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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools. You can target multiple mobile platforms at once with tools like BuildAnApp , or you can look into the geolocation angle with a tool such as Socialight or Shout’Em.

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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

Social media. Social networking. Social games. Despite the name, the Bing Fund doesn’t require its companies to work with the Bing search engine or the technologies associated with Bing, including speech recognition, image processing, video, local/geo/map technologies, and so forth. Whats Hot Menu.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! Passed location to ad networks and saw more effective ad rev, but users were pissed as to why location was needed to search recipes. Congratulations to them. Freemium works very well for games.

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What Most Small Businesses Are Doing Wrong on Social Media (And 5 Tips For Success)

Duct Tape Marketing

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. Dave Kerpen is the CEO of Likeable , a social media agency that has worked with more than 200 leading brands, including Verizon and Neutrogena. This post is brought to you from Dave Kerpen.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I chatted with them shortly before the pitching started and found out that they are from Portland, Oregon, yay, my home state! One recipe app passed location to ad networks and saw more effective ad rev, but users were pissed as to why location was needed to search recipes. Congratulations to them.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter: Well, fortunately I know how to pronounce his name because I felt and that was some of his incubator work but Joe is a local entrepreneurial champion here in Oregon. Here in Oregon, we’ve got some in Portland that are really great and then this article talks about some here in Eugene, Oregon which are doing well but fairly new.

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The Rise of the Storytellers

Duct Tape Marketing

I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. Chapman is a leader in the online and social media marketing space. Pick any social network you like. They are doing searches for everything from peaches to PCs.

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