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Amazing Dinner!

Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 31st, 2007

I just returned from an amazing dinner with some insanely inspirational people. I had the opportunity to sit, eat and chat with Om Malik, Frank Gruber, Ryan Carson and his wife, Brian Williams, Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk and Gary’s wife, Tim Ferriss, the organizers of the New New Internet Conference, James Surowiecki, Rohit Bhargava and [...]

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P.R. People Don't Break News

Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 19th, 2007

Robert Scoble seems to have the impression that P.R. people provide Mike Arrington with breaking news on a regular basis. When it comes to product reviews he may be right. The only reason for this? Mike doesn’t have aggressive competition. That’s the difference between new media and old media and under Scoble’s description TechCrunch is [...]

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Google Can't Count Right

Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 14th, 2007

Robert Scoble has posted about the number of Google subscribers each of the Techmeme leaderboard blogs have. For some reason though my subscription count in Google reader is showing up as only 196. According to feedburner though, I have thousands of RSS subscribers of which over 52% are using Google reader. That would result in [...]

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Big Announcement Coming Soon

Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 10th, 2007

I have been working feverishly over the past couple weeks. I am preparing to launch a new company. I previously wrote about working on Facebook development. I have decided instead to spend most of my time blogging instead. I will be launching something new in the coming weeks. I’ll post about it on here and [...]

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D.C. Has Second Highest Tech Population

Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 2nd, 2007

According to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the D.C. metro area has the second highest concentration of I.T. professionals in the U.S. next to Silicon Valley. For all those that are trying to help put the D.C. tech community together, it appears as though this is a pretty good goal given the density. Conversely, [...]

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AllFacebook.com In Top 100 Tech Blogs

Posted by Nick O'Neill on October 1st, 2007

Dave Winer has published the Techmeme top 100 blogs. If you hadn’t heard already, Techmeme is releasing a new tech blog leaderboard tomorrow. My other blog AllFacebook.com has come in 62 on the list. Not bad for starting the blog a few months ago! People that rank lower on the scale include Financial Times, USA [...]

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