I’m a dog lover. My wife and I treat our Corgi, Steve, like a child. And every time we have to travel, we feel awful leaving him at even the best kennel. See, Steve was a rescue dog. When we got him, the people at the rescue organization said there had been a rash of [...]
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This one is pretty interesting. The hardest part of any social network is that you have to already know people (or search for new friends) to be able to get something out of it. And sites like stickam and ustream are good if you want to have your own show, but what if you don’t [...]
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Last night I got an email from Adam Martin of Qajack, a newly launched “video game” based on Questions and answers. Think of it as Yahoo Answers meets 12seconds. Something like that. Here’s what they say it is: Qajack uses video to play with what you know and what you want to know. It’s deliberately [...]
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Let’s play a little make believe. Let’s say you just started a job at a startup company that is in stealth mode. Your job is to promote the company and get it noticed online, and today is the day to get started. But where do you start? I’ve been in that situation before, and had [...]
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I saw the news today that ImindI, after giving away 1000 invites to their beta on TechCrunch, accidentally deleted all user accounts. Whoops. ImindI’s CEO Adam Lindemann sent out an apology email: Dear Friends of Imindi, Yesterday, we were featured on Techcrunch and many of you were kind enough to sign up to the service. [...]
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I finally got around to catching up with my RSS reader today and saw a post from Don Dodge on the What’s Next In Tech? event. The event is being moderated by Scott Kirsner of the Boston Globe and is hosted by Future Forward Events LLC in association with The Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and [...]
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I’ve been a slacker here at blogstring lately (though I have two new posts in the queue for this weekend), so I thought I’d post something here from one of my other blogs. Since taking the new gig, I’ve been paying a lot of attention to the software as a service (SaaS) space. Not exactly [...]
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Since my last full time gig, I’ve been doing the consulting thing, and whenever I can, I work on a project basis rather than hourly. Why? I absoluely loathe keeping track of time more than anything. It’s a complete waste, and makes every task take longer to complete because you have to spend time recording [...]
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You’ve seen the "25 Things" meme on facebook. If you’re a blogger, you’ve probably been "tagged" before. The rise of the "share your experience" trend is heating up, and now diddit has launched to take advantage of it. What Is diddit? Well, I’m glad you asked. Diddit is a social site where you can check [...]
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Springpad, the service that offers online notebooks to manage tasks, (covered here in November) has just launched a Date planner springpad to help you plan Valentine’s Day. While that alone isn’t all that newsworthy, what was really interesting to me is how far the springpad application has come in terms of integrating with other sites. [...]
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