Category Archives: Internet

WSJ on Web Money, scary thoughts.

So I was sent this link yesterday because of my love of Real Time Economics http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/09/the-currency-revolution/ It’s worth a read and discussion.  There discuss two different virtual currencies.  Two are mentioned- Serious, and Ven.
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The New York Tech Meetup RoundUp Take 2

Image by Esthr via Flickr September is Education Month.  Which is awesome because I am heading back to my last quarter of actual class this September if all goes well.  Scary times for all.
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Techstars Boulder 2009 Roundup: Next Big Sound, Take Comics pt1, Everlater, and Losing Facebook Connect Virginity

Image via CrunchBase So as usual, we’re overdue for a roundup.  Earlier, we heard about TechStars 2009.  There are already summaries of the products available, mainly at Techcrunch, and few at Fred Wilson‘s.  But we like doing reviews here.  So we are.
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Someone asked me about Second Life

Image by Pathfinder Linden via Flickr I was recently asked, in the comments section of this blog, whether there is potential in buying advertising space in Second Life.  I wanted to answer this question more generally- instead of dealing with just Second Life, is it worthwhile to develop a real life business through a virtual [...]
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Aggregators, The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly

Image by Dead Air via Flickr Another post that is imperative to write about. *sigh* I hate feeling like I can’t keep a good idea a secret.  I feel bad that this company didn’t realize a good idea in their own product when it was staring them in the face. So when I was at [...]
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The Matryokshka Doll Principle

Image by Jeff Belmonte via Flickr The Matryoshka Doll Principle, Chinese Box Design, however you would call it. This principle will be a guiding force for the rest of your career.  It forces you into a quality product.  I see it all the time in products, particularly tech products that we all crave, as a [...]
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While You Wait, The Internet is Like Teenagers.

I’m trying to write some other things up, but here is an early thought for your viewing pleasure. So here is that Guy Kawasaki panel with the “kids,” that critical demographic that everyone is trying to change into paying for things. One note: I’m in that demographic, mwahaha.  It’s a really hard demographic to be [...]
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Smartphone Tipoffs on the Street

Image by runnx via Flickr Currently on the Web, there is a lot of discussion about phones, particularly smartphones. I decided, in honor of this discussion, to do the following today: Go up to a few people and start chatting them up about their phones (particularly if they had a smartphone) and try to count [...]
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The New New Business of News

Image by Getty Images via Daylife While in some previous posts, there have been discussions of the theoretical maximum viewership of news-content, as well as the history of Newspaper, it is now time to discuss what does all of this mean in a practical sense. This is the third major age of newspapers, but not [...]
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A Brief History of the Last Two Times Newspapers Dealt with Tech

Image via Wikipedia As a medium of outward bound communication, Newspapers are about as old as the book.  The first agreed upon Newspaper was the Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, published in 1605 by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg, not much later than the invention of the Gutenberg Press , somewhere between 1439 and 1450 [...]
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