Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Akoha is a game that encourages players to “play it forward”, as good deeds will earn them points in a multiplayer game. The company presented at TechCrunch50, and their presentation appears below.
During the akoha presentation, the company opened their pre-registration to a very limited number of beta testers. I was lucky enough to [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
We’re back, doing our live podcast on BlogTalkRadio. This week’s show will be at 2:00 PM EST. You can listen live below.
Call In #: (718) 506-1372
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Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Just a quick note to say that the Social Media For Social Change event here in Boston has released their second block of tickets. The first set of tickets sold out quickly, and it looks like there are only 14 left.
The event is to benefit Jane Doe, Inc. From the SM4SC web site:
Jane Doe [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Today google launched Google Moderator. The service allows people to suggest questions during tech talks, and the community can up or down vote the proposed questions to determine which are asked of the guest. Here’s a screenshot from Matt Cutts’ blog:
Google Moderator was an internal tool that they’ve now released to the masses. From [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Wow, it’s been a while. For whatever reason, September is always the craziest month in tech, and I can’t believe we haven’t done a single show all month! Well, time to put an end to that. I’ll be talking with J. Trent Adams, founder of matchmine.
Time: 3:30 EST
Call In #: (347) 539-5920
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Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Unfortunately I missed this talk at the Web 2.0 Expo, but thanks to the intarwebs, it’s available:
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
This week I went to the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC to man the matchmine booth. I also had a chance to wander around picking up freebies and listen to exhibitors talk about their products. Here’s a quick rundown of the companies that caught my attention, either because their product was interesting, or their freebies [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Image by Zemanta via CrunchBase
At the Web 2.0 Expo in NY this week, I had a chance to meet up with Jure Cuhalev of Zemanta to get a look at the new release of Zemanta. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Zemanta, it’s a recommendation service for bloggers that is really, really good. [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
I’m here at the Web 2.0 Expo in the city so nice they named it twice, NY NY. I will be manning the matchmine booth for most of the day today and tomorrow, so if you’re around, stop by and say hi.
I haven’t had a chance to stop by and see any of the exhibitors [...]
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
I’ve been a real slacker lately over at the matchmine blog, so today I posted an entry entitled “What Is Media Discovery?” Here’s a short snippet of it. Check out the rest on the matchmine blog.
After watching the presentations at TechCrunch50 and DEMOfall 2008, I was surprised at how often I heard the term “discovery” [...]
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