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Networked Insights: A peek at social-media analytics
via Webware.com by Caroline McCarthy on March 25, 2008
A look at Networked Insights' data 'dashboard' for one of its clients, liquor conglomerate Diageo.(Credit: Networked Insights)Earlier this week I spoke with representatives from Networked Insights, a Madison, Wisc., company that tracks social network data and works it into analytics and "customer intelligence" for clients. It's a niche that might raise a few eyebrows for its...
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The Rudeness Factor
via The Post Money Value by Rick Segal on March 23, 2008
Jason has a post up at the Ask The VC entitled "Are Venture Capitalist incompetent or just inconsiderate?"From Frank Ronchetti (a CFO in a start-up)"Are VCs incompetent or just inconsiderate? Not all venture capitalists mind you, just the ones who solicit your proposal, read your executive summary, or even meet with you, and then you never hear another word from them. What’s up with...
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Incredible "Big Dog" robot from Boston Dynamics
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on March 16, 2008
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Fuck Grapefruit
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on February 24, 2008
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Surviving the Storm
via Red Canary by Jeff Fedor, Terry Goertz on March 11, 2008
This is part two of Jeff and Terry’s continuing series on Amazon Web Services. Part 1, “Scaling with Clouds” can be found hereBig press release coming out? You are expecting internet traffic volumes to double. Are you ready? If you have deployed with Amazon EC2 you are.Until AWS came along, you’d be frantically procuring hardware, additional rack space, recruiting on-call staff and...
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MaRS Experience!Tech 2008 Conference
via Red Canary by Anne Pezzack on March 16, 2008
“Experience!Tech 2008 brings you the plenary sessions and keynote via live broadcast from IDC’s annual Directions Conference in Boston combined with MaRS Master Classes in Toronto. Together, this event highlights the important technology advances, emerging business models and technology leaders who are shaping today’s competitive markets. This exciting event will focus on the market trends...
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Outsourced Product Management?
via The Product Management View by Peter Ganza on March 16, 2008
... a few other Product Managers at the time balked at the thought of storing our intellectual property on an on-demand CRM application. Seems the company was trying to help us by providing some tools to store requirements type information.Fast-forward to 2005, and I’m suddenly working at Ryma telling the world all PM’s should be using on-demand tools to help organize their lives and gain ...
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News media needs to have consumers pay
via Venture Chronicles by Jeff on March 16, 2008
There’s nothing new here, just further acknowledgement that the business of journalism is what is troubled, not journalism itself.Mainstream media as a whole, the report found, isn’t losing its audience. It just doesn’t know how to get its new online customers - or anyone else who is reading what they’re producing through online aggregators - to pay. The top 10 online news sites in 2007...
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Eight Years Later, Vivisimo Raises $4 Million For Enterprise Search.
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on March 16, 2008
From the Why-Even-Bother Department: Enterprise search search company Vivisimo raised its first venture capital today—$4 million from North Atlantic Capital—after eight years in existence. Vivisimo is a spin-off from Carnegie Mellon and a pioneer in applying clustering technology to search. You can see its technology in action at Clusty, but that is really just a demo for its enterprise...
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Tiny projects keep it new
via Signal vs. Noise by Jason on March 11, 2008
When do we do our best work? When we’re excited about something. Excitement breeds motivation. We do our best work when we’re motivated. A great way to stay motivated is to work on something new. No one likes being stuck on a project that never seems to end.The typical projectThe typical project starts out great but then our motivation and interest wanes as time goes on. It’s natural....
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