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Google unleashed the first round of invites to Google Wave today to around 100,000 people and naturally being a web geek I signed up early and got into the “preview” (which seems synonymous with “beta”) Below is a great video example explaining Wave The general idea behind Wave is that it was invented to answer [...]

To determine who your customers are you have to frame how and what current problems exist for a set of customers or companies. Many people however do not take this research to the next level by following the pain down or up the food chain to the point of origin down to the people it [...]

No startup wants to end up in the deadpool and failing gracefully does not necessarily mean cleaning up the mess when things go wrong. Instead, there are ways to fail in the beginning that can lead to success in the future of a small company. Failing gracefully means recognizing that when your app first launches [...]

3 years and 1 day ago I wrote a introductory post about RSS. Since that time a lot has happened with RSS, but I keep referring back to that post. In fact, it became a presentation I did a few times both within my last company (to teach everyone about using a feed reader and [...]

Last week my friend Spencer Fry from Carbonmade showed me a cool activity he participates in about once a month. His company sends out a message to its users inviting them into a Drop.io chatroom to discuss Carbonmade which is an online design portfolio company, and talk to the founders. More importantly, users get a [...]

On October 2nd 2009 I will be participating in an event called The Feast Kitchen where startups will get to present their ideas for social good. These are companies (some non-profit some for profit) trying to make the world a better place. I have two tickets to give away and invite anyone interested in attending [...]

I have been compiling a growing list of analogies (some cliché) I hear in my world either from VC’s, Entrepreneurs, Lawyers, or anyone else in the startup ecosystem. There is no rhyme or reason to the order of these but I think they are worth sharing. I will provide attribution only if I get permission. [...]

As promised I wanted to review my experience reading Sway via digital device. Along with being a great book, Sway was easy to read via digital screen. I think this experience has influenced me to try to read more without a physical copy of a book – perhaps even with an eReader soon. Not a [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I am going to take the weekend to read some books in digital formats. Mainly on the iPhone, but I feel like a digital screen is a big change from the printed book. I have never read a book in digital format, although I probably have read parts of [...]

Understanding when your company or brand is being talked about is important. Understanding whether or not your company or brand is being talked about positively or negatively may be more important. In the last few years the research behind sentiment analysis has ranged from thumbs up\thumbs down and emoticon faces to more advanced methods. A [...]