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"CLEVELAND, Ohio — Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded nearly $670 million..."

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:24:30 -0500

“CLEVELAND, Ohio — Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded nearly $670 million of Cleveland’s debt because of the city’s dwindling cash reserves, declining income tax revenues and the region’s poor economic outlook.”

- Moody’s Investors Service assigns negative outlook on Cleveland’s debt | cleveland.com

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Make Word, PowerPoint and Excel Work Like Google Docs

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:06:04 -0500

Make Word, PowerPoint and Excel Work Like Google Docs:

Cool and now part of Google.

Painless, real time sharing and simultaneous group-editing of Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents.

Location Will Be This Year’s Twitter At SXSW

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:35:35 -0500

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 mature. But last year saw some new entries rise. Both Foursquare and Gowalla launched at the conference, with Foursquare gaining much of the momentum coming out of the conference (as some of us predicted). And this year, I suspect it will be largely an extension of that, with location services in general being the talk of the show.

"This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm, and each will be..."

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:29:48 -0500

“This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm, and each will be determined at a gathering just like this one. The decisions made at the weekly Search Quality Launch Meeting will wind up affecting the results you get when you use Google’s search engine to look for anything — “Samsung SF-755p printer,” “Ed Hardy MySpace layouts,” or maybe even “capital Burkina Faso,” which just happens to share its name with this conference room”

- Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine

"Pillars One and Two [titled WOW Makeover and There’s No Place Like Home] came out of two Red..."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:08:24 -0500

““Pillars One and Two [titled WOW Makeover and There’s No Place Like Home] came out of two Red Room Dialogs we had with 50 NEO tech executives. The Third and Fourth pillars [called Go 4 It and Welcome Mat respectively] I developed after reading 2000 pages of research on Atlanta, Research Triangle Park, Northern Virginia and Silicon Valley for Joe Frolick’s show on WVIZ.””

- 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

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:13:39 -0500

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.

Gotta love low-tech! georgenemeth: From my friend Maurice...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:19:29 -0500

Gotta love low-tech!

georgenemeth:

From my friend Maurice Small:

built in an hour. the proof is in the compost.

Proposable.com

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:23:53 -0500

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 job as a management..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:16:56 -0500

“LeMieux invented the generator after convincing his wife that he should quit his job as a management consultant in Cleveland. He then “emptied out the savings account,” netting $20,000. After three days of tinkering in his basement, the mechanical engineering graduate finished a prototype. In 2007, he formed Tremont Electric, in Tremont, Ohio, with himself as CEO. He’s now selling the product for $149 through Tremont’s Web site, greennpower.com.”

- 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 now—the best tech deals..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:34:24 -0500

“GreenRoad proves what a lot of smart investors have been saying for a while now—the best tech deals are no longer in a much picked over “tech sector” per say, they’re applying technology to old-world industries.”

- Al Gore Joins Richard Branson in Backing GreenRoad

"But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s,..."

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:37:53 -0500

“But that boon comes at a price. As the media theorist Marshall McLuhan pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”

- Is Google Making Us Stupid? - The Atlantic (July/August 2008)

Dump the clicker. Use your Droid as a remote control on FiOS. | Google Android Blog

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:29:19 -0500

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 on the Droid.

The My Remote feature will allow users to search for content using the Droid’s physical QWERTY keyboard and manage the Facebook/Twitter widgets. My Photos will beam photos stored on their phone onto the television screen, making it easier to share pictures and run slideshows of mobile snapshots or other images stored on the phone.

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"Piryx Non-Profit brings to the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation the opportunity to reach out and get..."

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:58:47 -0500

“Piryx Non-Profit brings to the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation the opportunity to reach out and get donations on a world-wide basis. Paul Korzilius Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation”

- Piryx - Payments for the Social Web | Platform | Non-Profit

hollrr.com - Shout about the things you love

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:53:29 -0500

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. The trust in a friend’s judgment is still hard to surpass. And as friends, we love to give a recommendation that we think will help a friend out.

Hollrr is the fun and easy way to share recommendations for great new products and services.

Wufoo: Online HTML Form Builder - Contact, Survey & Payment Forms

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:25:00 -0500

Wufoo: Online HTML Form Builder - Contact, Survey & Payment Forms:

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

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:12:25 -0500

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!

Steve Jobs obviously speaks from experience… hiten: Steve...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:02:12 -0500

Steve Jobs obviously speaks from experience…

hiten:

Steve Jobs_Stay Hungry. Stay foolish (via One Trick Pony in FlickR)

Will Google ‘Send’ a mobile, social Gmail application?

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:18:34 -0500

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. Hopefully they will be.

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Facebook Pages, Groups and Profiles Explained – WebWorkerDaily

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:58:29 -0500

Facebook Pages, Groups and Profiles Explained – WebWorkerDaily:

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.