Well, well. It’s 7pm on a Saturday and I’m just starting my day. Why? Because last night was the TechCrunch meetup in Boston, and I believe I went to sleep at around 4:30 am. I guess I can’t bounce back like I used to be able to. Anyway, the event was incredibly good. Though it [...]
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Chris Brogan has a great post on Personal Branding available here. I was struggling to come up with a blog post about a conversation about the exact same subject and a little experiment I want to try, but the words weren’t coming out. Then I saw Chris’ post and thought, well, why bother. He put [...]
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Last night I went to Jeff Pulver’s “Real Time Social Networking Event” here in Boston. Jeff is putting on these events around the world with the goal of fostering interaction between his many friends and encouraging networking in a small, fun setting. The price of admission? You just needed to fill out a name badge [...]
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The Internet has already revolutionized fundraising in everything from political campaigns to disaster relief. The convenience of charitable contributions available at the push of a button has motivated many not only to give to great causes but to take an active role in the fundraising. The power of social media has inspired some of the [...]
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(via mashable) Thank you, Kristen Nicole for providing me with something to write about on a Sunday afternoon with no Patriots game. There’s a new social network called “I Do…Now I Don’t.” After reading Kristen Nicole’s article, I was under the impression that the site was a social network for those who have been through [...]
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(via xconomy) “Northeastern University (my alma mater) and a Waltham, MA, startup called Jarg say the key technology Google uses to conjure up search results was patented by them.” From the article: According to the Globe account, Northeastern and Jarg, which was co-founded by an NU associate professor, say their technology—a means for parceling up [...]
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I may have done a 180 in less than 24 hours. Yesterday I had a conversation in which I declared having a company page in facebook “lame.” I thought back to Larry Weber’s talk at the last Social Media Breakfast in which he told the story of his daughter who told him “Dad, Coke just [...]
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Lemonade’s offer is simple: They allow bloggers the ability to enroll in multiple affiliate marketing programs at once, and lets them create a custom widget to offer items for sale from with their blog. The store gets a sale, the blogger gets an affiliate percentage, and lemonade takes a cut. Let’s take a look: My [...]
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Last night I went to the Web Innovators Group at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge. Hundreds of entrepreneurs, journalists, and tech people were in attendance for this, the fifteenth gathering. The meeting is split into two sections: "Side Dish Presentations" and "Main Dish Presentations." Each side dish presenter gets 60 seconds, while main dish [...]
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It’s official: There’s a beta out there that I won’t touch. I know that blogstring’s tagline is “Got Any Beta Invites?”, but for the first time, I don’t want one. I never thought I’d see this day……. TechCrunch reports on CrazyBlindDate, which is launching today in NYC, San Fran, and Boston. Here’s the idea: you [...]
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