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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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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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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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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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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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It’s a terrible day here in Boston, and I’ve run out of shows on my DVR. So, I thought I’d actually get back to the keyboard and do something productive. As you probably already know, the mashable Open Web Awards nominees have been named, and voting goes until Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008. Here are the nominees [...]
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Over the last few days, I’ve had a lot of time to think. Between talking with recruiters, networking, and doing freelance work, I’ve still found a big chunk of time where I’ve been alone with my thoughts. And when that happens, I tend to get ideas for blog posts. This one came to me while [...]
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Well, you know how they tell you to write about what you’re familiar with? Here goes. So, a couple of days ago, matchmine shut down. All 50ish of us have been working the phones, sending emails, and talking to friends trying to land our next gigs. Here are some of the tactics I’ve been using [...]
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