September 2009
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growsmartbiz & a brand for small businesses →
there was a very cool event in washington dc yesterday for small businesses called growsmartbiz. the day was filled with interesting speakers from near and far. and while chris anderson of wired…
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“If you’re not quite sure what this Singularity thing is all about,...”
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The Singularity and Society | Open The Future | Fast Company
um.. wow. looks fascinating. Jamais Cascio has a fascinating talk on Oct 3rd called
Putting the Human Back in the Post-Human Condition aka If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Singularity
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“Today, I invite you to consider the many ways you’ve been fortunate – and write...”
– Gratitude: free way to be happy | Connecticut Watchdog
Take Control: Change Your Life in 17 Minutes Gratitude Can Chase the Blues Away
What a nice article posted by Dr.Doreen Stern (aka “The Life Docktor”).
(via thankful4)
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buoyant →
last year i did a photo series of buoys from my dad’s lobsterboat. i decided to give it another go this summer and make it an ongoing personal project. it’s one of those things i just never get…
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eye candy from TechCrunch50 →
of course you didn’t think i was going to end with just one post on techcrunch50, right? sheesh. i was just reserving the fun stuff for today. my favorite part of techcrunch50 is wandering around…
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“Why do we care to write about this? Actually deals like Zimbra is why we never...”
– The Real Cost of Acquisitions: the Zimbra Story | Zoho Blogs (via caterpillarcowboy)
TechCrunch - ThankfulFor: Share Your Gratitude...
by Jason Kincaid on September 21, 2009
Meet ThankfulFor, a new micromessaging site that is a “personal gratitude journal” which invites people to share the things they’re most thankful for in the form of 140 character long messages. It may sound like a strange idea, but apparently the practice of sharing your gratitude really can help improve your outlook on life (it’s a sort of reminder...
“In the film, Michael describes capitalism as evil. I disagree. I don’t...”
– Arianna Huffington: Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore’s New Movie (and So Must You)!
TechCrunch50: Year 3 →
How time flies. I remember when Mike first told us he was going to host a tech conference and after that first event, we were all exhausted and overwhelmed by the sheer amount of…
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Create something new in the world →
Love this.. that’s why I created http://thankfulfor.com :D
zenhabits:
Creating something new, something that people are looking for and will find useful, beautiful, inspiring … this is something that can fill your life with purpose, with joy, with passion. You don’t need to find motivation to write or create if you’re this excited. Create something new, and the world wins. And so do you.
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TechCrunch50 - Social Media Streams Session
Threadsy - “pull yourself together”. It’s a unified inbox of all your social networks and communications. There’s a lot going on here but pretty powerful stuff. It not only centralizes all of your communications, but builds complete profile pages about all the people in your network, offering you easy access to all their homes on the web. Scoble wanted to try it right...
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TechCrunch50 - Subscription & Commerce...
cocodot - a cool, well designed site for people and brands to create celebrations with an elevated brand aesthetic. It’s targeting a chic, eco-friendly audience, offering fully designed invitations, thank you cards, social network integration and more. They are focused on celebrations and virality and will make money from subscriptions, print services, gifting and advertising. Judges were...
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Techcrunch50 - News & Media Discovery
After a nice lunch outside and browsing the demo pit, here’s session 7 on day 2 at TechCrunch50. The panel of judges is Robert Scoble, Sean Parker, Dick Costolo, Reid Hoffman and Mike Schroepfer. While not very diverse, all had great feedback for the teams.
Thoora - news platform for delivering the stories with the most buzz and discussion around them. They look at traditional media posts...
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TechCrunch Day 2 - Business Applications Session
The all-male panel of experts this morning is Lior Zorea, Bradley Horowitz, Kevin Rose, Tim O’Reilly, Satish Dharmaraj
ClientShow - a tool for creative agencies to show, pitch and display their work. Their Beta opens today - it’s a good, simple way for businesses to prepare presentations for clients to view. Judge Tim O’Reilly, challenged the team on their actual business and...
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AIM at TechCrunch50
Christina Wick, JP Cozzatti and Jeremy Rephlo took the stage and introduced the audience to the newest AIM release, including the new iphone app. I’ve been using the AIM Lifestream for a while and love having it sitting on my desktop showing me all my network updates across facebook, twitter and AIM. Includes photo upload too. Like it!
Go to beta.aol.com to check it out.
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Techcrunch50 Attendees are Thankfulfor...
thankful4:
Sarah is thankfulfor… “a job because I’m in media (we’re screwed)”
Paul is thankfulfor… “coffee - because it’s not even 9am”
Thankfulfor… “my 2 beautiful & healthy boys”
Larry is thankfulfor… “my one-hit wonder. one blog hit. one Techcrunch guest post. one good company. Oh, and my Bestseller on Amazon.”
thankfulfor “height!”
Gabe is thankfulfor “conflict”
More...
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TC50 - Local & Classifieds Marketplaces
redbeacon -helps local services connect with customers allowing them to select and make appointments online, order services, etc. They put the power into the consumers hands because services compete for business. They had a fun fake demo delivering 500 cupcakes to attendees. Marc Andreesen pointed out the chicken/egg issue - tough to get all the service providers involved before you have an...
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TC50 - New Advertising & Monetization Platforms
Longer presentations, tougher judges, fewer graphics, more charts… This panel needed Yossi Vardi in a big way. But money is important so we still paid attention.
5to1.com - building a platform to encourage partnership between sellers and sites, described as “itunes meets match.com”. Interface is slick, but raised a question from the judges about work added to sites. Might be...
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TC 50 - The New Frontier Session
iTwin - the cable-less cable providing plug and play remote file access, coming in 2010. Looking for funding for mass production. It’s potentially for applications as well and could replace portable storage units. Just plug one end of the twin into one computer, use the other half with another computer to have access from either. Judges had mixed reviews.
imo - love the racecar getup and...
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Hanging at TC50, again
Year three - whoo hoo! Internet connection better than ever. Here are some thoughts on the Youth & Games presentations:
Penn & Teller - demo didn’t go so well, but app is fun and will probably sell well. It’s an iphone app that offers card tricks. Fav quote from Penn - “It’s really just a public service to get guys laid.” Ron Conway’s sentiment-...
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Launch Day!
WOOT! Please check it out and share with friends :)
thankful4:
It’s today - and boy are we thankful for that!
If you haven’t done so already, just go to thankfulfor.com, click the Sign Up button or sign in with your Twitter account. By default, all your posts are public, so visit your settings page if you want to make your posts private. Once you are in, it’s pretty simple – just post what...
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“Whether you are retelling existing stories or telling your own, practicing and...”
– Nick O’Neill, Why Stories Are The Key To Success (from Social Times)
“And finally, we tried something else: We made our software better. In late 2002,...”
– Joel Spolsky: Setting the Right Priorities