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Who knew?
Scanning through my Sunday RSS feeds, I came across this article published in PaidContnent.
In it, the PC founder and editor Rafat Ali revealed something this long-time reader never knew:
Doug Anmuth, the Lehman Brothers analyst, makes a case for online episodic video in his weekly “Internet Inside” thinkpiece, and yes, he’s an optimist on this [...]

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Here are the apps I “can’t live without” as a start-up entrepreneur. These things are open everyday on my computer (a MacBook) and are where nearly all of my business gets done:

Google Docs (best way to collaborate and get feedback on financial projections, executive summaries, job listings, etc.)
Basecamp (if my development team loves it, I [...]

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You heard it here first: As of yesterday, VentBox, our company’s first product, has been laid to rest. (But don’t put it in the deadpool, TechCrunch! It’s just coming back on the new platform!)
VentBox was just 7 months out of the gate publicly, but such is the nature of innovation: While VentBox served one purpose, [...]

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In case you missed the news… it was announced yesterday that New York-based NPB (I’ve been the Technology Strategist since February) was bought by NPR and WGBH. It’s a very exciting time for the organization and I think the result will be good for all parties — really.
Here’s a portion of the press release – [...]

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Today is a fun day at National Public Broadcasting (where I’ve been the in-house Technology Strategist since February of this year). We turn 10!
I have to say, it’s been a real treat to have been working for a mature company, so heavily invested in technology and growing because of it (just a few weeks ago [...]

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This week, the Silicon Alley Insider started monetizing their somewhat growing traffic with Google AdSense contextual ads in both its side columns as well inline with text and in the break between its posts and the comment section of individual post pages. (I say “somewhat growing” because this graph shows a bit of a roller-coaster [...]

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I just love this post on the Blip.tv blog. That’s called transparency and customer service (my underline below).
The blip site is currently unavailable to some users due to what appears to be a database issue. We’re working hard on the problem right now, and will have additional updates ASAP.
UPDATE 5 minutes later: We’re back. [...]

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The most valuable online social network I belong to doesn’t have profile pages, doesn’t stream music, doesn’t have an application development platform and has no pre-determined “friending” mechanism.
This social network isn’t SEO optimized, has a Consensus Master instead of a Web Master, organizes some of the most innovative industry events, gives back more information than [...]

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With nothing but business plan and fund-raising prep on my mind for the past couple weeks, I really enjoyed this article in Inc. Magazine:
You Know What Your Company Does. Can You Explain It in 30 Seconds?
With all honesty, it’s hard to strike a balance sometimes between believing that your product is revolutionary and amazing and [...]

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It wasn’t a secret that I went to last night’s Facebook Hackathon @ Union Square Ventures as a skeptic and a cynic toward the Facebook Platform.
And as always happens to skeptics and cynics when they learn more about a phenomenon, I definitely gained some clarity on the issue of developing applications on the Facebook Platform. [...]

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