Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Restaurant Owner Increases Sales by 110% with Foursquare Swarm Badge Party by Pamela Seiple, HubSpot Blog http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5697/Restaurant-Owner-Increases-Sales-by-110-with-Foursquare-Swarm-Badge-Party.aspx Austin Or Bust: 25 Entrepreneurs, Five Ideas And One Bus by Tomio Geron, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/03/09/austin-or-tech-bust-25-entrepreneurs-five-ideas-and-one-bus/ Why do we ignore ‘real-time’ results from Google search? by Charles Arthur, The [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Google wins patent for location-based advertising by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/03/01/google-location-ads/ Investors Bet on Price of Facebook IPO by Jessica E. Vascellaro, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/04/investors-bet-on-price-of-facebook-ipo/ Nokia Ovi Store now up to 1.5m downloads a day Music Ally http://musically.com/blog/2010/03/03/nokia-ovi-store-now-up-to-1-5m-downloads-a-day/ Cashmore: Why I’m banking on Facebook by Pete [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Bloom Energy unveils ‘power plant in a box’ by David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/25/MNIO1C6M96.DTL Facebook Granted News Feed Patent by Liz Gannes, GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2010/02/25/facebook-granted-news-feed-patent/ Google Analytics for Facebook Fan Pages Webdigi Blog http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2010/google-analytics-for-facebook-fan-pages/ Rumors fly about Twitter ad platform by Caroline McCarthy, cnet [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Surreal World of Chatroulette by Nick Bilton, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html Facebook, PayPal partner on advertising, virtual goods payments by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/18/facebook-paypal/ Dear SNL: Facebook Will Force You to Heart Betty White by Kara Swisher, All Things Digital/WSJ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100218/dear-snl-facebook-will-force-you-to-heart-betty-white/ What Kevin Smith means [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Chatroulette’s Creator, 17, Introduces Himself by Brad Stone, NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-founder-17-introduces-himself/ Five Reasons to Love Google Buzz, Five Reasons Not by David Coursey, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/reasons-love-loathe-google-buzz/story?id=9819647 Google Working On Translating Phone Conversations In Real-Time by Tricia Duryee, mocoNews http://moconews.net/article/419-google-working-on-translating-phone-conversations-in-real-time-/ Foursquare Inks Deals With Major Media [...]
Five articles I thought were interesting/important from the last week: Nearly Half Of Netflix Subscribers Now Watch Streams Online by Robin Wauters, TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/netflix-q4-2009-earnings/ iBooks: Apple Answers the Kindle with a Digital Bookshelf Like No Other by Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/apple-ibooks/ Ustream debuts pay-per-view webcasting Paul Boutin, VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/26/ustream-debuts-pay-per-view-webcasting/ After Three Months, Only 35 [...]
I’m going to be trying out a new feature for the blog. Each week I will be posting five articles that I found interesting over the course of the week. These are not intended to be the five most important articles, just five that I found interesting and thought others would like as well. The [...]
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