screenings ... Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media [New Window]
Knowing that I was going to speak at two different events within a week of one another to distinctly different audiences needing to hear a similar message, I decided to craft one talk for both Supernova and Le Web. ... Race and Social Network Sites: Putting Facebook's Data in Context [New Window]
A few weeks ago, Facebook's data team released a set of data addressing a simple but complex question: How Diverse is Facebook? Given my own work over the last two years concerning the intersection of race/ethnicity/class and social ... best of ondisruption [New Window]
guest post by zack urlocker. zack_3 as you may have noticed, my ondisruption blog posts have become less frequent lately as i'm busy with other projects. i will continue to post the occasional article and provide updates to past stories ... careers: should you pack your parachute? [New Window]
following his recent article "are you a sitting duck?" guest columnist zack urlocker shows the steps you should take to improve your own position if your company is being disrupted. mad_parachute just because it's time to pack your ... happy bail-out, detroit. sorry, but the time for action was 20 ... [New Window]
by zack urlocker. zack urlocker, a regular contributor to this blog and half of the creative team at the disruption brothers, offers his insights on the world of technology marketing and disruptive innovation. ... classic disruption: why wal-mart's movie plan will fail [New Window]
shelves update dec. 29, 2007: wal-mart shut down its video download service. original post nov. 29, 2006: wal-mart joins the battle for online videos in a disturbingly familiar way. in the worst kind of compromise, wal-mart is cramming ... Cincinnati Here We Come! [New Window]
Procter & Gamble is one of many corporations b... Image via Wikipedia. As luck would have it I am going to Cincinnati next week to spend some time with my friends at Procter & Gamble. They were kind enough to invite me to be on their ... resolutions [New Window]
chinese-ox at the end of every year i always get asked what my new year resolutions are. my answer is always the same.i don't make new year resolutions (or even chinese new year resolutions gong hei fat choi! :-). ... geography [New Window]
i love living and working in the bay area for many reasons...the weather, the people, the landscapes, the startups. it's the best place in the world to be a venture capitalist. however, there are envs_00011_medium_3 ... next, we drink coffee [New Window]
coffee as you might imagine, the conversation du jour in vc and entrepreneur circles is around the current market gyrations, the sequoia conclave (and kudos to those guys for kicking off this conversation), the subsequent very smart ... Mintuit! [New Window]
Mint. Image via Wikipedia. Mint.com announced today that they were acquired by Intuit for $170 million. It has been a short 3 years since we met Aaron Patzer at a STIRR dinner in the Valley. Seven days after we met, he had a term sheet ... congratulations to sendori! [New Window]
congratulations to ofer, dave and the folks at sendori for their acquisition by iac. we met them just over a year ago and loved their novel idea for an ad network selling domainer inventory. clearly iac loved it too and so now ofer and ... Are We Born Entrepreneurs? [New Window]
As I sit here waiting for a video interview to upload I began wondering about whether or not everybody and anybody is fit to be an entrepreneur. Most people would react harshly saying that it would be foolish to suggest that anybody can ... Happy New Year [New Window]
I'm preparing to go out for my new year's evening and I decided that now would be a great time to write a post. It's especially a great time since I haven't been writing on this blog for a while now. I am not gone, just focusing on my ... Amazing Dinner! [New Window]
I just returned from an amazing dinner with some insanely inspirational people. I had the opportunity to sit, eat and chat with Om Malik, Frank Gruber, Ryan Carson and his wife, Brian Williams, Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk and Gary's wife, ... iTunes Suffers Widespread Outages [New Window]
Not long ago I stopped pirating music as iTunes provided me with a great interface and a quick and easy way to get the music that I like. Additionally, I finally had some excess cash to spend on music! Since yesterday morning I've been ... EYODF Part 12 - Have an Amazing Partner - The Post Money Value [New Window]
Rule 1: Hire people smarter than you and get out of the way. Rule 0: Team up with an off the charts smart partner and increase your odds of winning by a factor of 100x. When I first kicked off this idea, the single most... Fixmo: Time to Make the Doughnuts (Beta) [New Window]
I first met Kevin Michaluk of Crackberry fame over the Internet when the BlackBerry Partners Fund was first started. Kevin came up with a zillion ideas for contests, giveaways, and just about anything that would promote the developer ... I Guess I Was NOT Supposed to Show Up - The Post Money Value [New Window]
Overhead while I was hanging out with a bunch of start-up folks: Her: "How was your holiday party last night?" Other her: "It was pretty good. We invited the VCs but they didn't show up so we really did have a great party, we could... You Can Still Learn Stuff From Microsoft [New Window]
I leave all things philosophical to the professionals and my best friend. The good or evil debate that is Microsoft? Best handled by others. But from a Start-Up perspective, you can learn from MSFT every now and then. Change the Rules: ... EYODF Part 13 - The Edge that is Canada [New Window]
For years I've been telling you about the amazing programs and services the Canadian Government offers businesses. Now, I get to practice what I've been preaching. The Canadian Trade Commission Service is a shining example of Government ... Inside the Crackberry Nation - The Post Money Value [New Window]
[Warning: Long post, sorry] It's been slightly over 24 hours since we kicked off the beta over in Crackberry Nation. I thought it would be useful to give you an inside look at what happened, what when right, wrong, etc. Google Can't Count Right [New Window]
Robert Scoble has posted about the number of Google subscribers each of the Techmeme leaderboard blogs have. For some reason though my subscription count in Google reader is showing up as only 196. According to feedburner though, ... Big Announcement Coming Soon [New Window]
I have been working feverishly over the past couple weeks. I am preparing to launch a new company. I previously wrote about working on Facebook development. I have decided instead to spend most of my time blogging instead. ... It's The Uncertainty, Stupid [New Window]
An NRO reader reports a Q&A with a Fed economist: Did he believe that the healthcare reform and related tax proposals, the proposed cap and trade legislation and the consequent increase in energy costs, the expiration of the Bush tax ... Zim added to osalt.com [New Window]
Zim-Wiki is a very useful open source application that allows you to organize your notes and thoughts. Simple to use and easy to learn, it supports inline images so that you can insert images from the web or scanned-in pictures and ... The Webpreneur Returns [New Window]
It has been two years since I wrote on this site. Just reading through the last posts I can tell how I've personally grown and best of all I now have gone through my first acquisition (which means I'm now a successful Webpreneur). ... Anatomy Of An Assassination [New Window]
On January 19th, 2010, a man named Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh died in a hotel in Dubai. Since his day job was a senior leader of the terrorist organization Hamas, with particular expertise in smuggling Iranian arms into the Gaza strip, ... Mobile World Congress [New Window]
We're covering some of the bigger stories out of Barcelona on the addictive blog. As the mobile industry gather there for the big event - around 50000 delegates - we're seeing all the big players staking out there territory ... Mobile Fix - jan 28 [New Window]
The new Mobile Fix from addictive is out and on the addictive site now. Topics include the ipad ( of course) a forecast saying apps will be a $30billion market by 2013, a look at the players in Mobile Metrics and our look at data which ... Political Counterproductivity [New Window]
Krugman: "...a vote for a Republican, no matter what you think of him as a person, is a vote for paralysis." Coyote: "OK, sign me up." Me too. Fascinating Analysis of Public Social Networks [New Window]
Pete Warden has scraped profile information from millions of Facebook pages, creating a (US-centric) web of personal connections. Some rough clustering yields: Facenet RTWT for further description of the analysis and clusters. ... social news smarts - event in san francisco [New Window]
today august 9th, the san francisco social media club has an event devoted to social news with kevin rose (digg) and chris tolles (topix) under the namesocial news smarts, community & user expectations on social news sites. ... Games on osalt.com [New Window]
Today we launches a new category - Games - here on Open Source Alternative. This has long been requested by our users - and we and now finally able to go live. We hope that this new addition to osalt.com will allow us to reach out and ... Serna Free added to osalt.com [New Window]
Serna Free is an open source, powerful XML editor. It is geared toward those with no experience and uses WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) for ease of use. Its appearance is a lot like a word processor so it is very easy to learn. ... digg is reaching out [New Window]
coming from someone at the source itself, we confirm something that may not come as a surprise to many digg is talking to some big - really big - media companies. and while we promised our source not to give more details (and we ... Smartphones bigger than social? [New Window]
One of the things I find surprising is how many marketing people diss iphones and apps as a niche market. My favourite was hearing that the buzz around apps is driven by the fact creative directors have iphones yet don't realise that ... Founder Frankensteins [New Window]
I've written before about the dangers of over-executive-ing early stage startups, particularly during the early phases when entrepreneurship is much more needed than executiveship. But the flip side is also true: as a startup ... Starting Social vs. Retrofitting Social [New Window]
One of the fun things about life in startup land is when a new wave of technology shows up such that startups who get it have an unfair advantage against incumbents who don't. Just like the first wave of Internet winners had this ... free ad space [New Window]
for an experiment i'm doing, i'd like to offer a month's worth of *free* ad space on several blogs for one of the following products: sonos; flip video (/pure digital); amazon kindle; chumby; nokia e71; virgin america; pleo ... web startup ideas - the list and the drought [New Window]
moleskin notepad i've published a ton of my web startup ideas in the past (see my archive page and scroll through them), but have shown a bit of a drought here on my site. i still get them daily, but now i write them in a little notepad ... Web Startup Ideas The List and The Drought - By Steve Poland ... [New Window]
Web Startup Ideas The List and The Drought. By Steve Poland December 6, 2007. Moleskin notepad I've published a ton of my web startup ideas in the past (see my Archive page and scroll through them), but have shown a bit of a drought ... Blogging and Microblogging [New Window]
Over the last year or so as I have been Tweeting and Facebooking more and more, I noticed that I was spending less and less time blogging. My urge to publish was being satisfied by sending out more status updates than my friends really ... Seeking Conflict [New Window]
The other day I was sharing with one of my portfolio CEOs some constructively critical feedback about one of his team members, prompting the CEO to ask me to share this directly with the individual himself. He added the very refreshing ... MuseScore added to osalt.com [New Window]
MuseScore is an open source cross platform music notation program that has a lot of very good features. Simple to operate, notes are entered on a virtual note sheet with your mouse, MIDI or keyboard. There are an unlimited number of ... FrostWire added to osalt.com [New Window]
FrostWire is an alternative peer-to-peer file sharing service on the Gnutella network that is modeled after LimeWire and in fact, derived its code from LimeWire Pro. You'll find it a bit different in appearance but if you've worked with ... Qtpfsgui added to osalt.com [New Window]
Qtpfsgui is a tool for tone mapping HDR photography (high dynamic range imaging), which combines several photos of the same thing but taken at different exposures, resulting in a true representation of what the human eye sees. ... ThinkingRock | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com [New Window]
Find other free open source alternatives for ThinkingRock. Open source is free to download and remember that open source is also a shareware and freeware alternative. Qt Creator | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com [New Window]
Find other free open source alternatives for Qt Creator. Open source is free to download and remember that open source is also a shareware and freeware alternative. Mumble added to osalt.com [New Window]
Mumble is voice chat software that can be used by any type of group but is tailored for gamers who enjoy chatting while gaming. It has an ingame overlay for DirectX9 and OpenGL based games and shows clearly who is speaking even when ... a note to my fellow women of seo [New Window]
a while back there was a huge debate about women in search. the topic being whether or not there were enough of us and some statements that women in search tend to be more geared towards search engine marketing rather than search engine ... tomorrow i'll be living free and dying hard [New Window]
if you know me, or even if you've been reading my blog for a length of time, then you'll know that i love bruce willis. i'ma huge fan of his work, with some of my favorites of his being sin city, hart's war, the sixth sense, ... Have a Soulful Christmas [New Window]
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i'm going to write about something completely trivial because it is and has been annoying the hell out of me. i am wondering what the hell the qualifications are for a word to become a word by google's standards. ... How to Survive the Affiliate Marketing Evolution - Sugarrae [New Window]
I've been wanting to blog about this for a while. If you're new or just starting out in affiliate marketing, this post is not for you. I understand that you won't neccessarily have the resources to pull this strategy off in it's ... Google, What the Hell Does it Take to Become a Word? - Sugarrae [New Window]
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mashable reports that pligg.com, the site that supports the favorite social news cms pligg, is for sale on sedo. the minumum bid is $25000 at this moment. but bidders beware. the cms itself is not for sale. only the domain, the software ... a glimpse to digg's new design [New Window]
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these how to seo questions are drawn from october's search referrals for seo theory. every month, people use thousands of queries to find specific types of content and they arrive here at this blog. some people stay and browse the ... guaranteed search engine ranking - guaranteed search engine ... [New Window]
conventional seo wisdom: if anyone offers you guaranteed search engine ranking or guaranteed search engine optimization, run far, far away very fast. today is the day that i support conventional seo wisdom at least when it comes ... the invisibility of seo credibility [New Window]
search engine roundtable found a discussion around the idea that real search engine optimization experts are invisible. i have considered weighing in on the original thread at jill whalen's highrankings forums. ... seo for subdomains - subdomains and seo [New Window]
search engines have been tolerant of subdomain spam for a very long time. google has been tightening its subdomain rules over the past couple of years but they still don't make a very clear distinction for what is and is not acceptable. ... twitter business model [New Window]
jason calacanis is talking about it after allen stern brought up the issue. while i agree with their various ideas, i see the ad model being similar to what facebook has done with their newsfeed advertisements but more importantly, ... music recommendation: the silent years [New Window]
i never talk about music on this blog, despite it being likely my biggest passion in life. one band that blows my mind is a small band out of detroit called 'the silent years'. their album can be played over, and over, and over again ... juno: the little miss sunshine of 2007 [New Window]
the new movie juno is awesome. if you liked the movie 'little miss sunshine', then you'll love this film just as much. there are still some free screenings going down of juno see if you can get some free passes to a theater near you. ... google ornaments - a holiday easter egg? [New Window]
i was just doing a search for .at domain, and the results page had ornaments displaying. as of right now, this search still does that, but i can't get any other searches doing that: share this. focusing up: cnet - a stock to watch [New Window]
i use to dabble in stocks in the dot-com days and before then, roughly 1996. it was the summer before my senior year in high school and i was in the shape of my life, because i'd wake up at 5:30am, go to the gym to work-out, ... What Can You Offer That Is Different? [New Window]
If you have been in business for some time, the chances are that you get so engrossed in the day-to-day operation and spend so much time effectively putting out fires rather than being fully focused, that you are really not seeing the ... What's been the best Social Media marketing channel for a business ... [New Window]
It's the start of a new poll, and this month we're asking, What's been the best Social Media marketing channel for a business and why? Twitter took 2009 by storm when entrepreneurs around the globe began using this viral form of ... best reality tv show format [New Window]
x-president of israel itzhak navon giving a history class. so here is proof that something good can emerge from a war situation. israeli tv has pretty much become 100% reality shows this year, importing all the american/european junk tv ... "journalism" [New Window]
logo_better_place globes published today an obnoxious article (hebrew) about better place - shai agassi's electric car venture. from the first word through the last, it was clearly setup as a hit-job by a clueless nobody "journalist" ... pricing display / demand creation ads [New Window]
following fred wilson's post about display advertising, and my post about demand-creation vs. demand-fulfillment advertising, i had another thought i'll share here regarding the pricing of "display" advertising (or in my terminology ... SEO for Subdomains Subdomains and SEO [New Window]
Search engines have been tolerant of subdomain spam for a very long time. Google has been tightening its subdomain rules over the past couple of years but they still don't make a very clear distinction for what is and is not acceptable. ...
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