Posted on December 31st, 2008 by Nathan Burke
As a startup, it makes sense to do awards submissions. One of the biggest ones out there is “The Crunchies”, a competition put on by TechCrunch to award the best startups and internet/tech innovations of the year. This is the second annual competition, and final voting just started. This afternoon I got the following email [...]
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Posted on December 29th, 2008 by Sarah Wurrey
New on Media Bullseye this week, I’ve got an article about pretty much the same thing I’ve been on about since leaving CustomScoop in October–when my job doesn’t require it, how do I stay involved in social media?
I’ve got my own top five tips and ask that you contribute your own! If you’re busy at [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
RadWebTech has just launched ScrAPPlet, a browser based “blank canvas that makes it easy for anyone to customize a page, connect social profiles, or design a portable site with drag and drop ease.” While other social network aggregators and bridges have used the “enabling users to connect to multiple accounts” angle, scrapplet has gone for [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
So, I was super excited when my blog post “Top 10 Tips To Get Your Startup Noticed” over on marketingstarups.com started to pick up steam. I got a lot of great feedback and comments, and even had to change my bandwith limit three times.
In the post, one of my tips was to submit your site [...]
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Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Back in October, I wrote about Signal Patterns launching a facebook app to match personality traits to voting behavior. Today, they’ve announced the official launch of their two first web apps: Personality Patterns and Music Patterns. From their press release:
The applications are now available on SignalPatterns.com, a first-of-its-kind website where people use professional psychology tools, [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Today, telonu launched the public beta of their service, a community site where users can talk about their employer anonymously. The site mixes reviews and ratings of companies with networking features. From their press release:
Telonu Inc. today announced the beta launch of its free user generated content community website, www.telonu.com focused on the workplace. Users [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Veedow is a shopping discovery site that recommends products to users based on their expressed interests. The moment I heard the word "discovery", I was all over it. Frequent readers of this blog may remember that until October, I worked at matchmine, a media discovery company that recommended music, video, podcasts and blogs to users [...]
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Posted on December 11th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
My article, entitled “Content and Communications Companies Dominate WebInno 20“, is now available on Media Bulliseye.
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Posted on December 10th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
WebNotes, the web annotation service covered here in November, has launched their invite-only public beta. Since I last covered their closed beta, the service has made several upgrades and feature changes, though most have taken place under the hood:
UI changes have been made to the highligter functionality
Security enhancements have been made
Changes have been made to [...]
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Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Tonight is the 20th Web Innovators Group meeting here in the Boston area. The Web Innovators Group:
Is comprised of people engaged in internet and mobile innovation in the Boston area. We aim to support entrepreneurs, visionaries, and creative thinkers in the field by holding events which foster community interaction. Our regular meetings provide a forum [...]
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