February 2010
23 posts
Location Will Be This Year’s Twitter At SXSW →
Three years ago, Twitter famously was the talk of the conference (it won the web award that year). While sure, it didn’t explode into mainstream popularity until sometime later, the writing was on the wall for the early-adopters who started using it there or shortly thereafter. Two years ago, it was arguably Twitter again that was the must-use service throughout the conference as it continued to...
“This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm,...”
– Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine
“Pillars One and Two [titled WOW Makeover and There’s No Place Like Home]...”
– This is classic Cleveland tech scene stuff. Did you drink the Kool-Aid? George Nemeth obviously didn’t.
CoolCleveland.com | Aand Qwith Cathy Panzica
Grogger | Crowdsource your Content →
Use a Grog – a “Group Blog” – to publish the best content of an entire community of contributors. Increase the quality and quantity of your content. Boost your users’ engagement. Dominate your topic.
Proposable.com →
Create and deliver web-based sales proposals in minutes. Be notified instantly when your proposals are viewed. Know exactly what your recipients are looking at and start selling in real-time!
“LeMieux invented the generator after convincing his wife that he should quit his...”
– America’s Most Promising Startups: A Portable Generator Powers a Startup - BusinessWeek
“GreenRoad proves what a lot of smart investors have been saying for a while...”
– Al Gore Joins Richard Branson in Backing GreenRoad
“But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed...”
– Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)
Dump the clicker. Use your Droid as a remote...
Pay attention FiOS TV customers. Verizon has just released a Mobile Remote Widget that makes it possible to control your television directly from a Motorola Droid. The new app is designed to replicate the FiOS remote and will work from anywhere in the home through your Wi-Fi network. The same HD set-top box controls like pause, rewind, and DVR settings found on a remote are also be available...
“Piryx Non-Profit brings to the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation the opportunity to...”
– Piryx - Payments for the Social Web | Platform | Non-Profit
hollrr.com - Shout about the things you love →
On a mission to help people discover great new products and services
We all love to discover great new products and services
The discovery of an awesome new product makes our day! It makes us happy to find out that someone has been thoughtful enough to create something that brings us joy or solves a problem we had.
The majority of these discoveries come from the recommendation of a friend....
Wufoo: Online HTML Form Builder - Contact, Survey... →
Very COOL!
What is Wufoo?
Wufoo strives to be the easiest way to collect information over the Internet.
Our HTML form builder helps you create contact forms, online surveys, and invitations so you can collect the data, registrations and online payments you need without writing a single line of code.
Scribe: SEO Copywriting Made Simple →
With Scribe you’ll:
Optimize content faster
Remove SEO guesswork
Employ SEO best practices
Preserve maximum readability
Increase targeted traffic!
Will Google ‘Send’ a mobile, social Gmail...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will tomorrow announce more “social” features to Gmail, such as status updates and sharing content. Considering that Gmail is a primary, free email service, this is a really great innovation for consumers. It also threatens dominant, dedicated social networks like Facebook and Twitter unless they too can be integrated into the Gmail social streams....
Facebook Pages, Groups and Profiles Explained –... →
This is one of the best overviews I’ve seen yet that includes a quick reference table of the features of Profiles, Pages and Groups.
Posterize.us
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extendr.com →
You’ve got links everywhere, for everything. Now you can easily share them all with one URL: yourname.extendr.com.
Your .extendr account is highly customizable, allowing you to organize URLs as you see fit. Use it to re-engineer your resume or portfolio. Use it as a temporary home page. Use it to neatly synthesize all that you are, online. It’s up to you, and it’s easy to do.
Far-reaching applications of mobile downloads -...
Number of mobile applications downloaded:
2009 : $2.5 billion
2010 : $4.5 billion
2013 : $21.6 billion
Revenue generated (consumer spend and advertisements):
2009 : $4.23 billion
2010 : $6.7 billion
2013 : $29.4 billion
Downloads in 2010 that will be free : 82 per cent
Source: Gartner
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“Facebook is the world’s leading social network, with over 300 million...”
– The Facebook Guide Book from Mashable
Free or Cheap Tools for Startups that Make It...
corkshare:
One of the main keys to startup success is to stay lean - you don’t want to get caught up in any unnecessary expenses. The entrepreneur’s financial motto should always be “If you don’t make money, don’t spend money.” A lot of what made CorkShare possible, and many other startups possible, are the free tools available to help us take care of business. Here are some great examples of...