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Twitter Sets Chirp Free… Well, Cheaper

There’s a lot of excitement about Twitter’s first conference, Chirp, which takes place next month in San Francisco. In fact, the tickets for the event, despite their $469 price, have been selling out quickly (they’ve been releasing them in waves). And today brings great news for those still clamoring to go: there is a new [...]

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Tue, March 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

A Recap Of The Daniel Ek SXSW Spotify Keynote — In Rap Form

Whenever there’s a big event, like SXSW, we usually have people there to live-blog the important keynotes and/or write recaps of it afterwards. I’m not gonna lie, sometimes those are boring. You know what’s better? Rap songs that recap keynotes.
Hip-hop artist SaulPaul has released a video on YouTube which recaps the keynote Spotify CEO Daniel [...]

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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I’m Rooting For An All-Out Location War.

I didn’t have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? Yes. But there were plenty of other things to listen to. Did AT&T fail? No. Actually, they did [...]

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Sat, March 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Wait, Did Ev Williams Just Interview Umair Haque? Weird.

When SXSW sets up its festival, you have to assume they want the best and most engaging keynotes possible. If the public reaction to Umair Haque’s interview of Twitter co-founder Ev Williams is any indication, they failed. Badly.
I wish I could take credit for the title here, but it is all Mike Monteiro, appropriately, by [...]

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Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

“No Excuses” For European Startups And More Videos And Photos From Plugg 2010

Last Thursday saw the third edition of Plugg, a conference I started in my home country Belgium back in 2008 that essentially aims to launch and inspire European tech entrepreneurs and advance the startup ecosystem in these parts. The event is closely tied to TechCrunch, with myself as lead organizer and TechCrunch Europe editor Mike [...]

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Sun, March 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments