Posted on November 11th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Okay, so I’m not used to doing the video thing, but now that I’m rocking the MacBook Pro, I really have no excuse. I can just ramble and it’s too easy to record and be done with it. So I’m giving this a shot though it very well may be my first and last video. [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Last night I got an email from a old co-worker inviting me to check out SocialMinder, which said: SocialMinder is an online assistant that helps you maintain relationships with your LinkedIn network. I thought that you might appreciate a free invitation to the “closed” alpha test of SocialMinder. SociaMinder: * Scans your email headers and [...]
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Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Today, Amazon announced the finalists for their $100,000 Startup Challenge. The contest was to find “the next hot start-up that is leveraging AWS to build its infrastructure and business.” The winner will be given $100K in cash and AWS credit, and a potential investment from Amazon.com Here are the finalists: Encoding.com On demand video encoding. Users upload [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Since the beginning of his campaign, Barack Obama has understood one simple, yet essential principle that seemed to elude all other candidates. He was a master at crafting the exact right message for exactly the right audience, and he was always able to do so without ever being manipulative. Right before his acceptance speech, he [...]
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Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
If you’re in the Boston-area tomorrow morning and do not have an election hangover (a condition resulting from watching far too much CNN and paying attention to all election-related twitter posts), head on over to the Andala Coffee House in Central Square. Here’s the info from Biz Stone of twitter: TweetUp with Bijan in Boston [...]
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
I’ve been watching all the news channels. I’ve been following all the tweets. And while no one wants to be the first to project a winner in this race, I’m fully prepared to make a bold projection: Barack Obama is the next president of the United States of America. I’ve run all the numbers and [...]
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