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Integrity, clarity and responsibility – Web 2.0 NY Keynote
Next on the Web 2.0 keynote speaker list was Maria Thomas of www.etsy.com with her talk The DIY Guide to Growing a Company . If never heard of Etsy before – Your place to buy & sell all things handmade, interesting site.
Read moreWhat if software was a physical object – NY Web 2.0 Third Keynote
Some points of reference from the next Web 2.0 keynote by Jason Fried of 37 Signals Software business is a great place to be. You can build anything you want. All you really have to it type, it’s not easy to do, it’s just not that hard to do.
Read moreTechnology changes, humans don’t. – Web 2.0 NY Second keynote
I needed a rest from my opening keynote review NY Tech 1995-2008. Opening Web 2.0 Expo NY Keynote but a few siginificant points from The Death of the Grand Gesture by Deb Schultz.
Read moreNY Tech 1995-2008. Opening Web 2.0 Expo NY Keynote
Web 2.0 Expo NY keynotes are happening today. Technology in use included CrowdVine which I’d not heard of, and plenty of Twitter feeds such as w2e_NY08 . The opening keynote was Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures with his presentation New York’s Web Industry From 1995 to 2008: From Nascent to Ascendent .
Read moreWeb 2.0 in NY
I will be attending next week’s Web 2.0 Expo 2008 in New York. Garys Guide has a schedule of the key events and off site associated event parties. It will be a bit of a change from the typical MySQL Conferences and recent OSCON Conference I have attended this year.
Read moreDomain name trends
It started with del.icio.us/ (which now ironically redirects to http://delicious.com ), and now it’s becoming more the trend to create a domain name with the extension included for effect. With unique .
Read moreWhat is Google’s direction?
Tonight over discussion was Android and what is Google’s ultimate direction. Have they lost their way, or are they just planning to explode with so many new things that will revolutionize what and how we do things.
Read moreWebsites in review – Week 1
I often come across new websites, quite often by accident, or by indirection in links from looking at other details. The Internet is an amazing place, and one could spend all day reading such a variety information and only touch on just a few specific topics.
Read moreMonetization through Online Advertising
Next week I will be the panel moderator for September 2008 Entrepreneurs Forum on “Monetization through Online Advertising” organized by Ultra Light Startups™ . A slightly different approach to my regular speaking schedule, it will be good to observe and interact with our speakers.
Read moreVirtualBox, compiling Part 2
So I managed to find all dependencies after some trial and error for compiling VirtualBox 1.6.4 under Ubuntu 8.0.4, then finding the Linux build instructions to confirm. It was not successful however in building, throwing the following error:
Read moreProject Darkstar
It may sound like either a astronomical research project or a Star Wars spin- off, but Project Darkstar is an open source infrastructure from Sun Microsystems that states “simplify the development and operation of massively scalable online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications.
Read moreInteresting site of the day
TwitHire – For those employers that both have Twitter accounts and time to advertise a job in 140 characters or less. There should be a website that is devoted to everything based on Twitter.
Read moreFinding, exposing and referencing good material
I came across www.problogger.net by accident. Like many sites and information these days, you simply don’t find via search engines because your normally searching for something specific. I did find it via several levels of hyperlinks.
Read moreUltra light startups NY meeting
I attended the Ultra light startup’s meeting last night for the first time. I found it most productive for the 2 hours of time to see a different approach talking about startups, to see a variety of approaches, concepts, ideas, ventures all at various stages and generally people with different and interesting ideas and goal.
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