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The Emergence Of The Content Creation Class

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

Editor’s note: Guest contributor Joseph Puopolo is an entrepreneur and startup enthusiast, who blogs on a variety of topics including green initiatives, technology and marketing.
The content creation class shall inherit the Internet. Richard Florida coined the expression the “Creative Class”, his belief being that these some 30 to 40 million would be the driving [...]

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7 Reasons Why Pinterest Isn’t Yet Ready for Tech Brands

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Sivan Cohen & Ben Lang, community managers at Conduit & Wibiya.
Managing a tech brand means you always need to be on the lookout for innovative and creative ways to engage your community. Lately, the rise of Pinterest, a social content curation platform, has been making headlines. As [...]

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7 Reasons Why Pinterest Isn’t Yet Ready for Tech Brands

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Sivan Cohen & Ben Lang, community managers at Conduit & Wibiya.
Managing a tech brand means you always need to be on the lookout for innovative and creative ways to engage your community. Lately, the rise of Pinterest, a social content curation platform, has been making headlines. As [...]

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How Google+ Can Win: Make Publishing Universal

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

Editor’s Note: Bindu Reddy is the CEO of MyLikes and was formerly Group Product Manager at Google. She was the first product manager for the project that evolved to become Google+. Her Google+ profile can be found here.
Larry Page recently announced that he is quite thrilled with Google+’s explosive growth — with 90 million registered [...]

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(Founder Stories) Jeff Clavier: On Getting Your Product In Front Of A VC (And Keeping It There)

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

Because every VC’s inbox is overflowing with pitches, and because VC’s don’t take meetings with just anyone, SoftTech VC’s Jeff Clavier, (who just raised $55 million for his third fund) offers advice to founders who hope to cut through the clutter, schedule a meeting, and score some financing from prominent investors.
In his final Founder Stories [...]

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Kindle Sales Growing Faster Than The Nook’s

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

Barnes & Noble may be challenging Amazon’s dominance of the e-book world, but Kindle sales are still growing faster than the Nook’s — at least if you connect the dots between some of the numbers included in a recently-published article by The New York Times.
The article doesn’t hide the fact that Amazon has the vast [...]

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Motorola Droid Razr Maxx Review: 4G LTE With Solid Battery Life Just Got Real

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

Short Version
The Droid Razr Maxx by Motorola is a very special phone. You see, I had a bit of a thing for the Droid Razr when it first came out, but it wasn’t quite perfect. It felt a bit light, and I had trouble holding it in my hand since it was so big and [...]

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Unofficial "Look Up in 1Password" bookmarklet for iOS 5

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

1Password is one of my most-used iOS apps, since I need it to log in to any site which requires a password.
Since the introduction of 1Password on iOS, Agile has provided a bookmarklet which will open 1Password and then search for the current domain. That helps the fact that 1Password can’t be fully [...]

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Steve Jobs kept letter from Bill Gates on his nightstand

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

Bill Gates’s Microsoft was a long time Apple rival, as well as a respected competitor; the two companies also collaborated many times, including Microsoft’s role as one of the original Macintosh third-party developers.
The Telegraph reports that a letter to Steve Jobs from Gates was kept on Jobs’s nightstand during the Apple co-founder’s final [...]

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Sanho previews CloudFTP at Macworld | iWorld 2012

January 30th 2012 | Posted by admin

Sanho had its Kickstarter-funded CloudFTP at Macworld | iWorld 2012 this year, and the project has generated a lot of excitement.
Sanho’s Daniel Chin originally sought $100,000 in funding through Kickstarter, but wound up with more than 2,700 backers and more than $262,000 by the time the pledge drive ended three weeks ago.
CloudFTP [...]

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