RSSMixhttp://www.rssmix.com/This feed was created by mixing existing feeds from various sources.en-gb http://www.mpdailyfix.com/chocolate-the-new-health-food/MarketingProfs blogger Ted Mininni discusses how to market chocolate's health benefits.d387f6363bd7a5642e95101b9d889e52 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/dont-abandon-traditional-marketing-methods-integrate-and-interact/MarketingProfs blogger Christine Perkett discusses the importance of interacting with customers through traditional marketing, not just social media.f3101418e59e83d2124df15ec25214da http://www.mpdailyfix.com/18-use-cases-that-show-business-how-to-finally-put-customers-first/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.74987c0393dd223bb53d9a3946501678 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/make-a-referral-week-whats-your-idea/MarketingProfs blogger, Ann Handley, invites readers to participate in Make a Referral Week.abfb499757f2cfbc69126e9cd108253b http://www.mpdailyfix.com/home-sweet-home-brands/MarketingProfs blogger, Steve Woodruff, discusses the feel-good factor of home brands.e2dc9b6b3a4641940b6fca589b8c62cb http://www.mpdailyfix.com/entitled-gen-y-how-they-add-to-the-integrated-hybrid/MarketingProfs blogger, Lauren Fernandez, tells how Generation Y can add their technology and networking skills to your business team.69e2c4075dc34015335092563e2965c9 http://www.pearsonified.com/2009/02/celebrity.phpA Prozac Online Without Prescription, 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, prozac Online, Discount prozac No Rx, that's where I ...e2f15f2c8235f813f784df434b59888a http://www.pearsonified.com/2008/07/how-to-make-money-online.phpOne of the most irritating topics that people seem to want to talk about ad nauseum Cheapest prozac, 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 ...953a41ebefe6a33cd4acc60d0fd80e28 http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2008/08/flip-video-kill.htmlflip 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. ...027085f3084af1d84e9094efbf04f6e3 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1270Photo 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, ...cf5504ba35959313197a8f7882b7e9c9 http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2007/10/wsj-wal-mart-di.htmlthe 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 ...9c4150c6b04e0f9f6b4f1a2b3e721410 http://www.osalt.com/musescoreMuseScore 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 ...13e7b984ae1435ebf64500d79bde5153 http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2007/10/heineken.htmlthis 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. ...e374fc80300c275e13a538220e26c1ec http://www.osalt.com/frostwireFrostWire 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 ...719dc35119b1e4e59d9a6dedd192755a http://www.osalt.com/serna-freeSerna 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. ...886a3b4a8eb2b21830fe99795b81418a http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2007/10/careers-should-.htmlfollowing 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 ...a7e1d5f39fd26ef59030edb57e0d6617 http://scobleizer.com/2010/03/10/adobe-smacks-back-apple-over-ipad/ladies and gentlemen, in order to thanks for our company ( h t t p://w w w.p l z z s h o p.c o m/ )new and order costomers,my boss make a determind that you can get a best discount and a free gift if you shall buy something from our ...db69eaf21d83a659bf112d579e87efce http://redeye.firstround.com/2010/02/our-new-website.htmlA 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 ...724253d60af3fba6fc7f5566cb2381f0 http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/03/17/fire-away-with-questions/Shoemoney, after the weight loss surgery & its success, I cannot help but notice that your weight is creeping back up again. Are you going to make an effort to sort this out, or are you going to allow yourself to get into the condition ...86117c981e7a2827875d61879e43dc24 http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/03/19/soge-shirts/Soge Shirts is a site that sells funny shirts for men, women, and children. Some of these shirts are pretty funny, they have sayings like I'm here to drink not to meet you. and Human Stripper Pole. Also you can order each design in ...9137925dc35e41bfb54ae8fc5cc494d8 http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=3594A Yahoo patent describes how probabilities of different word meanings (including place names) may influence the reranking of search results.a7f6a70e6274a119bd3f062e112483af http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2010/03/mobile-fix-march-4.htmlThe new Mobile Fix is now up on the addictive blog.bcc5a521985423de3f0a2e69417652da http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2010/02/mobile-world-congress.htmlWe'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 In...90bfb1e38f64d62b0c78cad8fef9d698 http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2010/02/100-million-mobile-facebook-users.htmlSo 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.779356ac7a92bc9c87f1b46dd84affc8 http://www.smartmobs.com/2010/03/14/buzzbox-results-sxsw-digg-20/BREAKING NEWS CNET by Daniel Terdiman @GreeterDan Mashable 'New Version of Digg Revealed', by @BenParr RT gervis Unveiled at #SXSW Digg 2.0 , 'faster,' 'instant' http://tinyurl.com/ydhbmb8 more Buzzbox results ...d7edc91bee2d93401027001fb67c09cc http://www.smartmobs.com/2010/03/14/danah-boyd-sxsw-privacy-and-publicity-its-about-control/Social Networking Expert Danah Boyd keynoted the Opening Remarks at SXWS on Saturday, March 13 about privacy and publlicity. Boyd said that privacy is not dead, but that a big part of our notion of privacy relates to maintaining control ...074b56d02c893ea3fb94e230a48621c5 http://www.smartmobs.com/2010/03/16/college-students-mostly-begin-research-at-wikipedia/A Wired Campus article reports on a study of student usage of Wikipedia. The finding that the most common reason students go to Wikipedia is to begin research belies the frequent grousing that students probably do not get excellence in ...7811fc39722798f587331f26a49cc9a5 http://www.smartmobs.com/2010/03/09/book-openmobile-how-is-it-impacting-the-mobile-industry/It is not often one comes across a book which encourages an entire industry to reflect upon its essence and purpose. Ajit Jaokar and Anna Gatti have delivered a compelling treatise which challenges the core of the mobile industry to ...819a9e1f2ee07ac901d6b799e0410216 http://www.smartmobs.com/2010/03/19/digital-divide-closing-with-major-mobile-help/watkinscover A report at SPOTLIGHT begins: As the digital divide closes, thanks in no small part to mobile media, the question is no longer who's using digital media, but how. The SPOTLIGHT report review ideas from an interview with ...4b12185666e1187a9b927820718e077d http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/j/Front-End-Developer/614424Get hired as a `Front End Developer `. Find gigs and jobs.4e6fbe437a55ce40218b258a7693f3cd http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/j/Webmaster/604848Role: 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 Webmaster will implement web pages, maintain content ...93336c6c3e4822d897d309f78812987f http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/j/Front-End-Developer/609607Get hired as a `Front-End Developer`. Find gigs and jobs.415894c83db5b55a145b13424f4e4575 http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/entrepreneur-university/best-small-business-books-of-2009/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 ...dc3db1523d37e82d7adaeecac2110c13 http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/03/19/facebook-users-favor-online-news-sitesInternet users who click on links posted on Facebook that lead to news and media websites are more loyal to those portals than those coming from Google News, according to new data from Hitwise. Among the most popular top 5 print media ...3f29204b28288a204b415c0a9bbdbacc http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/03/19/oneriot-launches-real-time-ads-based-on-trending-topicsReal-time search engine OneRiot has launched RiotWise Trending Ad Units, which automatically refresh based on what's trending on the social web. Previously, OneRiot's Trending Ads were available only via OneRiot's API, ...28cebaad269910fba062c1c8a4ce2f52 http://videos.webpronews.com/2010/03/19/the-impact-of-ftc-regulation-on-advertising/WebProNews has extensively covered the ongoing saga regarding the FTC and regulation of online advertising. Continuing our coverage, we recently spoke to Jordan Mitchell, the Vice President of Data Intelligence at the Rubicon Project, ...20382318e17145fa42e1feaf0c440322 http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/03/19/march-madness-on-demand-player-see-record-first-day-trafficCBS and the NCAA said Friday their March Madness on Demand (MMOD) live-streaming video player attracted record traffic for the first day of the men's basketball tournament. In total, there were 3.4 million hours of live streaming video ...41b017cc189b8e4a856ed0381bdadf8f http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2010/03/19/twitter-responsible-for-very-little-visits-to-news-and-mediaThe latest post from Hitwise discusses where users travel after leaving Twitter. The post further breaks down the various news and media sites which receive the greatest traffic from Twitter. Twitter.com accounted for 0.14% of upstream ...06144eaa459c094a472acb9e709fed3f http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/03/19/nielsen-time-spent-on-social-networks-up-60-yoyFacebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other such sites are - in general, anyway - doing quite well on a global basis, according to new stats from Nielsen. Nielsen revealed this afternoon that people all over the world are dedicating ...6e93da767a7ef547b10a3db4511f8640 http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2010/03/19/a-look-back-at-sxsw-2010As usual, this year's South by Southwest Interactive conference was a blur. Between the people, the parties, and purveyors of all things bacon, it was a twenty ring circus of the sublime and bizarre. There was no shatteringly impactful ...18c5a14d37a1b19061dc08136c1b3e18 http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/03/19/kentucky-supreme-court-favors-state-in-online-gambling-caseThe Kentucky Supreme court issued a ruling Thursday that it will not lift the freeze by registrars of 141 Internet gambling domain names unless an owner of the names comes forward. The ruling by the Court is not final, but the decision ...e65562d95c2655e1261766e4643a0262 http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2010/03/19/detailed-look-at-reasons-people-visit-various-social-sitesAs with traditional media, it's different strokes for different folks on social media sites. And knowing your audience's needs and preferences is just as valid in PR today as it ever was. According to an analysis of social sites by ...2ebc48a22aa81fe342b2f3311a9c9a81 http://vcmike.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/that-credibility-thing/... December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006. MyBlogLog. Recent Readers. View My Profile. March 2010 ...b3195b21996c3691f1f1108bf3ddcd2c http://vcmike.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/i-just-saw-the-coolest-company/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. ...f20f8596a030b9ace08a0bb44313120c http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/02/21/chatroulette-by-sarita-yardi.htmlSarita 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 ...e2d26b0c2d7731ec1c0747dfe6a399ce http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/03/14/speaking-about-privacy-and-publicity.htmlYesterday I gave the opening keynote at SXSW to over 5000 people (OMG, that room was huuuuuuuge). My talk was about privacy and publicity and I spent a lot of time pushing back against the notion that privacy is dead. ...bdb8aebe897f884bb2f0710d0c9c56d7 http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/02/21/chatroulette-from-my-perspective.htmlI'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. ...31ec4f9fa2d034469ef3a55dec921382 http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/28/upcoming_mary_g.htmlIt 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 ...4723af14de3569b878565cfce62425ef http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/25/public_by_defau.htmlThis 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, ...81b983e84e44948467f0739bb02ddaa1 http://calacanis.com/2010/03/19/new-mahalo-profile-pages-based-on-cassandra-are-up/It's a crazy, big ambitious project and we're ahead of schedule! Right now I would say we are 60% done, which means in 2-3 years Mahalo.com will be a top 25 site. We're super excited with the progress to date. ...248d04fb6ac23d3218329cade4d96d48 http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/12/29/race_and_social.htmlA 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 ...c349f7991a8d809dd222ccd67b32e47f http://calacanis.com/2010/03/18/viacomm-vs-youtubegoogle-legal-docs-are-released-httpwww-mahalo-comviacom-v-google/Viacomm vs. YouTube/Google legal docs are released! http://www.mahalo.com/viacom-v-google. | Permalink | Comments [0]. No Comments . No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL. Leave a comment. Name (required) ...8a43ef834db0a751422df34d60e6f977 http://calacanis.com/2010/03/19/how-to-be-an-amazing-spouse-make-your-partner-a-greek-yogurt-parfait-w-strawberries-honey-chocolate-granola/How to be an amazing spouse: make your partner a greek yogurt parfait w/ strawberries, honey + chocolate granola! I love my wife! | Permalink | Comments [0]. No Comments . No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. ...ad669d5b36e9ab1e0dc9c3001310e080 http://calacanis.com/2010/03/19/steve-jobs-ridding-66-bmw-motorcycle-in-natgeo-featurehigh-techhigh-risk-high-life-in-silicon-valley-oct-82/SILICON VALLEY appears on no map, but this former California prune patch, an hour's drive south of San Francisco, is the heartland of an electronics revolution that may prove as far-reaching as the industrial revolution of the 19th ...153f83657cd26059bf0f60c015e2e6a5 http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/12/10/do_you_see_what.htmlKnowing 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. ...55a8c2922eaeb25df267a435f5c02a4c http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/16/facebooks_move.htmlWhen 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 ...f5c14b54433a0e83739fcde7d6fc8252 http://calacanis.com/2010/03/19/breaking-divers-may-have-found-the-body-of-natalee-holloway-httpbit-ly9akgv8/Natalee Holloway's body may have been found by divershttp://www.mahalo.com/natalee-holloway. | Permalink | Comments [0]. No Comments . No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL. Leave a comment. Name (required) ...81d448972451c5f8785533d7bb3b810e http://www.mpdailyfix.com/marketing-the-shack/The New York Times says The Shack has been a surprise best seller. Published in over 30 languages around the world, The Shack now has over 7 million copies in print and ranked first on the New York Times best seller list for 70 weeks. ...0f2c61da6deee43e3a02f497723822e1 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/is-your-presentation-style-out-of-style/MarketingProfs blogger Helena Bouchez shares tips for a successful and dynamic presentation.a8e24be6fd631a16aab57c4569636dc0 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1286George's recent post about data visualization makes me realize I need to get around to sharing some of the work we're doing here. My main research group at BYU is spending most of its time these days on educational data mining and ...262efc3c800d662dd6d47f4e7d12c78d http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/17/marc-benioffs-enterprise-ambitions-first-look-at-salesforce-chatter/Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, has big ambitions for the enterprise. He no longer wants Saleforce to be seen as a service just for salespeople. He's going after the whole pie. Today he is releasing a new social service that looks ...074c6c201a64c18d4b034ccb2b3ef6bf http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=3586Three patents granted today to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo all describe how each of the search engines might take a close look at page addresses, or URLs on dynamic web sites. I wrote about the patent from Microsoft back when it had ...e736db253b246180fbf9ffac0ac34d6b http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2009/12/torquest-goes-gold.htmlMy 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 ...793ebc5058f1ea17eee32d051246be8e http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2009/12/whats-2-minutes-worth-ask-jing-and-say-it-visually.html[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 ...dcd4557df7f8296dbd25c8262ee3726a http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2010/01/haiti-relief-app-by-xtreme-labs.htmlMy 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. ...5cbfb6cf6ca0066d7c879b7176292dc3 http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2010/01/failing-2010---fashionable.htmlWired 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, ...2210872ff893d91323f59bebd5ed01a2 http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/03/17/my-secret-to-dominating-digg-com-years-ago/Ok I have a story to share one I been telling for a while for fun and always meant to post but just never gotten around to it. I used to be addicted to try to make the front page of digg but I often had trouble hitting the front page. ...b53bbe59e78598f9787d62a1256e88d8 http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/03/13/how-to-track-what-peop/Recently on my blog a commentator asked me if I sell their email. They also said since they started putting in their email into forms to get free stuff around the internet they started getting a TON of spam. ...9b69a800ac6e10e0dd01c1436a40f99a http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/03/12/limited-time-free-list-doubling-software/Frank Kern is in the final days of his List Control launch and is saving the best for last. Until Monday you can download his free list building software he had developed that runs on about any webhost. Its in PHP and he completely runs ...a99a4429a521f071c12420a8c56bc084 http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2010/02/mobile-fix-february-5.htmlNew 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. ...d7813293ac2cc2032552ea8c9d13b216 http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/03/16/make-your-life-easier-in-2-simple-steps/Welcome to the first Tech Talk Tuesday. Most readers of this blog are self-employed in some fashion. If you are, you probably know that there are hassles that come with being self-employed. One of the biggest is the amount of paper that ...d0c8de6cb73b24f95190d82c3bcb1462 http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/03/14/this-week-in-the-shoemoney-marketplace-10/New listings placed this week in the ShoeMoney Marketplace: My 4000000 Dollar Strategy; Are YOU Generating Passive Income; LogoNerds.com Crazy Logo Designs Under 50; THE ULTIMATE SEO PACKAGE- WIKI POWER LINKING Wholesale prices 25 ...28e13b749783d63a092bcfb01f180ddd http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/03/18/it-just-got-real-win-a-pass-to-the-playboy-mansion-party/A week from tomorrow is the cutoff to enter the ShoeMoney System Theme song contest. We only have a couple entries so I am not sure what the hell you guys are waiting for but it just got real. ...188e09a11225fdb8c4a7a78337ae269c http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/03/15/the-underground-6-rocked/Just got back from Yanik Silver's Underground 6 conference. What a really unique experience. There is not many speakers maybe a dozen over the 4 day event, and each speaker get 70 some minutes. It was really like a bunch of keynotes ...73f4ee6eaa0ef6db44edb475431d231f http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2010/02/mobile-fix.htmlThe 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 ...125f58e6c613b688d30af331cdb5894d http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/12/45-fresh-useful-javascript-and-jquery-techniques-and-tools/Yes, this is another round-up of fresh and useful Javascript techniques, tools and resources. But don't close the tab yet, as you might find this one very useful. In this selection we present calendars, forms, buttons, navigation, ...07706a1a85228d69e9328bb3e97e05e4 http://www.smartmobs.com/2010/03/14/activity-streams-aim-to-be-dna-of-the-future-web/Louis Gray reviews on Louisgray.com the presentation of Chris Messina at the South by Southwest Interactive event SXSW. Open source advocate Chris talked on how he and others in the community, both at Google and outside of it, ...2c9049692d44225dba4beeb5bb7694c1 http://www.smartmobs.com/2010/03/12/24-minute-video-on-crap-detection-101/The all-important literacy of determining the credibility of information found on the Internet, discussed, analyzed, and dissected in a 24 minute video. A companion to my blog post of the same title. (Voice-over interviewer in some ...d5b2c87bdbb8f46530a50288999d9a51 http://www.smartmobs.com/2010/03/12/twitter-pace-and-power-users/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: ...8c735f41080687f71de2cb30704616b3 http://blog.stevepoland.com/google-ornaments-a-holiday-easter-egg/Google Ornaments a Holiday Easter Egg? By Steve Poland December 22, 2007. 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 ...0287a998f79f8d43b91a92525cac208f http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2010/3/17/five-applications-that-should-be-platformsmdashdropbox-event.htmlIf you think you're going to satisfy every last one of your potential customers, it's simply not going to happen. For every application, the list of features that your userbase will ask you to implement is a mile long. ...4169ac46b9d6e3b534537a0d5a842a48 http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2010/3/18/donrsquot-build-a-content-ghost-town.htmlWhen a reader lands on my blog, they're going to run into a lot of people. First off, there's me. I am front and center when it comes to being in close proximity to what I write. 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The recap story noted that Nick Sabean focuses on process and the "Alabama system." That is not to say that winning is not ...ad317f93bc4a007dcdde83db3a56abbd http://willprice.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-long-does-it-take-to-hit-50m-in.htmlVery 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 ...f1770179aa7626b77eb6737fa4154fa2 http://willprice.blogspot.com/2009/09/living-history-larry-ellison.htmlLast 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, ...c153162e5e95469e87d8562e9dcbefa8 http://willprice.blogspot.com/2009/09/healing-of-america.htmlTR 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 ...721f5a892c6531344ce4cdc8d1de29d5 http://willprice.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-blog.htmlI 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. ...0fb0f3b0646954e561f1482c74113b80 http://redeye.firstround.com/2010/01/sharing-and-exchanging.htmlDSC_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 ...8675885d0f8b44a8f20add71fb2f9f5a http://redeye.firstround.com/2009/10/company-math-vs-vc-math.htmlFred 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 ...5b32b99afbf9dcf5eee7956b786e7a84 http://redeye.firstround.com/2010/02/introducing-the-first-round-capital-key-hire-wire.htmlOne 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. ...d8c13d6ecacd8d7dfdfa89512b77431d http://redeye.firstround.com/2009/10/i-believe-that-as-the-world-has-gotten-flatter-over-the-last-decade-its-created-a-big-opportunity-for-venture-in.htmlNYC2. 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. ...2787e065eb089e9570b38d357b5a7df4 http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2010/01/mobile-fix-.htmlTo 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, ...0807c515f5f6cc84f64f1c00392ffb16 http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2010/01/interesting-times-in-uk-tv.htmlFrom 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 ...f6ec2cb33a4bf97e5a5ff86f2b02e147 http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/19/whose_voice_do.htmlGrowing 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 ...3f5d2483e69c92d9259e604f32c03e5c http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/could-california-borrow-this-guy-ii.htmlChris 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 ...4951e9411c30e2b4ef841b11b9fff148 http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/the-roving-eye-keynes-v-hayek-crib-genomics-learning-curve-ghosts-of-the-last-bubble.htmlDKos 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. ...6c9204c4d75ed2ee60db4b306d038511 http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2010/3/3/a-practical-guide-to-a-first-board-meeting-advice-from-the-p.htmlAs 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: ...30c48ba5d2ad9a2cba33379b26e8e1d8 http://scobleizer.com/2010/03/05/do-we-need-a-new-tech-literacy-behind-the-big-data-services-like-twitter-facebook-use/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, ...ad0c3ac661da97bfd7968d66512eba4e http://willprice.blogspot.com/2009/09/last-child-in-woods.htmlLast 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 ...865ff3134994b045360b747987ebdc13 http://thewebpreneur.com/2007/11/14/burnout-may-be-inevitable/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 ...670928e8148eca692ef54a0196cdfcaf http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2010/3/1/this-week-in-the-new-york-innovation-community-march-1st-201.htmlIf 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 ...eb96d8cf72ead58a24aff8cd43222c1e http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2010/2/26/stories-of-opportunity-from-the-first-round-capital-key-hire.htmlIf 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 ...f90da82f0180d3cd6e64caa0ac9cb697 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1259Just 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 ...a2f833c754b89003c7a32e9f7c874c47 http://www.sugarrae.com/blog/google-supplemental-weirdness/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, ...f67ddf6b3de8227c0407e42af4f6a17c http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2010/2/25/the-sleeper-agents-of-innovation.htmlYour 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, ...ff6cf08badd5dac0c024190285fe567a http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/02/24/empowering-parents-protecting-children-in-an-evolving-media-landscape.htmlThe 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 ...dd219393d737b96356ac5ccf96d51d45 http://www.webx0.com/2009/07/speaking-at-two-events.htmli'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 ...99e91fc4215f37d6c087871396230990 http://www.pearsonified.com/2008/11/thesis-black-friday-sale.phpThesis 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 ...49f323d91fe2d78575277deac892b3d2 http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/internet-marketing/think-outside-the-box-with-social-media-marketing/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 ...f9b81ea95c82ad8846140c3aa0139e5d http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/profile-on-julie-aigner-clark/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 ...6733cfd8dbf6153d6e1397dbbf2f560b http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/internet-marketing/check-your-website-against-our-list-of-key-design-points/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. ...271b3fa5e430b8ed01714310ea9f291b http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/internet-marketing/12-new-years-resolutions-for-your-online-marketing-plan/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 ...2660cca08cc42d30fa90f76620c35639 http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/23/second-lifes-new-player-builds-toward-web/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 ...cc288bb8a43c24c66ab0a9b67c28d49a http://www.webx0.com/2009/05/evaluating-the-real-risk-for-pandemics.htmli 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 ...f3b0463b8dc00c84b6a65eaf770aa143 http://www.pearsonified.com/2008/10/tipd-launch.phpTip'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 ...36359cf9decfb2a88c977ecf1e0fb40d http://redeye.firstround.com/2009/10/vc-back-to-the-future.htmlI 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) ...5c7887a1f273296e07b664cfe8c308b5 http://redeye.firstround.com/2009/11/lets-just-add-in-a-little-virality.htmlIt 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, ...26358b1c64d5aa54c208b16d4745e0ba http://redeye.firstround.com/2009/12/finding-the-dreamers.htmlSusan 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. ...956ab4024357e60350e49214008c32dd http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/09/the-social-failings-of-google/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. ...2f91dfbb13d5ced410dd75e464783ebc http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/08/a-ted-responsibility/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 ...c4e600eecbd24480b2f9cd51d6e3afc2 http://scobleizer.com/2010/02/08/why-if-you-miss-siri-youll-miss-the-future-of-the-web/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 ...c08e117cbfa725d8ca8b2cb660991d17 http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/2008/10/14/compete-cannot-measure-search-market-share/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 ...8dd7b47381a02e011598de01dd5ca10d http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/2008/10/23/untheming-on-page-optimization/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. ...622815da0747a08eb18b0d9feb0d00dc http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/2008/10/15/three-levels-of-search-engine-optimization/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 ...20e67c956c21eccc1c540c45dd7c842e http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/2008/10/16/20-more-hard-core-seo-tips/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 ...1907d85755c329a9944a8bbff27b8b3c http://www.seo-theory.com/2008/10/16/20-more-hard-core-seo-tips/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 ...44f75c147df14846394db3b2b23af597 http://thewebpreneur.com/2007/10/19/pr-people-dont-break-news/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 ...836ca5b054fb73e896b7b5e98387fd3f http://thewebpreneur.com/2007/11/12/my-new-project-launches/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 ...564cbd4e0681c5f335e10ee82c6af9cc http://blog.stevepoland.com/juno-the-little-miss-sunshine-of-2007/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 ...63ed080e6fcee40bcb8514ad337b578d http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2007/09/careers-should-.htmlfollowing 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 ...75c8f668deb704bec568c9833cdf2388 http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2008/03/best-of-ondisru.htmlguest 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 ...ff95c13a31d5fb8caebe7eead0a37a9b http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2009/01/detroit-disrupted.htmlby 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. ...fc8e65fffb6478f77b15dfb8b40322d3 http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2007/12/classic-disrupt.htmlshelves 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 ...cc522ece343b1177cc4ebad8ac5f1f5b http://permanentrecord.firstround.com/2009/01/congratulations-to-sendori.htmlcongratulations 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 ...061e8979fd05fa420f96574cbf01692b http://permanentrecord.firstround.com/2008/09/geography.htmli 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 ...70e3d8a5c046e17a72a7661d43e18f20 http://permanentrecord.firstround.com/2008/10/next-we-drink-c.htmlcoffee 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 ...e2f21b78fd08cec2823c364867299222 http://permanentrecord.firstround.com/2009/07/cincinnati-here-we-come.htmlProcter & 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 ...6386a785a250fb582b12cce80e0bff48 http://permanentrecord.firstround.com/2009/09/mintuit.htmlMint. 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 ...7ca29924a975bfdbb3ee7693f934ce6d http://permanentrecord.firstround.com/2009/01/resolutions.htmlchinese-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! :-). ...597916154974025d19bd81d9c1e64d16 http://thewebpreneur.com/2007/12/31/happy-new-year/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 ...8e88b74eeb7da6f8f1757cc63d49999f http://thewebpreneur.com/2008/01/11/are-we-born-entrepreneurs/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 ...05077c37e00818f6f27dbd176f08b003 http://thewebpreneur.com/2007/11/19/itunes-suffers-widespread-outages/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 ...95069aa1398cc653a6740600ee90be01 http://www.thewebpreneur.com/2007/10/31/amazing-dinner/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, ...e241a14bc2d1abbd704c2335103be333 http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2010/01/eyodf-part-13---the-edge-that-is-canada.htmlFor 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 ...a5542e69939bf7640074b9b31507f9ae http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2010/01/you-can-still-learn-stuff-from-microsoft.htmlI 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: ...2e733aff916c638f5162734075e4e06b http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2009/12/fixmo-time-to-make-the-doughnuts-beta.htmlI 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 ...3914d5e72b20fcd3cdc35918711dfb8f http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2009/12/i-guess-i-was-not-supposed-to-show-up.htmlOverhead 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...2809a41636c9082357a087b879147227 http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2009/12/inside-the-crackberry-nation.html[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.5095033fbd688bcfb3861eaec4f9458f http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2009/12/eyodf-part-12---have-an-amazing-partner.htmlRule 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...b350e50f54b441ad6cc52e6bb2a8c482 http://thewebpreneur.com/2007/10/10/big-announcement-coming-soon/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. ...f3de63efb5d09910d42ba462a4e480f2 http://www.thewebpreneur.com/2007/10/14/google-cant-count-right/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, ...fa447eef74c56f83d03bd20d1f4453c2 http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2010/02/its-the-uncertainty-stupid.htmlAn 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 ...b2c71b983f047eb598ce05c4b438893c http://www.osalt.com/zimZim-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 ...7256b089aca2d7533c16b7134e26fbb9 http://www.thewebpreneur.com/2010/02/18/the-webpreneur-returns/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). ...8579f06f4371150a0f906d3f47ba8e67 http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2010/02/anatomy-of-an-assassination.htmlOn 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, ...4dd46fbe3750572acc38c912d8ce2105 http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2010/01/mobile-fix-jan-28.htmlThe 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 ...ae4a393d4197b56c2d9823ae160e2532 http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2010/02/fascinating-analysis-of-public-social-networks.htmlPete 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. ...93a9d5a6f33674d4d5b2335e5528b34b http://due-diligence.typepad.com/blog/2010/02/politial-counteproductivity.htmlKrugman: "...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.5f09feab98f4036dd54c9675163ebb33 http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/social-news-smarts-event-in-san-francisco/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. ...774c598d938336d6c613cab2f76f7241 http://www.osalt.com/2009/10/games-on-osalt.comToday 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 ...2a005970d2f32426495e3389cb48fcad http://www.osalt.com/serne-freeSerna 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. ...6505555b3ba1ee2537529231ab38d668 http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/digg-is-reaching-out/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 ...582ff1d203b7ca699184e5ba37a81c41 http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2010/01/smartphones-bigger-than-social.htmlOne 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 ...b76bdf1e7e87b5b99d611f8cafe0ea82 http://vcmike.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/starting-social-vs-retrofitting-social/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 ...6b2adc204edaf46ff1b5ff8c80ce22c1 http://vcmike.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/founder-frankensteins/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 ...e596da537a5b5a6b616594d9327e4fa4 http://www.webx0.com/2009/02/free-ad-space.htmlfor 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 ...cea48f4648ebe3992e46305d48eeeb06 http://blog.stevepoland.com/web-startup-ideas-the-list-and-the-drought/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 ...2a5bc2b6a5c4f53fdf200382b242d16d http://www.techquilashots.com/2007/12/06/web-startup-ideas-the-list-and-the-drought/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 ...99e47c7932f0c2fa8699362d839a7d5b http://vcmike.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/seeking-conflict/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 ...137370a42b4bfddb1e85fa7ff5c549e6 http://www.osalt.com/mumbleMumble 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 ...6acfecff95bcd45551fe67a8b2bcc1f9 http://www.osalt.com/qt-creatorFind 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.7ad41434b4ccd3257314f53540024c87 http://www.osalt.com/thinkingrockFind 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.da64b9ef6d921e2133dc6697c00bcf8e http://www.osalt.com/qtpfsguiQtpfsgui 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. ...951ffbe493a6458c0984955a226529eb http://www.sugarrae.com/blog/how-to-survive-the-affiliate-evolution/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 ...d24f9f009a89a4bca7fb598c783b822b http://www.sugarrae.com/a-note-to-my-fellow-women-of-seo/I agree with all of your points, Rae. Speaking only for myself and my own personal experiences, I appreciate women who work in any tech field. This is because my peers in Tech were rarely American. For whatever reasons, women aren't ...0ae6ed44cb38f353d004482bbdc35968 http://www.sugarrae.com/tomorrow-ill-be-living-free-and-dying-hard/Please tell me that box has never been opened. It's out here mid next week refreshingly soon after release in the states and I definitely want to catch it then. Between Die Hard 4 (what's with the .0?) and Shrek III there's no ...5dd8052ac9142439de8b94e8725a1e14 http://simonandrews.typepad.com/big_picture/2009/12/have-a-soulful-christmas.htmlWe're great fans of curating content, and so we've put together this playlist of soulful christmas songs from YouTube. It's an alternative to the rubbish played in every shop at the moment. Because it's a selection of what is already on ...4f17e6ab42f43d80e7b568d1d0135f63 http://www.sugarrae.com/google-what-the-hell-does-it-take-to-become-a-word/A search for the term chsugar returns 1900 results. Even a search for ch sugar returns only a little over 5000 results. Yet a search for sugarrae returns over 130000 results. Well, let's look at some other things that may or may not ...9646df83ecb791e0c1607939ff6a174d http://www.sugarrae.com/blog/tomorrow-ill-be-living-free-and-dying-hard/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, ...4d50106b80f853ea5f221806b70279ee http://www.sugarrae.com/blog/a-note-to-my-fellow-women-of-seo/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 ...295adff790cc2ef0344f7fd2020ed994 http://www.sugarrae.com/blog/google-what-the-hell-does-it-take-to-become-a-word/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. ...298f84b89c64d47e339c49a3ab534ebb http://www.sugarrae.com/how-to-survive-the-affiliate-evolution/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 ...452d4892bbc5acf6f2ec7154470356a8 http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/will-digpicz-survive/techcrunch (and others) wonders if the recently launched digpicz will be receiving a c&d letter from digg's lawyers. this is an area nobody can know the answer for sure - you know, lawyers are lawyers - but from what we know, ...401461e8ffb3a226f520b64c4b44ffb6 http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/publish2-or-yet-another-social-news-site-aiming-to-change-the-world/today was the day the blogosphere - well, at least a small part of it - talked about publish2, a site that has not launched yet (why do people keep doing that?) but that, in the words scott karp (the founder), it will create the ...ca8c58f99ddbd6c08ba2cbba8cb6b4cc http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/the-pligg-sale-do-people-know-what-theyre-bidding-on/it seems that many people are not very clear about what's for sale and not in the sale of pligg.com. of course, those familiar with the pligg history shouldn't wonder, but it seems that the majority of people aren't. let's see. ...39d0326e49f3fdefef6d53187b141f99 http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/netscape-bigger-than-digg/jason calacanis, the man who transformed netscape into a social news site, recently said that netscape is bigger than digg according to quantcast, and asked at the end can anyone get to the bottom of these stats!??!?! ...7a8625ca0ff154152dab7b2ca7582dbc http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/digg-considering-to-acquire-two-social-news-sites/the social news insider has got some very solid tips claiming that digg is in serious talks with both corank and meneame, with a possible acquisition in mind. corank is a site where anyone can create their own social news site. ...631593996f509176452c6190a12e0ec4 http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/pliggcom-is-asking-150k/remember pligg - the site - went up for sale not long ago? well, despite its bumpy road towards a sale, after the listing received amost 5000 views, only 8 bids have been made, and apparently, none of them has been good enough for the ...a06c1128a50c62be20b52b82c1eae2bd http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/pliggcom-for-sale/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 ...7e46b87d3dad0c95708179865fcaf0ef http://socialnews.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/a-glimpse-to-diggs-new-design/several blogs and forums have been posting what might be a screenshot of the announced integration of videos and news at digg (screenshot below). nothing really exciting here. noticed kevin rose's sencente other cool stuff coming as ...d309251ce9ec829ebc6ac5a7af143d9d http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/business-savvy/kick-start-your-new-year/Almost all of us make some kind of New Year's resolutions. It's almost as if it's traditional to do so, whether we like it or not! Have you considered your resolutions for 2010? While many of us intend to change something here or there ...0b17eef6dfd2481e3e4ad0dfdd7e1cd1 http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/modeling-masters/profile-on-sam-walton/Capital isn't scarce; vision is Sam Walton. Sam Walton could be one of the most understated and under-recognized names in the history of the United States. Much to his delight, his influence on the very way that we live went largely ...65560515e65292309e12fdfd43309deb http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/internet-marketing/how-to-design-a-winning-email-newsletter/An e-mail newsletter is still one of the strongest marketing tools you can deploy. Always remember that this type of marketing campaign should be subtle and not intrusive. Over the years, e-mail spam has quite rightly developed a very ...458346017ed2fa92aa2a662367a1b760 http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/how-to-seo-how-to-queries-people-actually-use/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 ...9b284f3c1fb4fa61141268bc320ca66b http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/2008/10/31/guaranteed-search-engine-ranking-guaranteed-search-engine-optimization/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 ...5be7087d212d30ba304755dc2d260134 http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/2008/10/30/the-invisibility-of-seo-credibility/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. ...d823ad15c5b57e8faf8d39925004168e http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/2008/10/29/seo-for-subdomains-subdomains-and-seo/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. ...e999289a3b9d29b220b2fbc8a2a73fa1 http://www.techquilashots.com/2008/01/02/twitter-business-model/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, ...be96c39d1ccc5b3abe7920e6005cfc0a http://www.techquilashots.com/2007/12/13/music-recommendation-the-silent-years/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 ...e3ac7ae6b875338d73a8da1ab3da1fe1 http://www.techquilashots.com/2007/12/07/juno-the-little-miss-sunshine-of-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 going down of juno see if you can get some free passes to a theater near you. ...b0b5c9dee240d780c76cc296d9fe095c http://www.techquilashots.com/2007/12/22/google-ornaments-a-holiday-easter-egg/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.c5f284fd2280d2caf415a150f16c4ea5 http://www.techquilashots.com/2007/12/20/focusing-up-cnet-a-stock-to-watch/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, ...a39ff69b195f3742595017e998a074de http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/entrepreneur-university/what-can-you-offer-that-is-different/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 ...a7056bf1de636c83fb5ccf67d953f80c http://www.youngentrepreneur.com/blog/entrepreneur-polls/whats-been-the-best-social-media-marketing-channel-for-a-business-and-why-entrepreneur-polls/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 ...e285236fecb78ddbd8e7b8c47f5b88f2 http://www.webx0.com/2009/01/best-reality-tv-show-format.htmlx-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 ...e885c3799693f966d106ead555e80e58 http://www.webx0.com/2009/04/journalism.htmllogo_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" ...4f1b0d91f79ff8b13e7cf6215c5a347c http://www.webx0.com/2008/12/pricing-display-demand-creation-ads.htmlfollowing 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 ...96fd69befa980b9a1c30a31a154af371 http://www.seo-theory.com/2008/10/29/seo-for-subdomains-subdomains-and-seo/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. ...0c49880e775e6c30cce712812baf1a3e