Category Archives: Iteration

Critiques In Tech

By Shana | Published: October 10, 2009
Image by qthomasbower via Flickr In effort to catch up on posts I am thinking about (I still need to finish Techstars boulder, write up about the last NYTech Meetup which I will have to watch post the event, and read up on all the crazy news about ATT&T and mobile phones…and school), I thought I [...]
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CrowdSourcing Starting up, questions, Part 1

By Shana | Published: September 17, 2009
To Startup. And How To find a Partner. And Under What Circumstances. So there is this post going on at AVC.com. Aka Fred’s Place. There are enough ideas floating around in my head that it may or may not be logical to just go and found a startup. Here are the Logistical questions. [...]
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A Brief History of the Last Two Times Newspapers Dealt with Tech

By Shana | Published: July 30, 2009
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 Since then, [...]
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Zemanta, From Mission to Product Part 1

By Shana | Published: July 14, 2009
Image by chucks via Flickr Since the very first post of this blog, Zemanta, a plugin for richer content sharing in one’s writing, was implemented.  While it has been getting rave reviews from both trade and general press for the illustrative wealth it provides through semanticaly-related linksharing and images in blogs, most articles ignore the fact [...]
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The Internet is the New Computer

By Shana | Published: July 10, 2009
Most denizens of the Internet often fail to realize that, compared to the many machines we run the Internet on, the Internet is very young.  To give a fair analogy- the Internet in human age could be the child or the grandchild of the first computer, the Zuse Z3, made in 1941.  The Internet, in [...]
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Great Art is Stealing

By Shana | Published: July 6, 2009
Image via Wikipedia Why is it that the most successful work out there seem to be refinements of what already is? It seems mysteriously difficult to come up with something unique. Defining ones uniqueness in a market of competitors is among the most difficult tasks placed on anyone who is an entrepreneur.  It doesn’t matter what kind of [...]
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