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andrew_null posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:45:55 -0800

Checking out new mailing list on Lean Startups
I have been casually lurking on a new Google group focusing on the techniques around Lean Startups pioneered by Steve Blank and...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:00:16 -0800

Think Tank Study Shows Top Web Trends Are Security Risks
Mobile technology, virtualization, the social web, cloud computing - a think tank study has all our good friends on a hit...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:11:56 -0800

Tweetsgiving: The Twitter Way To Give Thanks
Happy Tweetsgiving! At any number of companies, people are being asked to do their part. To give something back to their...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:05:28 -0800

Investimonials Wants To Be Your Guide To Quality Financial Products
If you've ever tried searching the web for financial advice, you probably know just how much junk there is out there. Sure,...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:49:27 -0800

SupportSpace Raises $10 Million Series B
SupportSpace, a company that provides on-demand remote tech support solutions, announced today that it has raised $10 million...
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Chris Brogan posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:30:52 -0800

Travel for Success – Overnight Success
And for our next installment of the Overnight Success series, let’s talk about travel. Success doesn’t come to your...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:07:12 -0800

Aviary’s Chrome Extension Proves That These Add-Ons Are Going To Be Awesome
I have something to admit: I've never been a big extension guy. When I was still using Firefox, I liked them, but the...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:07:49 -0800

Volvo IT Department Gets Banned From Wikipedia For Racist Rants
One of the risks facing any enterprise is how to deal with people who use the corporate network to post rude, sexist or even...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:45:47 -0800

Google Turning Times Square Into A Giant Voice Search Experiment On Black Friday
There are few things more terrifying to me than the idea of going anywhere near a shopping establishment on Black Friday. But...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:25:29 -0800

Thumbtack Takes On RedBeacon As It Looks To Bring Local Service Providers Online
Last month we saw the launch of TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon, the startup that lets you book local service providers directly...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:09:25 -0800

Yahoo Loses The Brains Behind Boss
The brains behind Yahoo Boss, a young engineer named Vik Singh, is leaving Yahoo to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at...
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andrew_null posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:26:14 -0800

Product design debt versus Technical debt
Amazon’s tabs are a classic example of product design debt and the refactoring process to pay it down Incrementalism...
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Chris Brogan posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:26:00 -0800

Gift Ideas 2009
Last year, I put together a little Amazon gift store of ideas for people, and I got great feedback. The idea was something...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:04:16 -0800

Wikileaks Releases Over Half a Million Pager Messages from 9/11
Earlier this morning, Wikileaks began to post pager messages that were sent on September 11, 2001. According to Wikileaks,...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:58:06 -0800

Navigation App Waze Makes Crowdsourced Map-Building a Game
The latest edition of mobile navigation app Waze has just launched in the iTunes App Store and on the Android Market Place with...
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DrewMcLellan posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:32:41 -0800

Don't get brand sabotaged (Todd Hogan)
Drew's Note: As I try to do on many a Friday (or Thanksgiving Wednesday!), I'm pleased to bring you a guest post. Meet a...
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Kevin Gamble posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:53:00 -0800

The ideal university social media educator
Image via WikipediaThis is the story of Andrea, a faculty member at a major public university. She isn't real. She's a hybrid...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:11:07 -0800

iPhone To Be Sold In The UK Equivalent Of Walmart
Is an iPhone price war about to break out in the UK? After Vodafone and Orange bagged the iPhone - when O2's two year monopoly...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:05:56 -0800

KIDO’Z Upgrades Its Web Environment For Kids
KIDO'Z, the Israeli company behind the eponymous media browser for kids, has released a new version of its program and insists...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:01:04 -0800

Four Years In, You Can Now Subscribe To WordPress.com Blogs By E-mail
You would think that, almost exactly 4 years after opening up to the public, WordPress.com would have a way for people to...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:56:41 -0800

Scamville Shakeout: Was Gambit The Right Fall Guy?
I'm not sure any lasting change will come from our series of Scamville posts. For now the most egregious of the social gaming...
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Richard posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:10:40 -0800

The Most Influential Websites in the World: Wikipedia #1, Twitter #4 With a Bullet
A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good 'Influence Index' for the Web....
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:07:12 -0800

Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008
Earlier today GigaOm reported that Dropbox raised a new $7.25 million funding round over the summer (a number they derived from...
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Chris Brogan posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:40:46 -0800

How to Use Your Blog for Stock Answers
There are lots of things you have to answer more than once as a business (or even as an individual). In the book Trust Agents,...
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michael Arrington posted a blog entry

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:07:07 -0800

If Kerouac Lived In The Present, OnTheRoad, The Service, May Have Interested Him
There's a ton of buzz around location right now. Our discussion on it at the RealTime CrunchUp this past Friday easily could...
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