“Is someone you work with taking Provigil to give them an extra competitive edge? I’ ve spoken with one executive who says he uses it regularly to work twenty hour days, and the buzz lately is that it’ s the entrepreneur’ s drug of choice around Silicon Valley. Over the last week two separate entrepreneurs have mentioned it [...]”
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“A lot of people in technology, especially in startups, don’ t understand marketing. Melanie Notkin clearly does. Her startup, SavvyAuntie, is not some super-high-tech website, it’ s actually quite simple. But the marketing is genius. Women account for 80% of the economy. Mothers spend about $1.7 trillion dollars on consumer products each year. [...]”
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“Well this is a fine kettle of fish. iPhone activations have essentially gone down and everyone - from folks updating their old phones to new 3G activators - are stuck with bricks until traffic dies off. Reader Brent reports: Hey Just a heads up my iPhone, and looking at their forums, everyone else’ s iPhones are bricks because [...]”
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“1938 Media’ s distribution deal with Verizon, announced just a week ago, is history. Yesterday a group of civil rights activists protested the deal and threatened to boycott Verizon. The reason? A 2007 video that Feldman created called TechNigga that the groups say is racist. The video was not included on Verizon, and television reports that Verizon [...]”
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“Well, this sucks for Second Life. Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today. Worlds can be embedded int web pages, although only [...]”
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“Twitter is still far larger than its much younger competitor Friendfeed in aggregate terms. But an interesting trend is developing - many longtime Twitter users are noticing that the number of followers they have on Friendfeed is growing far more rapidly than on Twitter. And the conversations at Friendfeed are better, too. I joined Twitter when [...]”
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“Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ ll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems - which had the best forwarding and group messaging, which allowed for archiving, [...]”
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“Just because the Internet makes it possible to offer a near-infinite inventory of goods for sale does not mean that consumers will start wanting more obscure items in any great numbers. That is the conclusion Harvard Business School associate professor Anita Elberse comes to in a recent article in the Harvard Business Review that [...]”
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“The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle. Louis L. Stanton, the senior judge on the United [...]”
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“In this post, guest author Ryan Carson goes through some of the lessons learned from building a Web app in four days. Carson is the co-founder of Carsonified, a web shop in Bath, UK. They’ ve built four web apps, created ThinkVitamin.com and run events like Future of Web Apps. If you’ re bored you can [...]”
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