Last week I traveled to the Midwest to Champaign, Illinois to speak to a group of entrepreneurs about building brands and social media as covered by the Champaign News Gazette and to host another TECH cocktail. The event was sponsored by Wolfram Research.
Topics: Answers, Blogging, Bootstrapping, Business, Champaign, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Event, Illinois, Internet, Questions, Research, science, Search, Social Media, software, SOMEWHAT FRANK TV, Startup, Startups, Strategy, Tech, Technologies, Technology, Theodore Gray, Tool, Video, Web 2.0, Wolfram Alpha, Wolfram Research

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Two weeks ago I was able to take part in the 140 Conference hosted by Jeff Pulver in New York City. I was pleased to be among the characters at the event which brought together Twitter users from a number of different walks of life and geographic...
Topics: 140 Conference, 140conf, Ann Curry, Chris Brogan, Conference, Conferences, Diane Birch, Event, Events, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jeff Pulver, Melissa Haro, NY, NYC, Technologies, Technology, Trends, Twitter, Wyclef Jean

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After making my second stop to the Apple Store in two days, I finally got my hands on an iPhone 3GS. My first attempt was unsuccessful because the AT&T network was down. So when I returned the next day, I decided to go with the white 32GB version since...
Topics: 3GS, Apple, Camera, Device, Gadget, Gadgets, Innovation, iPhone, iPhone Application, iTunes, Mobile, Tech, Technologies, Technology, Video, Video Test, YouTube

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How important is influence on the Web? My friend Micah Baldwin recently called Influence the New Hotness. I agree, Influence is hot and it is nothing new though the currency has changed. Just a few years back the most important currency was incoming...
Topics: Alerts, Data, Facebook API, Filtrbox, Influence, internet, Lifestreaming, Monitor, Real-time, SEO, social, Social Currency, Social Media, Startup, Startups, Tech, Tool, Tools, Twitter, Web 2.0

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Apple will soon be launching of the iPhone 3.0 operating system and part of the new system is a push alert notification feature as highlighted at WWDC 2009 this week. Push Notification is the system developed by Apple to remedy the fact that the iPhone...
Topics: AIM, AOL, Apple, Applications, Beta, Developers, Gadget, Gadgets, Innovation, iPhone, iPhone Application, Mobile, Mobile Social Network, Tech, TechCrunch, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web

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