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NY Tech Meetup 070108

Eric Friedman

I went to the July 1st NY Tech Meetup last week and got a chance to see some interesting new companies present. They are each linked below with a brief description: Transclick.net. Translate instant messages instantly. Translate jargon and acronyms too. Iyear.us. Independence year – 21st century town hall meetings. Pluribo.com. Opinion summary engine – currently working on Amazon.

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Leave your ego at the door

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Things I Like Lately

aweissman.com

skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jul 8, 2008. Things I Like Lately. Tipjoy AdNectar Seedcamp Bit. ly Tinydb (and Quickerly built on top of it) Structuring unstructured data. Tags: things. at 11:38 AM. Things I Like Lately. Tipjoy AdNectar Seedcamp Bit. ly Tinydb (and Quickerly built on top of it) Structuring unstructured data. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Zoomii.com – Ultimate Amazon.com Mashup

Eric Friedman

I just checked out Zoomii.com which is an online bookstore that lets your browse bookshelves filled with books from Amazon.com by section as if you were in a bookstore. I have found that the main benefit to this method is that you can easily see books similar to the one you are browsing for and others nearby. Amazon has this feature in its “recommended” section, but somehow browsing in a natural bookshelf manner seems more appropriate.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Ask.com outsources maps to Microsoft Virtual Earth

Eric Friedman

Ask.com will now have outsourced maps using the Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps. I see this as an interested move for Ask because of how widespread mapping has become as a play for Google, Microsoft, and even Yahoo. Map integration has led to some interesting and innovative business development deals for each company. We will see what happens with Ask.com throughout the rest of 2008.

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Leave your ego at the door | Seth Levine

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