Archive for August 30th, 2008
Five Questions with…BackType Co-Founder Chris Golda
Once in awhile, you come across a startup that jumps out because it’s such an interesting concept. BackType falls into this category. Dubbed the “Twitter of Comments”, BackType lets you follow people who leave comments on blogs, as well as search for comments about people, trends, companies, etc. The reason it’s so intriguing is I’m trying to figure out which feature will resonate more with users. To me, search should be the “killer app” because itR...
i looooove being a girl!
amuta2.0 - Social Media for Not-for-Profits: August 31st in Jerusalem
Tomorrow morning I will be in Jerusalem at amuta2.0 - Social Media for Not-for-Profits. Everyone attending amuta2.0 will have a chance to experience real-time social tagging at the breakfast I am hosting during amuta2.0 My talk at amuta2.0 will look towards the future of social media in a session. My topic is: New Trends in Social Media in the post-facebook era. Over the past few months I have met with a number of not-for-profit organizations in the metro NYC area and have looked at w...
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Double Whammy for Gulf Coast
It looks like the Gulf Coast is getting set up for a double whammy even closer together than Katrina and Rita were three years ago. Gustav is predicted to come ashore on Tuesday, and Hanna is predicted to follow on Friday. The pix below are from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. Here’s Gustav hitting near New Orleans on Tuesday, with Hanna strengthening in the southern Bahamas: Here’s Hanna coming ashore on Friday. The remnants of Gustav are now minor precip in ...
good old skype
creepy chick
skype is dead
Uh, in a good way! ...
free recorder for skype video?
Skype hates me. :(
Reminder: August 31st is BlogDay
BlogDay was started by Nir Ofir in 2005 with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries, cultures and areas of interest. I celebrated BlogDay in 2007 and I look forward in joining the celebration again in 2008. What will happen on BlogDay? On August 31st, bloggers are asked to post recommendations of 5 new Blogs, preferably Blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog readers wi...
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F|R Crib Sheet: 5 Guerilla Tactics for Good Marketing
With the tech conference season upon us, Found|READ thought some tips for how to master conference marketing on the cheap would be useful. Today’s tips are courtesy of serial entrepreneur Pete Grillo, currently founder of iterasi, a one-and a-half-year-old startup in Portland, Ore., that has built a hosted storage service to capture and archive web pages. It’s a seemingly simple tool, but it allows you to save web pages in perpetuity — personal archives for individuals and bus...
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10 Things to Know and Hate About Metered Broadband
Since we’re getting in a huff over Comcast’s 250 GB cap, we thought it would be helpful to lay out why capping broadband is a bad idea today and a worse one for tomorrow, how it can benefit ISPs, and why it’s not really necessary on most networks. Check out our handy overview and links to our past coverage on the topic. Time Warner got the ball rolling back in January, and in June it announced a trial limiting folks to tiers from 5 GB per month to 40 GB per month. Billing beg...
5 Devices That Spell Trouble For Your Comcast Bandwidth Cap
Comcast’s new 250 GB bandwidth cap is that, as Om points out, is metered without a meter — Comcast doesn’t provide you with a central tally of all your data use. The company instead suggests its customers install bandwidth metering software on their machines and then add up the numbers. Got multiple home machines consuming data every day? Better bust out that spreadsheet — and get ready for some wild guesstimates. After all, you can’t just install a bandwidth metering application...
F|R: What Startups Can Learn From Michael Dell
It’s not a new idea to make hay by seizing the messy business opportunities no one else wants. Innovating the distribution of a technology, rather than inventing the technology itself, isn’t novel either. This is the model that made founder Michael Dell a billionaire. Now, San Francisco-based Sungevity is taking a page from Michael Dell’s playbook in an effort to do to solar panels what Dell did to personal computers. Solar installs are typically custom jobs — labor intensive an...
Roasting AT&T over iPhone Problems
“A phone is only as good as the network it’s on,” said a full-page Verizon Wireless newspaper ad on Thursday, lobbing a shot at AT&T’s 3G, or third generation, high-speed network. (And ain’t that the truth — we know if well where I live!) Apple sold more than a million iPhone 3G cellphones its first weekend — with some stores running out — and two million more since then, analysts say. But its July debut has been nothing less than a public...
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