June 2009
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The Book That Facebook Doesn't Want You to Read →
New book is a tawdry account of how Facebook was founded (via CNNMoney.com)
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"Facebook: The Movie"
It is all coming out. The movie titled “The Social Network”, a Columbia Pictures hopeful, will bring the story of Facebook founder’s Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and My.BO favorite Chris Hughes to movie theaters across the country.
Well, why not? The “behind the scenes” at Facebook have been rumored to be very dramatic. From...
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WatchThe Shift Index - The ROA / Labor Productivity Paradigm
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10 Steps to Make My Next Move Easier
More than anything else, besides painting, I hate moving. No matter how well you plan and organize to move into a new apartment something just always seems to go wrong. In the past 6 years, this has been my 8th move (6 within College Park, MD; 2 within Arlington, VA) and unfortunately, this will not be my last.
To combat the moving blues, I have decided to create 10 easy steps to make my next...
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Arrests in Iran For Those Using the Internet
Iran government police are arresting those who are using Twitter and blogs to keep the world up to date on the violence in Tehran. You can support Iran by signing up for Twitter, going to search.twitter.com, and viewing the real time videos and photos sent by those in Iran. Get informed.
This is the world we live in, using the Internet to bring democracy to places like Iran. Do you believe the...
Building Successful Long Term Relationships →
davemorin:
Great post by Fred Wilson on building great relationships in life and work.
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The White House - Statement from the President on... →
mikearauz:
The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against…
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CEOs Hiring 27-Year Old Mentors →
Navigating the social web — or as @gary puts it “business” — and understanding the effects of social media on traditional business can be a very time consuming process for many CEOs to figure out on their own.
In the past, twenty-somethings were better known for their status as the lowest rung on the ladder. Now, Generation Y brings an entirely new savviness to business...
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Transparency →
This is what would happen if the Federal Government opened up and standardized their data to be made sense by hackers.
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“Links are the currency of the internet.”
– @fredwilson (avc.com)
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Stealth Startup! Wow... the DEALFLOW! →
I didn’t even have time to blink as this new post from VentureBeat ripped my face off! Check it out… V-Vehicles, backed by John Doerr (of Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers) and T. Boone Pickens, is going to hit the Efficient Vehicle Market where it hurts most- in the wallet.
Affordability has been the missing link, so if V-Vehicles can pull this off in the 18-month timeframe it is...
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Late Night with Jimmy Fallon- Tonight's Guest:... →
gary:
Hanging with Fallon tonight and throwing a get together in NYC tonight http://bit.ly/5kk3h Hope to see some of u peeps there!
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WatchSpecifically… what we need is something geeky that appeals to the mass audience.
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Learning The Twitter Language
Twitter answers one simple question: What are you doing? For some though (Dad: @stonehedge9), Learning the language can be intimidating.
1. Following vs. Follower - You can be following anybody on twitter, but they do not have to follow you back. This is opposite of Facebook, where once you accept a friend request both can see each others updates. 2. Tweeting vs. Tweet - When you publish a 140...
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“That a new information technology could be improvised for this purpose so...”
– Fred: Yes.
I hope he’s right about this
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
(via fred-wilson)
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WatchEco Rock - 52% of CO2 is from building materials; 9% of CO2 is from cars. Green Product of The Year from Popular Science.
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WatchWorld record for fastest re-shelving of 19 liquor boxes of books (via @alainanana).
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The Easiest and Funniest Polaroid Image Maker →
via (@holdthatthought)
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Getting Started: Building Brand Equity with Social...
I had a lot of requests lately to help people and companies determine if they should use social media to build their brand equity. Here are the 5 key points I have mentioned:
1. Do It. Don’t be afaid to take the plunge. The social web gives you the opportunity to reach your customers and target audience on a personal level that nothing else can compare to. You want the ability to speak to...
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Facebook: Soon You Will Have A Username
On Saturday June 13 at 12:01AM, Facebook will open up their doors to vanity URLs, or user names. Since Facebook started, they prided themselves on having people use their real names to connect to those they know. The one thing Facebook lacked was a way to distinguish ourselves on the web and for search engines. A vanity URL, user name, will solve this problem.
To give an example, my Facebook...
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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live →
The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly?…
I, too, was skeptical at first. I had met Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-creator, a couple of times in the dotcom ’90s...
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Traditional Media Can't #crushit
The Newspaper Association of America just came out with stats regarding newspaper ad sales during the first quarter of 2009. The news (no pun intended)? Advertising sales shrunk 28.3% ($2.6 ba ba billion) from where they were a year ago.
The ticker: printads decline 29.7%; onlinesales decline 13.4%; classifieds decline 42.3%; totaladsales decline 16.6%; retailsales decline 23.7%.
We all know...
“If you want to improve your chances, you should think far more about who you can...”
– Paul Graham
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7 Technologies Shaping the Future of Social Media →