Social Network Service and Feed Pluralism
A few months ago my biggest concern was over whether or not it was a good idea for someone to create a social network aggregator. I spent some time looking at social network aggregators and even more time considering the implications for user privacy involved with them. I also considered the subject of OpenID, a […]
Android vs. Blackberry Platform?
“Research In Motion (RIM) (TSX: RIM; NASDAQ: RIMM), RBC (RY: TSX; RY: NYSE) and Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI; TSX: TRI; LSE: TRIL; NASDAQ: TRIN), today announced plans to launch the BlackBerry® Partners Fund, a US$150 million venture capital fund, to invest in mobile applications and services for the BlackBerry® platform and other mobile platforms. The […]
Startup Women
I have been to far too many creative, technology and startup company related events where I’ve left scratching my head as to why the crowd has so few women in it. If I started looking for Women who have founded startup companies the number decreases yet again. In the the recent Mid Atlantic Business Plan […]
Android Update
If you got excited about the iPhone then get ready for the next roller coaster ride, the Android Phone. If you haven’t been following lately then you probably haven’t missed much. But now that summer is near, so is the debut of the Android Phone, which will be based on a new open source operating […]
Fireball Takes Twitter To The Next Level
Today a new startup called FireBall launched in private beta today. FireBall works with Twitter, Google Maps, and Upcoming.org to create a on the fly interactive mobile social network based on your existing network. The service uses Twitter to determine who you are connected to and then ties you to them so that it can […]
Changing Web Content Consumption Patterns
Just as everyone online starts to figure out how to create really cool web content mashups, the web is taking off in a whole new direction. Websites like Indeed.com that aggregate content from other sites that will let them (Craigslist won’t) have been all the rage for the last few years.
This has […]
Move Over Linkedin, Here Comes Twitter
There has a been a quiet wave moving across the ocean of social media lately. If you weren’t paying attention, or attending SXSW, then you may have missed it. It is called Twitter, but given the buzz that it has been receiving lately you would not assume that a startup with such an […]
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