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Is Gary the Cramer of Wine, or is Cramer the Vaynerchuk of Stocks?
I’ll take the latter, and it sounds like Cramer will too:

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This is just another great example of how my life seems to parallel that of Derek Zoolander. (pop-culture reference here)
I just read Catherine Taylor’s worriment that niche social networks will end up in that classic advertising hard-spot between scale and target.
Her concern: commoditized ad inventory does poorly in niche communities and ignore the value of a niche, [...]

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Today is GaryVee-Day — the day his book officially comes out. This post is to be your guide to news, media and events surrounding his book’s release.
Events:
Last night, we celebrated the book release along with Gary’s appearance on Conan, at bounce. Here’s the Conan footage and a video from the event.

Today he signs his book [...]

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I’ve recently taken notes on the top 5 things in my life which I believe are indicators of what the future looks like:

Twinkle
AppleTV
Silicon Alley Insider
Meetup / The Point / CarrotMob
DonorsChoose & Kiva

Twinkle
No need to put the iPhone or Twitter on my list, because the Twinkle application (jailbroken phones only, for now) combines both of these [...]

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Hat tip to Darren for this amazing video about social networks and YOUR LIFE!

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Photo Credit: Scott Gould
Brian Litvak, Biz Dev & Marketing guru at Sportsvite, wrote an interesting post the other day, basically claiming that the biggest lessons from the Internet were taught and learned a decade ago, when he entered college. Taught to and learned by him, that is.
Here’s his take:
If we could turn back the clock [...]

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Joe Weisenthal reported yesterday that IAC is launching a new how-to video site called Life333.
One of the first questions he and others ask is, “Do we really need another how-to video site?”
My take is: yes… a few thousands more.
Part of our bet with BricaBox is that folks will want to create thousands of how-to sites, [...]

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If you’d like to continue the conversation about App Engine, please check out the re-post of my article on Silicon Alley Insider (Peter edited it down and it’s much more readable).
Also, I wanted to point out this article by David Recordon, who pointed out the connection between App Engine and Facebook’s Platform via Twitter from [...]

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“Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as web applications which are pieced together.”
- Eric Schmidt
In the wake of Google’s AppEngine announcement, I want to remind you of this video I’ve posted before: Eric Schmidt talking about Google’s vision for the Web 3.0 computing era.

To me, AppEngine seems like the most logical evolution of Google Gadgets! [...]

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Everyone should check out URLrURL — an awesome new small URL service. Some buddies of mine in NYC made it. They developed a cool way of tracking memes through Twitter.
Please Digg it here!

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