Aug 05, 2009

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader: Early adopters are a critical component to any startup environment.  This particular demographic is unlike any that a company will face in the future.  It’s the early adopters who are first to interact with a company’s initial product or service.    It’s the early adopters who represent a company’s first fan or first critic (Read More)

May 29, 2009

louisgray-com Thursday evening, I had the opportunity to attend one of the semi-regular open houses held at FriendFeed headquarters in Mountain View. (See pictures from Brian Solis, who also attended) While on other occasions, I may have taken the chance to pick the brains of the small team, yesterday I ended up spending the bulk of the (Read More)

May 27, 2009

ReadWriteWeb At the 140 Twitter Conference yesterday, Alex Payne, Twitter's API lead told Robert Scoble that Twitter might soon add location-based information to every tweet. Currently, users can set a location on their profile, but individual tweets are not geo-coded in any way. If Twitter did indeed add a geo-references to every tweet (Read More)

May 10, 2009

ReadWriteWeb "Now is the time for people who care, who want to invent, who have skills in specific scientific and information technology areas, to get out there and add to the productivity of the economy," Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft said during the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture at Stanford University last week."The questi (Read More)

Apr 24, 2009

Mashable! Brian Wallace is a social media consultant. He authors a blog at nowsourcing.com/blog.A hashtag is a great way to bring people together around a topic on Twitter - just add a hash symbol (#) to the front of a word and encourage others to add it to their tweets about the same topic. Everyone can easily find these tweets by s (Read More)

Apr 14, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Thanks to its extensibility, Firefox quickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional, Mozilla's designers are also currently thinking about a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, in order to keep up with changing usage patter (Read More)

Apr 12, 2009

Twine | Brain, Mind and Consciousness items The Messy Future of Memory-Editing Drugs | Wired Science from Wired.com Bookmark added by Javed Alam at 12:19 AM CDT The Messy Futu (Read More)

Apr 09, 2009

ReadWriteWeb Facebook announced that it hit 200 million users today and Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Sandberg made a blog post describing some of the data mining that the company is doing of those connections. It's going to be great for advertisers, she says, it it should also be very good for the rest of us as well. I think it's cr (Read More)

Apr 04, 2009

TechCrunch Earlier this week, Google finally announced the formation of a new venture arm called Google Ventures. It is where all smaller-scale venture investments from Google will now originate. The day of the announcement, I chatted on the phone with Bill Maris and Rich Miner, the two Google executives who are managing the fund (Read More)

Apr 04, 2009

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Mar 25, 2009

L.A. Times Tech Blog Gareth Davis, Facebook's gaming guru, today confirmed rumors that the company is "looking at" adding virtual currency to its hyper-popular social networking site. Translation: Facebook is actively developing the feature, but reserves the right to abandon the project. "Clearly, it's something that is a large undertaking," D (Read More)

Mar 23, 2009

Mark Evans Jeremiah Owyang has an interesting post today about how Twitter could seize on a huge opportunity be creating a CRM (customer relationship management) system that would let companies track and respond to what people were saying on Twitter.His thesis is Twitter is becoming an increasingly important customer service tool but (Read More)

Mar 22, 2009

TechCrunch Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In it, he argues that the Internet shatters all forms of advertising.  “The problem is not the medium, the problem is the message, and the fact that it is (Read More)

Mar 16, 2009

louisgray.com Today, Facebook announced they are now making it possible for anyone to open up their status updates and more, to the world. This means that by going into your privacy settings on Facebook and selecting "everyone" on various profile options, Google can now index it, non-friends are able to see it, and it puts Facebook "face (Read More)

Mar 15, 2009

TwitLinks There are a few established players in the world of Twitter directories. We have covered several directories, including Twellow and Just Tweet It , as well as compared Twitter directories based on their usefulness. But after this weekend, they may find themselves struggling against a new competitor. (Read More)

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