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Three Reasons To Use Disqus
via A VC by Fred on May 10, 2008
First, I'd like to be perfectly clear that our firm, Union Square Ventures, is an investor in Disqus. So I am clearly biased about what I am about to say. Second, I'd like to point out that the reason we made the investment is largely based on my experience as a Disqus user for the past 10 months and the result it has had on my blog/community. Sometimes seeing is believing and it...
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Taking @dearlazyweb Down
via benjamingolub.com by Benjamin Golub on May 10, 2008
I’m taking my Twitter bot app @dearlazyweb down. I really want to focus on RSSmeme and @dearlazyweb just never took off. If you came here trying to visit Dear Lazy then please check out my other project: RSSmeme.
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The old link love she ain’t what she used to be.
via Colin Walker by Colin on May 10, 2008
Before having my say on this weeks bitchmeme I thought I would wait for the situation to calm down and look back on one of the issues raised - that of where we should be linking to.As is often the case when emotions are running high the situation can rapidly spiral out of control which is what seemed to happen yesterday. Points are made and in the effort to strike while the iron is hot things may...
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Facebook To Lift 5,000 Friends Limit
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 09, 2008
Facebook will soon remove a limitation that restricts users to no more than 5,000 friend connections, someone close to the company told us this week.There are stories around why the limitation exists at all. The official reason is that Facebook wants to make sure that people only add “real” friends to their account, and the restriction is on the high end of the number of friends that any one...
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Tips For Dealing With Information Overload
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on May 09, 2008
I sent a couple of people the following question: “What are your top tips for dealing with information overflow?” Here are some of their answers (with formatting partly adjusted, omissions within quotes indicated with dots). Please add your own tips and approaches in the comments.Niniane Wang, Google: «I like the time-honored tradition of responding to emails or archiving them as soon as I...
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Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”
via mathewingram.com|work by Mathew on May 09, 2008
Some of you may have seen this already, since it has been passed around on Twitter, but I just had to point to Rick Segal’s hilarious blog post about a startup that did everything right in its business plan — right up until it sent the document without clicking the “accept changes” menu item in Word. So when Rick (who is a VC with J.L. Albright in Toronto) looked at the impressive...
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Socialmedian offers a collaborative way to sort through the news
via VentureBeat by Anthony Ha on May 09, 2008
As more and more news floods the Internet, more and more companies are releasing products to help you sift through that flood. One of the latest is socialmedian, a site that uses social networking tools to help users find the articles that are most interesting and relevant to them. The idea, says chief executive Jason Goldberg, is that people with common interests are better at filtering the news...
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Forget the Twitpitch; How About Twitgotiations?
via Profy.Com by Cyndy Aleo-Carreira on May 10, 2008
Sometimes just watching Twitter on a Friday afternoon, you'll see one more way people are using the service to facilitate their everyday activities. Some people use Twitter for conversation, some for pitches, some for resume solicitation, and others for, well, Twitgotiating.After Nicholas Tolson of Erickson Barnett sent a Tweet about his experience with Radian6, he got several new followers,...
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Xobni Acquires IP From Failed Web 1.0 Startup FireDrop
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 07, 2008
This is an interesting story in light of the discussion yesterday about the fate of the intellectual property of failed startups. Email startup Xobni, which recently turned down a $20 million acquisition offer from Microsoft, says they have acquired the key patents around a product called Zaplets which originally launched in 2000.Zaplets was an email product that put synchronized applications...
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This week’s bitchmeme has relocated to FriendFeed
via WinExtra by Steven Hodson on May 09, 2008
We all know how come Friday afternoon we look to Techmeme for the hot button topic that may just prove to be the current week’s bitchmeme that will carry us over a potentially boring weekend of non-news. This weekend though it appears that Techmeme has lost out to FriendFeed as being the source of a potential bitchmeme candidate.Just a bit of a back story so you can get your game card caught...
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