The great interweb is in an almighty furore over Instagram's changes in terms and conditions (thank you NY Times ) which allow them to fully monetize new user content and which they tried to pass off a way to fight content spam. From social profiling to content appropriation. No wonder the community is erupting. facebook : we own all ur loginz. MORE >>

These four simple rules will help ensure that your audience sits up and pays attention. It takes an audience about 15 seconds (at most) to decide whether your presentation is worth their attention. Fritter away those fifteen seconds and your audience will either mentally check out or pull out their phones to start texting. Why should they bother? MORE >>

Amazon is an unusual company. It focuses on the long-term (typically 10 to 20 years) instead of short term (typically quarterly earnings). For example, in talking about the Kindle, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO, offers the following insight: Go back in time when we started working on Kindle almost seven years ago. We are stubborn on vision. MORE >>

In the Startup Communities , I talk extensively about leaders and feeders. assert than  anyone in the startup community should be able to start / create / do anything that is helpful to the startup community. They don’t have to ask permission – there is no VP Activities in a startup community. We would like to fix this issue. MORE >>

Singapore-based early-stage technology seed fund Golden Gate Ventures has announced investments into cloud-based inventory and sales management SaaS solutions provider TradeGecko , online grocer RedMart and mobile payment provider Coda Payments. This marks Golden Gate Ventures first investments since its founding in February this year. MORE >>