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I Got Kicked Off Facebook
This past New Year’s I made Ten Predictions for 2008 on this blog, including a bonus, eleventh prediction… Well that eleventh prediction has come true: I have been kicked off Facebook for what is,...
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Update: I Got Kicked Off Facebook
Just an update for RSS readers becasue many have inquired what happened that resulted in my Facebook Account being deleted. Nick O’Neill has a post at AllFacebook explaining what happened. I have been...
View ArticleSlide Giving Up on Facebook? What’s It Really Mean?
From Alley Insider: Slide, the company that makes Facebook’s most popular apps, says it’s done making new ones for the social network. Keith Rabois, VP of strategy and business development, told us...
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Social Capital + Facebook Photos = Advertising Nirvana?
While on Facebook this afternoon I stumbled across a few funny photos where someone had apparently used Photoshop to add UGG boots to a number of their friends’ pictures. In other cases, they had taken...
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Burger King Reveals Facebook Valuation
I loved this outside-the-box thinking by Jason Kottke on Facebook’s Valuation so I’m reblogging: Burger King recently introduced a Facebook app called Whopper Sacrifice that allows users to delete ten...
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Top 10 Blog Posts Discussing Facebook
Below are the 10 most trafficked blog posts from this blog dealing with Facebook: Burger King Reveals Facebook’s Valuation, or ‘Facebook’s Valuation in Whoppers’ (2009) Why Accept a Friend Request?...
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No One Wants Your Crappy Web App
My friend Peter delivered a great talk at Ignite Baltimore titled No One Cares About Your Crappy Web App. Watch it. Then go read Tim O’Reilly’s Work on Stuff that Matters, watch Tim’s interview and...
View ArticleThe Lowest Common Denominator
In my thinking about how web technologies are evolving I think attempting to conceptualize or invent the next Facebook is nearly impossible. Massively disruptive startups “just are.” IMO it’s not...
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Is Offline the New Online?
Several years ago I worked on a project backed by a now prolific angel investor on the west coast. I found the idea extremely compelling, but the for a couple reasons the project failed to reach the...
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Pumpkinhead Launches as About.me
I never break news anymore. It’s near impossible these days to beat any of the mainstream tech blogs to the punch. However… It *appears* that the super stealth startup Pumpkinhead has now launched as...
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Drivers of Technology Valuation Multiples
Interesting graphic from a write up by Blackstone on what is driving high p/e ratios for public technology companies The post Drivers of Technology Valuation Multiples appeared first on Leveraging...
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Amazing TNT Belgium Launch
The post Amazing TNT Belgium Launch appeared first on Leveraging Ideas.
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Uncle Drew Pepsi AdverContent
I love these examples of content and advertising blending together. This is awesome. The post Uncle Drew Pepsi AdverContent appeared first on Leveraging Ideas.
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Google Search-As-You-Type Advertising Could Be Huge
I think this is a major opportunity for Google and I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more press/chatter. If done correctly it could be a real premium offering for Google and a great experience for...
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Ad:Tech NY Conference to Highlight Expanded Startup Contest
Some exciting news for media and advertising startups! – The ad:tech conference has expanded its Startup Spotlight Series and will be running a much larger contest at this year’s New York City...
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Lululemon Founders Launch Whil
Chip and Shannon Wilson, founders of Lululemon are launching a new “company” around meditation called Whil [Our approach is] pretty minimalist compared to how people usually think of meditating. You...
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Tough Workouts Revitalize Mindset of Top Football Coach
From a Wall Street Journal article this weekend on Sean Payton’s (New Orleans Saint’s head coach) love for the anonymity and intensity of CrossFit workouts: Payton became immersed in CrossFit last...
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What It Feels Like to be CEO of a Startup
What does it feel like to be CEO of a startup? Paul DeJoe answered this question on Quora. His response quickly became one of the most popular answers of all time. I wanted to resurface Paul’s answer,...
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Startups as a Career
I’ve been reading a lot of opinions that there are “too many” startups right now. To many investors. I tend to agree. That said, I was thinking the other night about a contrarian view point. Facts:...
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Are We Better Informed Than Ever Before?
I watched a recent Stocks and Scotch video featuring Howard Lindzon, Felix Salmon, Henry Blodget and two others discussing the future of media. One of Henry’s comments stuck out to me: “we are...
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