Last night I had the opportunity to attend my first Washington, D.C. Blogger Meetup. It was a great experience and I met a lot of passionate D.C. bloggers. One of the more interesting bloggers that I had the chance to speak with was Abi Jones of HeatEatReview.com. Abi and her writers post reviews of frozen [...]
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Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about Rohit Bhargava’s ‚Äú5 Rules of Social Media Optimization (SMO)‚Äù. While it was published last August, it still can be utilized today and will continue to have an impact into the future. My conclusion from the post? Social Media Optimization means being a good community participant. By [...]
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I am proud to announce the arrival of Tech Cocktail to Washington, D.C. I will be co-hosting the event with Frank Gruber, the co-founder of Tech Cocktail. What is Tech Cocktail? Tech Cocktail is a series of mixer events that are opened to bloggers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and other business professionals interested in the technology [...]
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Just yesterday, Mike Arrington announced the TechCrunch20 conference at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The event is going to feature 20 startups that get to demo their products for free to all the attendees. The price for the event? A whopping $1,995 through July 15, 2007 and $2,495 through September 10, 2007. A [...]
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Yesterday, Duncan Watts posted an interesting article about the effect of cumulative advantage in the music and movie markets. Through an online study of more than 14,000 participants, Watts, along with Matthew Salganik and Peter Dodds were able to draw a few important conclusions. The most important finding was that while quality had an impact [...]
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Recently I have been going to a lot of conferences. As I wrote two days ago, I will be attending the Future of Online Advertising in June. Also, I was at the Future of Web Apps in February and attended Podcamp NYC last weekend. Why on earth have I been attending so many damn conferences? [...]
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With all the buzz surrounding social media and blogs, it is very easy to begin thinking that soon enough there will be nothing but media on the web. Soon enough there will be no more television or newspaper and everyone will spend their days consuming the web. Well, not exactly. As Victor Keegan writes, “to [...]
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Yesterday I registered for the Future of Online Advertising Conference. The conference is taking place June 7-8 in New York City and has some really excellent speakers. Two of my favorite speakers at the conference are Darren Rowse of Problogger and Steve Rubel of Edelman. The conference is being put on by Carson Systems (Ryan [...]
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This past weekend at Podcamp NYC I attended a presentation by Drew Olanoff of Pluggd. Toward the end of the presentation Drew began accepting questions at which point I decided to ask ‚ÄúWhat is your current revenue model?‚Äù His response was ultimately that they don’t currently have a revenue model as investors are investing in [...]
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My friend Orli Yakuel announced today (with co-creator Eyal Shahar) a new widget for her site Go2Web20.net. The sheer number of new web startups that are listed on her site is pretty impressive. You can use the following html to embed the widget on your site: <embed src=”http://www.go2web20.net/widget.swf?maxItems=3&delay=5″ width=”200″ height=”200″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”></embed> Simply change the number [...]
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