The Next Generation of the Internet, Part Two

June 9, 2009

Five more companies you may want to know about from Launch Silicon Valley. The general takeaway from this is the preponderance of peer-to-peer services as a way of lowering the cost of streaming content, and the general movement to the cloud. Update: Here’s the second set of companies. CellWand isn’t really next generation of Internet; […]

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Jumping to Conclusions: The Next Generation Internet

June 9, 2009

For many reasons, I’m interested in the next generation Internet. This morning, I’m at Launch SIlicon Valley, watching ten companies in this space present their concepts. I haven’t finished listening, but I have already jumped to my conclusion. According to these presenters (who were quite good, by the way), the next generation of the internet […]

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Ten Things You Need to Know About Banks and Credit Card Companies

June 4, 2009

Credit cards have developed into very complicated financial products. As a result, even if they printed the disclosure in 18 point type, you wouldn’t know what was going to hit you from behind. I have been trying to get out of debt recently, so I’ve been studying the issue. I am now doubling my dose […]

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MC Hammer Talks Twitter

May 31, 2009

OK, I’m a groupie. I fell in love with @mchammer at the break at #twtrcon. He was standing in the hall in a beanie and a tshirt talking about music and social media. I overheard him say that he was studying social media because it was useful in music, because music is an inherently grass […]

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WordPress's Matt Mullenweg at WordcampSF

May 30, 2009

Image byMatt Mullenweg, ma.tt/about via CrunchBase WordPress is now one of the highest skills in demand! Large portions of the web are being built on a system that is completely open source WordPress was born on a blog- a b2 blog Early versions focused on ease of installation B2 was his first experience with blogging […]

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Optimizing Your WordPress Blog for Google

May 30, 2009

Image via CrunchBase Live blogging Matt Cutts‘ excellent presentation. WordPress solves 90% of SEO optimization Flash cannot be crawled–don’t use it Cutts only uses these plug-ins: Akismet Feedburner Cookies for Comments Enforce www. preference WP Supercache Google crawls roughly in decreasing order of page rank Page Rank is named for Larry Page Number of people […]

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Don't Underestimate the Power of Twitter

May 29, 2009

This is a sad story, but it is also a story of communities and resiliency. Earlier this week, I got a call in Half Moon Bay from my friend LonSafko, author of The Social Media Bible. It was a voicemail that said “Please call me back. I can’t leave a message.” Last year, at almost […]

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Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction

May 28, 2009

Sramana Mitra’s Bootstrapping: Weapon of Mass Reconstruction is a book for our time, because it’s something real out of Silicon Valley. No more stories about legendary VC fundings or startup-to-IPO in six months. In this, the second volume of Entrepreneurs Journeys, her focus is on doing more with less, in tune with the times. The […]

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It Takes a Village to Move a Blog

May 24, 2009

I decided I was going to shamelessly imitate my buddy Scoble and move my blog to WordPress.org from WordPress.com. This involved calling in favors from EVERY friend I have ever had, especially Chuck Reynolds, Darin Wayrynin and Brent Spore. I’m so grateful to all of them for their help that I tested every link here […]

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Bent Britain

May 22, 2009

I have a friend in the U.K. who reads my blog, and who sent me a favorite poem from the recent British poetry season. Yes, we may have football season and basketball season, but the Brits apparently have a poetry season. So the BBC picked this poem as a favorite from this season: Bent Britain […]

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