Tag Archives: Social network

The AVC People List

By Shana | Published: January 31, 2010
Image by ShanaLC via Flickr I’m not sure what to say right now.  Though the AVC People list is here. (now you can’t complain, it is at the top of the post.) Originally I had started this list many moons ago because Fred Wilson told me that I should follow the people on AVC.com in order to [...]
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Techstars Boulder 2009 Roundup: Next Big Sound, Take Comics pt1, Everlater, and Losing Facebook Connect Virginity

By Shana | Published: August 26, 2009
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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The New York Tech MeetUp, The Reviews

By Shana | Published: August 6, 2009
Image by katielips via Flickr I’m Overly Exhausted, and very distracted, so this is very late getting out, but I thought I should do a writeup of the New York Tech Meetup. (this was written over a 24 hour period, so excuse the time wierdness in advance.) It was an interesting experience.  Sitting in the room, you [...]
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Growing Pains and Disqus

By Shana | Published: July 26, 2009
Image by BenSpark via Flickr Disqus is definitely one of the most powerful commenting systems out there.  Beyond having fabulous customer service, it also is seeming to promote a really social commenting community on blogs, as seen from Fred Wilson’s (currently) 183 comments here.  Whatever solution to solve the overwhelming feeling of seeing that many comments [...]
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Zemanta Part 2- It ain’t (exclusively) your fault- it’s emails.

By Shana | Published: July 21, 2009
Image by Tom Raftery via Flickr While others have already established that Zemanta is the essential blogging tool for adding yourself to the blog link cloud of awesomeness,  Zemanta for email is leaving me ehhhh and lost for the perfect use.
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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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