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Recommended iPhone App

irish.typepad.com     Jul 28, 2008          

ONE OF THE BEST iPhone applications available for immediate download comes from Truphone. This is the first low-cost VoIP calling service for the iPhone. I have used it with Nokia mobile phones for nearly four months and the...                    

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AOL: Getting Back To Basics

federatedmedia.net     Jul 28, 2008          

AOL is jettisoning a bunch of unsuccessful projects in an effort to trim costs, and perhaps to slap some lipstick on the pig to find a buyer, according to Rafat Ali, Mike Arrington, and Larry Dignan.On the blogging side,...                    

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Five Thoughts for New (and old) Bloggers

technosailor.com     Jul 27, 2008          

During the process of reorganizing things, I had to go back through all four years of my archives, a step that kicked me into a significant introspective mode. Where have I come from? Where am I going? Honestly, much of my...                    

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TEN Reasons Digg Not Getting Acquired…Nope, Just One!

howardlindzon.com     Jul 26, 2008   2 related          

The price is wrong. Digg is truly the most useless of the big Web 2.0 sites. It won’t make you money and it can’t make money. It’s early investors and founder will make money and if they pull off a sale, management and the...                    

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Mobile platform tug-of-war

ecoustics.com     Jul 26, 2008   5 related          

Posted by Dan Farber Post a Comment If you weren't aware, a war--more like a tug-of-war--is happening in the mobile space. The iPhone is quickly rising as the development platform to beat, despite its paltry share of market...                    

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Plurkshop #9 Recap: The Downsides of Social Media and Social Networking

moblogsmoproblems.blogspot.com     Jul 25, 2008          

As I've written about before, I'm a big fan of Plurk. These have been fantastically popular, with most now averaging 400 replies an hour.The latest Plurkshop was hosted on Thursday by marketing expert Lewis Green of L&G...                    

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CrunchBadge

kentbrewster.com     Jul 25, 2008          

Here's a single-line JavaScript include that will check all the links on your page for pointers to CrunchBase, heat 'em up, and pop up a badge full of lovely explanatory data when your reader mouses over and holds for a...                    

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Hip Hop Schools Silicon Valley

blicio.us     Jul 25, 2008          

words by Larry Chiang, pictures by Brian Solis Chamillionaire, MC Hammer, MistahFAB Quincy Jones III Mark McCormack wrote about street smart sports stars in his book, “What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School”. I...                    

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Facebook Connect + Payments = Social Commerce

socialmediatoday.com     Jul 26, 2008   1 related          

suggesting that the unlaunched Facebook payments platform in conjunction with Facebook Connect is the future of social commerce. I agree and I’ve also suggested that with Facebook Connect, the Social Ads service could also be...                    

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10 Digg stories not even Kevin Rose could make popular [Gaming The System]

valleywag.com     Jul 25, 2008   1 related          

Of the 377 stories Digg founder Kevin Rose has submitted to his social news site, 367 went to the site's front page. When I read this, all I could think was: God, those 10 that didn't make it must have really sucked. Maybe he...                    

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