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Over time, everything finds its place; and on the Web, this law is no different. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
I made this argument a few years ago regarding organization of offline activity and webservices in a post called “Scatter Mob.” This idea actually came out of a comment I wrote on Jeremy Wagstaff’s blog [...]

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The Interwebs has officially launched!
While we put together a bunch of interviews at SXSW, this episode marks the real launch of a full show.
In it: a quick segment dedicated to the headlines, a VC interview, a mobile trends segment, and “Vital Signs” - a segment about the business of making a web show!
Full summary here:
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Yesterday, Silicon Alley Insider wrote that Obama’s pick to head the Justice Department’s antitrust unit is decidedly and publicly anti-Google.
Now, as Henry Blodget put it, this in no way means a certain antitrust movement against Big Rainbow (Google):
Hard to view this as anything but negative for Google.  A strident government attack on the company seems [...]

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I’m a bit biased here (I used to consult with NewsHour through my work with National Public Media) — and I’ll write more about effectively using Twitter in forthcoming blog posts — but I wanted to point people to this recent tweet by @NewsHour.
Most media organizations do two things wrong on Twitter.
They use their Twitter [...]

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Silicon Alley Insider recently issued a challenge:
Despite strong traffic and passionate users, Digg’s revenues blow. During the first three quarters of 2008, Digg saw about $6.4 million on 30 million monthly uniques and lost $2 million. Yuck.
Today we’re launching the Fix Digg’s Miserable Business Contest.
The winning submission will ideally include steps to implement the plan, [...]

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Avner Ronen, CEO and Founder of Boxee, just posted an interesting offer on the Boxee Blog:
we have two locations at CES this year, and 4 of us are going to the show. but we could use some help and thought it may be best to have two users come with us to the show and [...]

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Needless to say, but TechWagCrunch just doen’t get it.
Today, my friend Darren Herman announced the launch of the “Herman blackbook” New Platforms Fund, a new fund for people developing applications on top of platforms like Twitter, the iPhone and Boxee.
As Darren decribes it, “New Platforms Fund investments will range from $1-3,000 each,” which is something [...]

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Here’s a 2009 predictions post like no other.
Charlie O’Donnell asked a few of his colleagues, including yours truly, to send him 7-second predictions for ‘09.
I’ll write more on this later, but mine was “2009 will be the year of location-based everything” — a theme you’ll see a lot of from me, and the theme of [...]

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Last night, I “won” (results) Organizer responsibilities of the NY Tech Meetup, taking the reins from Scott Heiferman and Dawn Barber in running the monthly Meetup of 7,500 members.
The election for the role was about doing more than just meeting once a month and was about building, in Scott’s words, a real “21st Century organization.”
My [...]

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Over the summer, I posted a well distributed article called “How Twitter Will be Worth $1.5 Billion by Next Year.” Go read it.
I outlined the schema where one would send money to friends via Twitter using the format “p innonate $5″ much like people “d” for a direct message.
Today, my friends at TipJoy realized this [...]

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