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Month: October 2010

Social Media

Digg’s Sailing Off-Course & Needs To Find A Captain To Steer It

It’s always fascinating to see how startups are growing. In San Francisco, there are a lot of technology companies being created practically every week or every month. Some fail and others succeed. But it’s pretty astonishing to see how one company has ballooned to such success over the course of the past few years only […]

Marketing

Judging Your Klout After A Product Relies On Influencers & Then Goes Bust

About a month ago, I received an email from the influence metric company Klout that said that I was eligible for an exclusive Klout perk. What I received was an opportunity to get a sneak preview at a new show distributed by FOX called Lone Star and what this meant was that FOX would ship […]

Trends & Analysis

Blocking UberCab Shows Incumbent Industries Need To Work With Disruptors

This afternoon, TechCrunch reported that San Francisco startup UberCab was issued a cease and desist order by San Francisco’s Metro Transit Authority and the Public Utilities Commission which should result in effectively shuttering the startups ability to even function. I first heard about UberCab while at the SF App Showcase in San Francisco where the […]

Marketing

MySpace’s Reinvents Itself Slightly, But Skepticism Remains On Future

October has been filled with several different logo changes, some that may have been denounced by the public and now another major change is set to emerge, specifically in the social networking world. The website undertaking this daring rebranding effort? MySpace. Yes. MySpace. Remember them? In the 90s and early 2000, MySpace was the place […]

Network Solutions

Flowtown: The Small Business Toolkit To Help Better Connect You To Your Customers

This is a cross-blog post from Network Solutions Solutions Are Power website that I guest wrote. Originally posted on SolutionsArePower.com on October 15, 2010. Have you ever wondered what you should do with that growing database of yours? There’s a whole wide world of social media out there, but it can be quite confusing and you […]

Social Media

Backlash Imminent: Something Jason Calacanis Said About Blogging Made Sense

A while ago I read an interesting article on The Next Web and also on the Guardian that talked about serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis’ recent news that he was planning on starting his own conference called the Launch Conference that would rival that of TechCrunch Disrupt. I must admit that the point that I’m about […]

Marketing

Rick Sanchez, CNN’s Social Media Host, Screws Up & Now You Worry About The Community

We all know how social media has changed the way that information is passed around the world. It has greatly contributed to the whole “citizen journalist” concept and one of the major breakthroughs was with the @breakingnews account on Twitter that amassed a huge following because it broke news from around the world way faster […]