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| Jan 25, 2013 | A Day In The Life Of YouTube’s Fancy-Pants New L.A. Studio | Far from the Walk of Fame or the fabled sign, this is not Hollywood. Too far southeast from the beaches filled with silicon tech and silicone bodies, we’re miles away from the beaten path. In a converted helicopter hangar once owned by Howa... |
| Oct 18, 2012 | Recon Instruments launches heads-up display for thrill-seeking wingsuit flyers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Wingsuit pilots are a little crazy. They jump off cliffs or out of airplanes and glide with precision, as if they were birds with (puff... |
| Sep 13, 2012 | Social Networking For Authors & Overcoming The Rejection Slip | Yesterday I reviewed the leading social network for book readers, Goodreads. In the second post in my Social Books series, I’m checking out a brand new social network for book writers. Called Writer’s Bloq, it was founded by a young wannabe... |
| May 5, 2012 | Jailbreaking the Degree | Editor’s note: David Blake is the Founder of Degreed, the new degree for the new world. Previously, he helped launch New Charter University and was a founding member of Zinch, since acquired by Chegg.
Jailbreak verb. 1 To get out of a restr... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Apple Refuses To Sell Book That Links To Amazon Store | Apple may be a big dog in music and movie sales and rentals, but it’s definitely not a big dog in e-books. That’s what makes this note from Seth Godin particularly galling. In a post on PaidContent, Godin writes that Apple has refused to se... |
| Nov 30, 2011 | Why I'm doing ALL my holiday shopping online this year | In case you remain skeptical of the miracle of online shopping, here's why I love it
I’ve decided it’s time for a change. This year, I’m taking a stand. No more malls, big box stores, outlet centers, or after-shopping refueling stops at IHO... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | Comcast and Skype to bring video calls to TV | The new project will allow users to make and receive video calls from their TV
While phones are quickly becoming the main point of connection for everything from Web surfing to shopping, TV (the other primary medium with which we spend most... |
| Dec 7, 2010 | How to get free publicity for your startup | Generate buzz for your startup by taking advantage of free tools on the Web
Many startups will run into this dilemma at one time or another. “How do you get the word out about your company without spending thousands on advertising?”
Luckily... |
| Nov 16, 2010 | Whose Sari Now? | Image via Wikipedia |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Zuckerberg, 'The Social Network' And The Rise Of The Terror Nerd | The first thing you’ll do after watching Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s The Social Network is visit the “History” subsection of the Wikipedia article on Facebook, seeking details on how much in the film is actually true, but primarily loo... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Startup Roundup: Donation facilitation a trend; Kenexa acquires Salary.com for $80m | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Online Publishing Site HubPages Launches Real-Time Content Feeds | HubPages, a content community based around topics, is adding a new real-time feature this week: feeds. The site lets anyone create “Hubs” around any type of topic, and divided content into forums, questions and answers.
The new feed makes i... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | Lunch.com’s Twitter Lists make every day #followfriday | Lunch.com founder J.R. Johnson has already made his money. Now he wants his social network to foster critical thinking. “I don’t want to have people just say ‘I’m for universal health care,’ he told me on the phone this morning. “I want the... |
| Sep 30, 2009 | Lunch.com’s Twitter Lists make every day #followfriday | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Lunch.com founder J.R. Johnson has already made h... |
| Sep 25, 2009 | Squidoo Backs Down On 'Brand Campaign' As Many Are 'Not so Happy' About It | Squidoo founder and author Seth Godin has backed down on creating company pages by default as part of their new ‘Brands In Public’ service that launched a few days ago. The idea behind the new service is that brands are able to track feedba... |
| Sep 23, 2009 | Squidoo Aims To Make Brands Pay For Dedicated Web Dashboards | Remember Squidoo? Founded by current CEO and famous marketing guru Seth Godin, the service allows Internet users to generate rich, topical web pages (dubbed ‘lenses’) to serve as a hub for information, videos, links etc. centered around any... |
| Aug 9, 2009 | Chris and Malcolm are both wrong | Many of you are familiar with dust up between Chris Anderson and Malcolm Gladwell that was touched off by Malcolm’s review of Chris’s new book, Free: The Future of Radical Price. [UPDATE: Free is no longer free. The link to Chris’s book has... |
| Jun 23, 2009 | Plans to grow by | Two events last week prompted me to write this post. The first was that my wife watched some crappy movie with our daughter the other week about magically becoming young again for a while.
Actually “crappy” was her word, not mine, although ... |
| Jun 6, 2009 | What's in a name, Bing haters? | This episode of Recovery is brought to you by Keyboard Cat. Because this week needs played off something fierce.
The responses are in, Scott's wrung the votes out of the staff, and you all know at last the three names dubbed Better Than Bin... |
| May 22, 2009 | Twine Is Taking Off, Now Bigger Than FriendFeed | It turns out that people are following more than just their friends online. Look at the comScore chart above comparing unique visitors in the U.S. to FriendFeed versus Twine. Yeah, I was shocked to see that Twine has more than three times a... |
| May 15, 2009 | 10 years of permission marketing | Daily Candy sold for more than $120 million and it is a permission-marketing machine
When I wrote Permission Marketing, people thought I was some sort of crackpot (some people still do, fortunately). One author wrote that I was "delusi... |
| May 8, 2009 | Hacking Education | It has been two months since we hosted a great group of academics, entrepreneurs, educators, and administrators at our Union Square Sessions Event, Hacking Education. Fred posted his initial thoughts immediately after the event and in a gre... |
| Mar 3, 2009 | Behance’s Scott Belsky on productivity tools for the creative community | Action is the substance of excellence. Far too often our ideas distract us from what we need to do because we focus on what we could do.
The tech industry is fueled by novel ideas. But its preoccupation with measurable results often means t... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | 5 Good Ways To Discover Twitter Applications | Twitter, runner-up for best overall startup and winner of the best startup founder(s) at the Crunchies 2008 awards ceremony last night, was without a doubt one of the most talked about web companies last year, and we don’t see that changing... |
| Nov 9, 2008 | Marketing lessons from the U.S. election | Regardless of nationality or political leanings, there are lessons to be learned
It turns out that one way you learn about marketing is by analyzing it. (The other way is to do it). Yet people hate analyzing three really useful but emotiona... |
| Oct 31, 2008 | Rapid growth (and destruction) of marketing | A purple cow is a remarkable story; a story that spreads
Hand selling
Mass marketing-Billboards-Newspaper ads-Radio ads-TV ads-Banner ads
Direct marketing-Direct mail-Coupons-Spam
Viral marketing
Permission marketing-email-relevant text ads... |
| Oct 30, 2008 | Google Knol Opens In French, German and Italian (Update: And More) | Google Knol, which we’ve likened to a monetizable Wikipedia upon launch, has quietly released three international versions today, enabling French, German and Italian speaking experts (or people who like to think they are experts) to contrib... |
| Sep 15, 2008 | Web warps convention | The IT sector has known for years what the internet is proving now – the demand/supply equation has been turned on its head. Where does your business sit? PAUL WALLBANK
By Paul Wallbank
Get daily business news.
The latest stories, funding i... |
| Sep 11, 2008 | How often should you publish? | The discussion is usually filled with superstitions, traditions and half-truths
How many movies should you star in next year?
How many records should you release? How many songs should you write?
How many times a week should you post to you... |
| Sep 16, 2007 | Squidoo Gets Into People Search | We’re not sure when it launched, but Fred Wilson has discovered that Seth Godin’s Squidoo has quietly entered the people search field with a new product called Squidwho.
Squidwho provides similar features to competitors including Wink, Spoc... |
| Sep 15, 2007 | SquidWho - When A Product Becomes A Platform | I wrote a post a week ago talking about products that become platforms.
I started it off with a discussion about the Mahalo/Gnomedex thing. That was a mistake. It clouded the point I was trying to make. And that point is that the best produ... |
| Jul 10, 2007 | Google Acting Against Squidoo Due To Spam | A couple of reports across the net suggest that Seth Godin’s Squidoo is being penalized by Google, most likely due to spam on Squidoo pages.
The reports indicate that some Squidoo pages have seen a 75% drop in traffic, and in other cases ha... |
| May 7, 2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| Feb 20, 2007 | YourMinis Seeks to Relaunch the Startpage | The already highly competitive startpage space saw an interesting new play tonight when YourMinis.com relaunched with a changed site and a new strategy.
YourMinis is a beautiful aggregation of RSS feeds and web functionality that competes w... |
| Oct 11, 2006 | Helium: click to compare other peoples' topical writing | Massachusetts based Helium launched its user generated article database yesterday and combines original writing with user rankings and profit sharing. It’s an interesting model that’s more compelling that proved more compelling than I thoug... |
| Aug 10, 2006 | Hubpages helps you publish and make money; raises $2 million | Hubpages, a start-up based in Berkeley, has created a site that lets you publish your content — and seeks to help you make money with it by cross-tagging your content with other authors on the platform.
These days, it is easy to fall into t... |
| Aug 10, 2006 | Fanpop: an easy, fun way to share topical information | Fanpop is a recently launched site that brings together user submitted links, syndicated headlines, forums and social networking. It calls itself a place for fans to share their favorite content regarding any topic. This one scores high on ... |
| May 9, 2006 | Squidoo: Seth Godin's Purple Albatross? | Seth Godin is an exceptional marketing consultant. I’ve read all his books – my favorite is Purple Cow. I routinely bring up his ideas when talking to companies about the best way to get media and early adopter attention: build an exception... |
| Apr 10, 2006 | Squidoo in the Times This Morning | Squidoo was featured in Bob Tedeschi’s E-Commerce Report in the New York TImes today.
They positioned Squidoo as the "user generated about.com".
I have had a Squidoo page for AVC for the past six months and I’ve updated it today t... |
| Feb 7, 2006 | HubPages, a better Squidoo? | Paul Edmondson, the founder of HubPages in Berkeley, California, thinks Squidoo is onto a good idea, but needs improvement in a number of areas. And he’s in the process of building something he says will be significantly better, both for pu... |
| Dec 8, 2005 | Some Lens Love | I posted about Squidoo yesterday and asked the readers to go create some lenses and send me links to what they built.
Thankfully a few people did just that. And I’d like to highlight four that showcase the power of Squidoo.
Fabulous Shoppin... |
| Dec 7, 2005 | Squidoo Goes Live | My friends Seth and Tommy have been working on this project for at least six months.
I’ve watched them at work and have given them my feedback along the way.
And now I can blog about it. Because Squidoo went live for the public today.
I bui... |
| Oct 10, 2005 | Monday links: YouTube, Inform, Tagyu & more | Updated
–Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia Capital backs YouTube, the video company, Om Malik reports. We reported on YouTube here. If you remember, this is the company ambitiously dubbed the “Flickr of video.” Sequoia has invested $5 mil... |
| Oct 9, 2005 | Squidoo | Seth Godin was the first entrepreneur we backed at Flatiron Partners. His company, Yoyodyne, was the first company we sold to a portal (Yahoo!). His blog was the first blog I ever read. And it appears first (or last depending on how you cou... |
| Juntos somos um… número | Juntos somos um? Sim, um número! Afinal, o que não pode ser medido, não pode ser gerido. Veja de quais números nós fazemos parte.
Quando estamos no Facebook, somos 250 milhões de usuários. Quando compramos um netbook, somos 1,9 milhões de c... |
| 20 gurus do marketing online para você acompanhar | Todos sabemos que o marketing é importante, seja lá qual for o tamanho de sua empresa. É com ele que você vai se posicionar no mercado e tentar chegar a quem deve chegar.
Por isso mesmo achamos interessante compartilhar essa lista de Jayson... |
