(The) Startup Depression (50)
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Jason Calacanis’ latest post to his email mailing list takes a look at the dark times many involved in the startup world have to struggle through at one point or another. Startup news is often dominated by success stories - multimillion dollar acquisitions and overnight successes are more glamorous than the countless entrepreneurs trudging in the trenches as they try to build userbases and raise funding. Calacanis’s post offers some valuable insight into the realities ...
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rexy said:
Wow, this is such a rich knowledge base for any entrepreneur in any part of the world. i would urge you to read it if you run your own company.
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Raphael said:
Toller Artikel über die Führung von Startups. Das umzusetzen erfordert aber viel mentale Kapazität.
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Lockhart said:
Good article re: keeping your business focused when things go to hell.
Recession Proof Your Job with Web Based Tools (25)
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The economy is the story of the year. And although Congress is poised to pass a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry, we're not out of the woods. Many feel that a deep global recession is imminent. This means there will be layoffs - perhaps lots of them. To protect your job, you need to ensure that you are personally accountable and adding value every day. Social software and web applications, if applied correctly, ...
Study Results: Online Communities and Business (3)
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Francois Gossieaux from Beeline Labs, along with Deloitte and the Society for New Communications Research, has done some great research on how organizations are using online communities in both the business-to-business (b2b) and business-to-consumer (b2c) contexts (some nonprofits were included in the mix as well). Over 140 organizations were included in the study, which covered online business communities with only a few dozen members, all the way up to communities with over 10,000 members. Here's ...
That Was Fun, But Now Ebay’s Selling Off StumbleUpon (12)
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In May 2007 eBay acquired website recommendation engine StumbleUpon for $75 million. Now, less than a year and a half later, they’re trying to unload it according to a source with knowledge of the sale process. eBay has hired Deutsche Bank to find the right buyer, says our source, but the asking price is unknown. It’s not certain that eBay will be able to sell it for the price they paid - In July StumbleUpon ...
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Spyros said:
So, StumbleUpon will take it's own course?
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kmohr25 said:
I see Yahoo buying this .....
New Joost Launches Now. And Next Month Joost Will Be 100% Flash. (9)
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The new browser-based Joost, which we wrote about two weeks ago (screen shots here), launches this morning. The new Joost still requires a plug-in to facilitate P2P transfers of files (reducing Joost’s bandwidth costs and making high-demand live performances feasible). There are lots of new community features in the new Joost, which we outlined in our previous post. Joost isn’t just moving to a browser format. They’re also creating a video based social network complete ...
Google Launches Audio Indexing (54)
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As the Web becomes more sophisticated and audio and video becomes a more important part of our online lives, we need something that will help us sift through the junk and find what we’re looking for in all that content. To address that, Google announced Wednesday that it has launched audio indexing in Google Labs. Dubbed GAudi, the new service is designed to work with YouTube, and will catalog all the words uttered during an ...
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Jake said:
1-800-GOOG-411 as speech-to-text training is paying off.
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Pablo Pizarro said:
q buen laburo que están haciendo los Googlers!!
Updates Announced For Google Gears And Google Desktop (11)
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Google announced Monday that it has launched Google Gears for Apple’s Safari browser on Mac OS X. All Safari users running Mac OS X (Windows isn’t supported yet) can now access Gears-enabled sites like Zoho Office and the YouTube Uploader. Google also announced Monday that it has released Google Desktop 5.8 for Windows, which the company claims, will increase performance and make it a more agile service. According to Google, it performed a number of ...
Carl Zeiss Lenses Available For Canon… Hell Yeah!!! (2)
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Via PhotographyBay, Carl Zeiss has just announced that they have begun manufacturing fully functional Canon EF mount lenses called the ZE series. First available, a 50mm f/1.4 and 85mm f/1.4, will be released on September 29th. I’ve long felt Canon would benefit from a premium quality alternative that differentiates itself from the lower-priced brands such as Sigma and Tamron. Learn more about the lenses and read a firsthand account of the quality in action over ...
Why I Stopped Reading Blogs (for a while) (31)
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1000+ items. That's what Google Reader told me I need to read to catch up with my RSS subscriptions. It's intimidating. My RSS feeds were mocking me. I could see them with sneaky voices "hee hee, you'll never read me, you don't have the time. ha ha." The sad part is, they were right. I stopped opening my RSS reader months ago. It wasn't a concerted effort, I just didn't do it. What I found ...
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ghuth said:
1000+ items - me too. Might be something to learn from this. One of my problems is subscribing to duplicates. When mashable and techcruch tweet their blog posts, and the RSS reader feeds them... its harder to pay attention to both.
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Howard said:
This is a periodic ''must do'' exercise to 'direct the flow' of your info in the way that matters most to you. Bravo.
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Jeremy Wagstaff said:
Great piece on how to handle RSS
LinkedIn To Launch Its Own Ad Network (45)
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At a time when most social networks are still trying to figure out how to make money from advertising, one social network is bucking the trend. LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals, has so much demand from advertisers that it will be launching its own ad network on Monday. In conjunction with ad network Collective Media (which targets high-end media sites), LinkedIn will let other select sites target its users when they visit those ...
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sulleh said:
interesting stuff.
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Vicky said:
Most social networks have a hard time selling ads at more than $1 CPMs (cost per thousand impressions), but LinkedIn’s rate card shows display ads starting at $30 CPMs and going up to $76.50. Text ads range from $12 to $20 CPMs. Even with the regular discounting from the rate card that many advertisers might recieve, LinkedIn is still doing much better than most social networks. That is because it has a more desirable audience that advertisers want to reach.
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Angelos said:
The demographics presented in this article help explain why I sometimes struggle to extract value from LinkedIn.
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Satyajeet said:
"Is this the future of all destination sites—tio become ad networks and sell their audiences everywhere to the highest bidder?"Interesting...if you build an audience that's valuable to advertisers, are you compelled to try and put a significant amount of effort to try to monetize it?
23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself (64)
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Like what you see here? Subscribe to the feed to stay updated on what's new in data visualization. In the not too distant past, the Web was all about sharing, broadcasting, and distribution. The tide is turning. The Web is moving towards the individual. Applications spring up every month that let people track, monitor, and analyze their habits and behaviors in hopes of gaining a better understanding about themselves and their surroundings. We saw what ...
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Christian said:
Des outils pour les Narcisses du Web
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kkr said:
lots of ways to document everything. amandalee will love this.
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dromologue said:
I love this...I always expected finer grained web presence, but what this really brings home to me is that the act of sharing is itself a need that people are trying to meet...
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Ralf said:
Collect data about yourself for yourself
The future of search (76)
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The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the 10 years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next 10 years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We ...
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Gonzalo Lopez said:
Búsquedas ubicuas. Ni más ni menos.
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Syed said:
Great post!
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Pat said:
I thought Marissa Mayer said the problem was 90% solved?
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matthew hunt said:
Wow a must read!
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Sergey Kapustin said:
Further, why should a search be words at all? Why can’t I enter my query as a picture of the birds overhead and have the search engine identify what kind of bird it is? Why can’t I capture a snippet of audio and have the search engine identify and analyze it (a song or a stream of conversation) and tell me any relevant information about it?
Stephen Hawking Bets Against Large Hadron Collider's Success [Lhc] (11)
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We know the LHC won't end the world, but in an amusing note before its big switch-on tomorrow Stephen Hawking (he of the physics brain the size of a planet) has admitted he's got a $100 bet that the machine won't succeed in one of its big goals: finding the very mysterious Higgs boson. In a BBC radio interview he joked "I think it will be much more exciting if we don't
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Spurred by James Nachtwey's powerful photographs and RESULTS.org, the two major US presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, released statements yesterday detailing their plans for fighting TB. From John McCain's statement: As President, I will ensure that treatment and prevention programs are funded at levels befitting a wealthy and great nation. I will have a sustained commitment to helping people in need in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere cope with the ravages of this devastating ...Contribute commentHacker News (1796) permalink
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