I’ve just learned that my good friend Gary Vaynerchuk is going to appear on the Conan O’Brien show tomorrow night. That’s huge! For those of you don’t know who Gary is, he was one of the sponsors of our past Tech Cocktail (which we will have news about the next one in the next day [...]
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If you want to know what differentiates successful entrepreneurs from the rest, I can sum it up in four words: they bust their ass. Thomas Edison said that genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration and boy was he right. I have been experiencing this in a big way with my other blog. [...]
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This weekend news surfaced that Google has put aside a $4.6 billion war chest to try and obtain the 700 MHz spectrum. If Google succeeded they could provide unlimited wireless broadband internet to cell phones and computers. As Mike Arrington highlights, Google wants to have four “key platform rules” adopted: Open applications Open devices Open [...]
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Definitely not but one thing is for sure, Google is going to have to become a little more tame. After snapping up over 13,000 employees and a large number of companies, Google has missed earnings. Many had been predicting that this was going to be the burst of the Web 2.0 bubble, myself included. Google’s [...]
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I was trying to come up with a great post last night and this morning for my blog but everywhere I looked, the discussion was about Facebook. Take a look at Techmeme this morning and you will see 5 separate articles about Facebook. I have to wonder how long this can last. Facebook is the [...]
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Last night I was pacing back and forth contemplating my plan for world domination. While I have yet to figure out how I’m going to do it, I will surely let you know when I figure it out. One thing that I figured out during my nightly pacing was how to expand my global media [...]
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I’ve been reading a lot about iPhone applications and development and I have been trying to figure out what is so special about programming for the iPhone. There has been an insane amount of hype surrounding iPhone applications but ultimately an iPhone application is just a website. There are entire meetups being dedicated to iPhone [...]
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For those of you that were at the first DC Tech Cocktail, you may not have known that it was started in Chicago. Eric Olson and Frank Gruber started it last year and are now holding the 5th one today. There will be more to come in the next couple months including one next month [...]
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Back in February there was a lot of discussion as to whether or not blogging has peaked. Much of the discussion revolved around the daily posting volume in the blogosphere. At the beginning of April Steve Rubel was asking the same question. While there hasn’t been another “state of the blogosphere” report released recently, I [...]
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Last night I has some kind of epiphany while driving home. I was trying to think more about the big picture of social networks, Facebook, and start pages. Where is this really going and where do companies need to be? Since Facebook opened up their platform any successful social network will have to follow. Just [...]
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