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Corporate Disobedience Operation Chokehold
Image via CrunchBase Well this is interesting from a civil/corporate disobedience viewpoint, and an interesting way of looking at flash mobbing a place/product/service to see what the upward limits are. Fake Steve Jobs has proposed that IPhone...
The JooJoo Crunchpad debacle demonstrates the value of checking your partners
Image via CrunchBase Business is built on trusting the other person to do what they say they are going to do. This is a relationship that extends across the entire business spectrum, and controversy aside, the issues with the Crunchpad/JooJoo ...
Crowd source your Next Job looking for your stories
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr Looking for input from readers on how they conduct a job search using social media tools. While I have road tested just about every job tool out there from Monster in 1999 through Dice, Career Builder, Linkedin...
Fun social recommendation web site Likaholix
Image by Likaholix via CrunchBase I have been playing with Likaholix for the last week, and have ended up really enjoying the web site and the potential that it creates for people to share the things they do like. This is so much better than Y...
Sponsored Post Fun with the Eye-Fi Card
Image via CrunchBase I have wanted one of these for a while and thought I would have to wait until the holidays to get one, but fortunately social spark had an opportunity to take a look at the Eye-Fi card and I found it to be as much fun as I...
With a sense of humor looking at the economy of free
Many people know I wrote a book, “Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere” that is case study based on what has made and what has not made a successful blog from the 10,000 foot level. Like many authors, I tinkered around with many different ways of ge...
Causes leaves MySpace this is interesting
Image via Wikipedia Causes is a social networking donation platform that uses MySpace so that people can raise money for causes or issues that they believe in. Generally these kinds of activities help provide a community around issues like Bre...
Spammers start trying out jokes to sell stuff
Image by david⢰ via Flickr Most of us at least look at our spam queues on our systems on a semi-regular basis, what is always interesting is to see the variances in tactics that spammers are using to try to get their stuff into your system. ...
Twitter Facebook Fantasy Football and other productivity losses
Image via CrunchBase Just a quick note this morning on the idea of random numbers and productivity losses around the use of social networking, but other sacred cows like Fantasy Football we shrug at. Companies do not generally tend to block ac...
Industry Expert Panel Discussion on Data Privacy
Image by pchow98 via Flickr We all have a vested interest in how data and data privacy is enacted by companies, regardless of the environment, cloud, mobile (laptop, cell phones), private Data Center, or anything else that is a combination of ...
Intervals for SaaS Project Management
Image by Geodog via Flickr For people who are familiar with Microsoft Project and other online project management tools, taking a look at Intervals might also be something that will help you work your projects smarter. I recently took a look at in...
The Lego Internet
Image via CrunchBase Jessie Stay over at Staynalive brings up the idea of the Lego internet, where large companies are busy making widgets, API’s and other building blocks that designers and developers can leverage in their own applications....
Celebrate Boss Day with an Iphone App
While the jokes abound that “there is an app for that”, and people are probably not too far off with the thousands of applications the Iphone Application store, the “bosses day” application might just be the over the top kind of appli...
Unignited Startups get advice from Andy Sack
Cover of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Andy Sack is one of the cooler VC’s in the Seattle area, mostly because he blogs, and blogs frequently enough that you do not forget about him and what he is doing and who he is working with. ...
Facebook fan Pages the inside interface
Image via CrunchBase Not many people administrate Fan Pages, but there is a wealth of information that can be gained about people who are making themselves fans. This information is particularly helpful when trying to work out if you are hitting t...
Using Social Networking for your startup
Image via CrunchBase Over the last month we have been working on building in social networking for our startup, and it is just now beginning to draw some attention. This is a good thing as social networking is a series of processes and systems tha...
I love you Google Wave
Image via CrunchBase My love hate relationship with Google just switched over to love today as I just got my Google Wave account invite today, and am going to spend the rest of the day playing around with this puppy to see if it will work for the ...
Time for another Seattle series of events for Startups
Image via Wikipedia No matter how many times I think I can go to a startup event here in Seattle, unfortunately it is very hard for me to actually make it somewhere unless it is on a Friday night, or convenient to me, and Wednesday morning just do...
Unmasker who has the most sycophantic profile on twitter
Image via CrunchBase For anyone who is familiar with Tweeting Too Hard, Unmasker will help you work out who is honest, and who is just simply stacking their Twitter with simple BS keywords that have no relationship to who they are or what they...
Using the cloud to design your startup computing infrastructure
Image via Wikipedia Now that the wireframe is done for the startup, we are looking at the backend architecture for what we want to accomplish. The idea of using the cloud to cut down on costs is nothing new, and my new startup will be heavily ...
Is Google the next Media Company
Image via CrunchBase Think about this for a moment, Google mail, YouTube, Google book search, soon to come Google Wave, and a plethora of other stuff, the only thing that Google is missing is a distribution contract with RIAA and the MPAA. Wit...
Ready for a Private Label Amazon
Image via CrunchBase The New York Times and Techflash are leading news this morning about Amazon and how it looks like it will become the Wal-Mart of the internet. The question is, is anyone ready to follow or take on Amazon on its own turf. ...
Special Immigration policy for Startup Founders
Image by Google via CrunchBase Eric Ries over at Startup Lessons Learned has an interesting proposal on his blog about having a special immigration policy for alien immigrants to stay if they start a new company. Eric was recently at Governme...
Should you wait for the Archos 9 or buy the Archos 5 now
Image via Wikipedia As the buzz and lust over gadgets continues unabated, the Archos Company is on a smart track to deliver smaller touch screen media players that can do a lot of other things along the way. With a small store, and a small group o...
Another new startup for Seattle starts today
Image by wilbertbaan via Flickr What is interesting about problems is that if you are lucky enough to have a good idea that will help solve the problem you can pretty much do a great startup. Over the last week my startup has been in trouble yet a...
Fear and Censorship drives military bloggers underground
Image via Wikipedia This should be of interesting to almost every blogger out there. We all know that there are some bloggers who maintain their anonymity like Mini-Microsoft; we also know that there are bloggers who have had their identity reveal...
Buying Popularity online via USocial
Image via CrunchBase Well you know this had to happen, since you can still purchase Digg’s, and a ton of other forms of popularity in social networking it is not surprising that an enterprising company would come up with a way to allow people to...
Boom and Bust in the Blogosphere is on sale at Amazon
Whoever said that writing a book would be easy was mistaken, but the good news is that after a 6 month journey of preprint and test readers, through editing and more editing, adding and subtracting content, the book “Boom and Bust in the Blogospher...
1984 or Panopticon
Image via Wikipedia Zoli Erdos over at Cloud Avenue brings up an interesting point about USA search and seizure of electronic systems at the border, there is always a way around any restriction put in place. What makes this always interesting is t...
Is it time for the Pirate Bay to just let go
Image by theimpressionist.co.uk via Flickr After losing the court case, after the multiple attacks against the site, after the buyer for the site waffling, and now with the loss of its primary ISP, is it time for the Pirate Bay to simply fade into...
