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Google Dashboard is a new service that shows a summary of the data stored with a Google account. You'll soon find a link to Google Dashboard in the "personal settings" of the "my account" page.The dashboard lists all the information associated with the Google services you use: your name, your email address, the number of co (Read More)
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One of the most powerful things I have learned over the past year is the immense amount of data that comes out of using a computer system, specifically some form an online web based experience. At Union Square Ventures, we refer to this as data exhaust, or sometimes called digital exhaust, because it is [...]Post from: Mar (Read More)
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Steve Blank, author of Four steps to the Epiphany, will be joining a group of customer development mavens on November 12, 2009 in NYC. He will be discussing the CDP (customer development process) and do a Q&A with entrepreneurs present. We hope to record the event and share it here.If you are interested [...]Post from: Ma (Read More)
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Image via CrunchBaseGoogle announced the ability to search, find, and play music via their search experience tonight.This is a huge business development boon by the companies involved and a major kudos goes to Imeem, MySpacePandora, LaLa, and Rhapsody. This also seems like a big win for the record labels.Below is a video t (Read More)
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CNN relaunched this week with a complete redesign.Along with having some smart advertising introduce the new layout, integrated well with the IAB standard units, they highlighted another section at the top of their navigation: CNN NewsPulseThis dashboard approach combines a few items you have probably seen elsewhere on cont (Read More)
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I believe that we are in the very nascent stages of social games which is evident by recent news that some old classics like Sid Meier’s Civilization is coming to Facebook.This is a game that was potentially finished and is now being resurrected to a platform that has become relevant. By bringing social features [...]Post (Read More)
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I recently read an article about 3 ways to pitch yourself and it got me thinking about processing and bottling up your story.The gist of the post are these three key elements:1. Think relevant, not recent2. Focus on skills-based versus situation or industry-based qualifications.3. Connect the dots — what ties it all toget (Read More)
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Image via WikipediaI deal with a number of requests all focused around setting up a time and location. Sometimes its me reaching out to someone and other times it is someone reaching out to me.These range from setting up a time to speak via phone or can include setting a time and a place [...]Post from: Marketing.fm - Eric (Read More)
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I was emailed an interesting initiative today about Google and Wharton (highlighting their new site on YouTube) showing interesting speakers discussing the current and future state of media and advertising as well as some handy tools.In their own words:Google and the Wharton School’s Future of Advertising Project are partne (Read More)
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To determine who your customers are you have to frame how and what current problems exist for a set of customers or companies.Many people however do not take this research to the next level by following the pain down or up the food chain to the point of origin down to the people it affects [...]Post from: Marketing.fm - Eri (Read More)
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No startup wants to end up in the deadpool and failing gracefully does not necessarily mean cleaning up the mess when things go wrong. Instead, there are ways to fail in the beginning that can lead to success in the future of a small company.Failing gracefully means recognizing that when your app first launches [...]Post f (Read More)
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3 years and 1 day ago I wrote a introductory post about RSS. Since that time a lot has happened with RSS, but I keep referring back to that post. In fact, it became a presentation I did a few times both within my last company (to teach everyone about using a feed reader [...]Post from: Marketing.fm - Eric Friedman
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Last week my friend Spencer Fry from Carbonmade showed me a cool activity he participates in about once a month. His company sends out a message to its users inviting them into a Drop.io chatroom to discuss Carbonmade which is an online design portfolio company, and talk to the founders. More importantly, users [...]Post (Read More)
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This Friday October 2nd 2009 I will be participating in an event called The Feast Kitchen where startups will get to present their ideas for social good. These are companies (some non-profit some for profit) trying to make the world a better place.I have two tickets to give away and invite anyone interested in [...]Post fr (Read More)