Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. But have no doubt the other 3 senses will arrive on the web.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

And social media frequently makes news, including when it accelerated the uprising in Egypt this year. But back in 2005, social media was not as prominent as it is today, and it took a tsunami for social media to earn its status as an equal player in news-gathering. Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And while DataSift is a provider of multiple real-time data feeds, I would like to be clear that Twitter is by far the most important and dominant of the real-time publicly available data that exists on the Internet today, which is why today’s bet for me is on the Twitter ecosystem. Not so on Twitter. Twitter is inherently viral.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0,

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