Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Tribesmart is a UK social shopping site that is all about “drawing on your collective experiences to provide a content packed website which helps others find the most innovative, quirky, durable, useful, green, stylish and fun products according to you – the tribes.” Essentially tribesmart is a community-driven site based on product reviews. Users add [...]
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Posted on December 8th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
For the last few weeks, I’ve been playing around with a super-secret ultra stealth, invite-only beta called sponty. The quick pitch: Sponty’s mission is to make you and your friends hangoutable. It’s a Tuesday evening. You want to go to the movies. Of course, you’d rather go to the movies with your friends. You can [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2008 by Nathan Burke
So, since I’ve gone off on my own (doing some consulting and freelance work) after matchmine, I decided I needed a blog to show what I can do for clients. I really want to focus on helping startups with marketing, promotion, PR, social media strategy, etc., so I started a blog at MarketingStartups.com. Aside from [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2008 by Nathan
Hey everyone, be sure to check out the inaugural posting of my new column on Media Bullseye. I decided to take a lighthearted approach and do what I do best: making fun of stuff! This week I take on “insertwhateverhereCamps,” useless iPhone applications that should donate all their proceeds to the Salvation Army so my [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by David Parker
Note: This is the first guest post ever on blogstring.com. David Parker, CEO of Digital Advisor sent me this post today and asked only that I link to his site, BeatThat.com. I’ve covered BeatThat.com before in the past, and when reading the following post, I thought it was really interesting and relevant to the season. [...]
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Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
So, here’s the situation. I was plowing through emails this morning and had an email from FastPitch Networking. Here’s what it said: All right. No big deal, right? You get stuff like this all the time, no? But then……. My phone rings. I answer it. “Hi this is Bob Poole from FastPitch Networking…..” Wait, does [...]
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Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Nathan Burke
A few moments ago I got the following email: Hi, We appreciate your interest in Google Friend Connect and would now like to invite you to try the service. You can get started by visiting our homepage and clicking the “Set up a new site” button. Please sign in with your @gmail.com account to http://www.google.com/friendconnect [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Nathan Burke
Just saw the news that pownce, a microblogging competitor to twitter, has been acquired by Six Apart, and the service will shut down in two weeks. From the pownce blog: We have some very big news today at Pownce. We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have [...]
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