Avoiding Awkward Conversations: Slydial

Not since I saw an article about a service that prevents you from dialing certain numbers after you’ve been drinking have I seen something that could so revolutionize the often painfully awkward world of modern dating.
I’m an avid screener. Whether it’s my mother and sister (who seem to call on a daily basis, particularly [...]

SezWho Announces 3 New Partners- Is That Good? Bad? Depends Who You Ask. Here’s What I Think.

So, SezWho, the company that hopes to be the universal profile service for the social web announced three new partners causing speculation and controversy.
SezWho announced partnerships with Izea, Entrecard, and Creative Weblogging. The three-partner release was a conscious decision in order to show both momentum in partnerships as well as a demonstration of the [...]

Die, Business Card, Die, Die?

Now here’s something I never thought of. (Isn’t that always with the way with something new?)
The lovely Amanda has a new client, 211(me), and kindly asked if I’d check them out . (She put a great pitch together, by the way, by appealing to both Nathan and myself on a personal level and connecting her [...]

Blogged.com Live on matchmine Media Discovery Platform

Full Disclosure: I work at matchmine. Just saying.
Today matchmine announced that blogged.com has gone live on the matchmine Media Discovery Platform. It’s weird to say it as “matchmine announced”, since, well, I’m part of matchmine. Almost like when people do their “about” page in the third person, but I digress.
Here’s what that means: Blogged.com [...]

Boston Area Startups- We Want To Hear From You

Though we’ve been covering startups regardless of location, we would love to hear from startups in the Boston area. There are several events coming up, and there will be good opportunities for Boston and New England based entrepreneurs to meet and exchange ideas with the community. We are currently working on our second blogstring tweetup [...]

Boston Startup, Web and Tech Events

Yesterday I finally took the time to update the events sidebar here on blogstring to include upcoming events. I asked my twitter friends for events, trolled the usual suspects (going.com, upcoming, etc) and even did some Google searching. This morning, Don Dodge’s post Boston startup events and resources was in my RSS reader. Here’s the [...]

matchmine Goes Live With Two Partners- What Does That Mean?

On Monday at 9:00 am, matchmine announced the following:
NEEDHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–matchmine™ today announced that the first two partners in the MatchKey Partner Network have gone live with the matchmine Media Discovery Platform™. Fuzz.com, a music company providing a bold new solution to connect artists and fans, and FilmCrave.com, a social utility revolving around movie reviews, [...]

Profile of WhyGoSolo on StartRocket.com

My profile of WhyGoSolo is up on StartRocket. After blindly registering for the service I thought I should actually do the research and find out what it was all about.

Want Bloggers To Cover Your Startup? 5 Simple Tips To Make It Easy

I love startups. I write about them. I work at one. As a blogger as well as a guy on the inside, I’ve come to understand how important it can be to get coverage in blogs. In covering startups, I’ve come up with a short list of tips that can make it much easier for [...]

Awards Season on the Web

It’s the end of the year, and everyone is compiling their lists of Most Memorable Product Launches of 2007, Top Search Terms of 2007, and Fastest Growing Search Terms of 2007.
Add to that two end-of-year awards for tech companies: The OpenWeb Awards and the Crunchies:
The OpenWeb Awards:

From the site:
The Open Web Awards, hosted [...]