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Just a Hunch: TechCrunch’s Twitter Followers Are Entrepreneurial, Gadget-Loving Optimists

The problem with having more than a million followers on Twitter, or even more than 1,000, is that you don’t really know who they are. But Hunch thinks it knows a lot about the followers of at least popular Twitter users. It is now pulling together detailed psychographic profiles of those followers with [...]

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Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Gist Acquires Startup Weekend App ‘Learn That Name’

Every few weeks (and sometimes even more often than that), dozens of techies gather together for regional Startup Weekends —  fast-paced code writing frenzies where entrepreneurs and developers conceive of and build a new application in less than 60 hours (and lose quite a bit of sleep in the process). Many of the apps [...]

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Thu, March 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Wordle In Trademark Trouble, Seeks Legal Advice

I have much love for Wordle. I’ve used the text cloud generator dozens of time for use in presentations, TechCrunch posts and random stuff ever since I discovered the tool.
But as of yesterday, the application is no longer available, and the website only displays the message copied above. In a notice and a blog post, [...]

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Sun, February 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Competition! Mad Lib your favourite site’s sign up page for fame, shampoo and other prizes

Yesterday, Luke Wroblewski – Chief design architect at Yahoo! – wrote a blog post singing the praises of audiosharing site Huffduffer. But it wasn’t Huffduffer’s service that got Luke W animated, so much as their sign-up page.
While most sites use a standard form with text-boxes and radio buttons for new sign-ups, Huffduffer presents its questions [...]

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Sat, February 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Man Checks-In Everywhere But Foursquare Rehab

Earlier today, I was ousted as the mayor of the Googleplex Patio on Foursquare. Turns out, it was this guy. KrazyDad was a man on a mission: to show the holes in Foursquare’s check-in based system. And boy did he.
To be clear, anyone who has used Foursquare quite a bit is likely well aware of [...]

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Tue, February 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Lost: If Microsofties Can’t Live Together, Microsoft May Die Alone

There’s a very interesting op-ed piece in The New York Times today entitled Microsoft’s Creative Destruction. In it, the author details what he feels are the reasons that Microsoft has failed to innovate at the same pace as their competitors over the years. Big deal, right? After all, a lot of people write these types [...]

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Fri, February 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments