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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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Add this one to WTFisTwitter.com:
Twitter is the PayPal of Social Capital

PayPal revolutionized financial transactions on the web, and I think Twitter is doing the same thing, but with transactions of social capital.
Thoughts?

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Things everyone should consider while designing a website:

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Looks like some users, including me, got a Google Docs upgrade today.
The look/feel is much more like a desktop app, which makes sense.
Check out this screenshot (click to make bigger)!

By the way, I’ll also note that Google Docs was a hot topic of conversation at dinner last night. My dad — a forward trending businessman [...]

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NO MORE INVITES!

Folks,
DropBox is blowing me away. Rarely do I find an app I must tell you about. Even more rarely do I find an app which I can tell you has done everything right.
Seriously, if any service wants to go into this space, they just need to copy what DropBox has done. There may [...]

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Photo: Jason Calacanis’ black SUV escort. Julia Allison and David Karp deciding where we’ll go next.
Last night, it seems as though I was the only person who got any work done in Silicon Alley.
No, it’s not that I wasn’t out enjoying the much reported festivities of Jason Calacanis being in town — I was there [...]

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