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Top 5 Tips For Success in a Crowded Niche
via Skelliewag.org by skellie on January 22, 2008
Photo by a4gpaUnless you’re blogging about Mexican Walking Fish (who’ve been trained to fight in the Greco-Roman Wrestling style) you can bet that your niche is pretty crowded. If you
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Mint Chooses Flex
via James Ward - RIA Cowboy by James Ward on January 21, 2008
One of the first Flex applications I built was a Flex front-end for a web based personal budgeting application called “WeBudget”. I had originally built WeBudget as a way to track how much my wife was spending on clothing. The only problem was that this required my wife to actually enter her receipts into WeBudget. I tried to make it easy by providing a WAP interface but that didn’t re
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Is 3i pulling out of early stage tech startups?
via TechCrunch UK by Mike Butcher on January 21, 2008
What’s going on at major venture capital firm 3i? Several whispers are reaching me that the VC group is planning to pull out of backing early stage Web ventures. A source who ought to know tells me they’ve heard such talk “from folk within 3i. At the end of ’07 they were trying to figure out where the VC team’s leadership would fit in the rest of the organisation, etc but I believe an
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More Pressure on Yahoo From Wall St.
via John Battelle's Searchblog by (author unknown) on January 20, 2008
Yahoo's Ripe for Shake-Up from the WSJ's "Breaking Views" column is quite a read. It argues that the sums of Yahoo's parts, in particular its holdings in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba, which combine for more than a third of Yahoo's overall market cap, should be spun off, as should its search business (I've argued
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No Bubble Here: VCs Invest $29.41B
via GigaOM by Stacey Higginbotham on January 19, 2008
Slow and steady wins the race. Given the VC industry’s penchant for hockey-stick growth charts, it’s far from their slogan, but when it comes to a slow annual growth in funding data, it’s a welcome sign. The PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree
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iPhone as photo gallery
via Scripting News by (author unknown) on January 22, 2008
Kevin Tofel explains how to use an iPhone as a portable handheld photo gallery using the beautiful AP wire photos and FlickrFan. I did a Qik video demo using my Nokia N95. Lots of computers involved, the quality ain't great but the idea is pretty neat.
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Tiny Bluetooth Adapter from Brando
via Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks by xujiren on January 22, 2008
From Gizmodo, yet another tiny bluetooth adapter -Brando's miniature $24 Bluetooth adapter works with Windows ME, 2000, XP and Vista,
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Europe 2.0: European tech investing “coming of age,” as events hard-wire the network
via TechCrunch by Mike Butcher on January 23, 2008
It’s mildly diverting when some people, like Business Week reporters, say that Europe is still a slow place for technology startups, then pat us on the head and tell us that every day, in every way, we’re getting better and better. But it’s more interesting when people who really are at the heart of the European business pull all the threads together and come up with some cogent...
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Silverlight 1.0 going out as an optional Windows update today
via The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart on January 22, 2008
According to Mary Jo Foley yesterday, Microsoft is providing Silverlight 1.0 as an optional Windows update starting today. It isn’t one of the required updates that automatically gets installed for most users, so they’ll have to manually select it but it will show up on the list. Also as Mary Jo notes, the updates will now be part of the batch that IT staff have discretion to install in their...
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Picnik Releases Public API - Picnik in a Box
via RIApedia by mikepotter on January 22, 2008
Picnik took another step forward to cementing their lead in the online photo editing market with the release of their API - Picnik in a Box. As the Picnik team puts it:"Picnik In A Box presents the complete Picnik UI right on top of your existing website. This is known as a "lightbox" technique and is becoming pretty common among advanced web applications. Although it takes a little more work...
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