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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse

ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Twitter has captured our imagination and bloggers in particular and become a new hybrid of chat, social networking and blogging. Further Josh adds "Twitter still exists outside more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Social Networking  |  

Ignite Seattle on 2/19 - Ignite Portland on 2/5

The next Ignite Seattle is February 19th at the CHAC. It's great to be back! At the last one we had over 350 people watch 15 great talks (all of which can be found online). Watch the videos (courtesy of more...
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Wherigo lets anyone build games

Wherigo lets anyone build games (or tour guides or local reviews or real estate apps) using the Lua programming language. The games can be tied to a specific location or they can be "play anywhere". The more...
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Six Apart Gets Into Microblogging with Activity Streams

Six Apart this morning launched a plugin for their MovableType blogging platform that aggregates and displays a user's activity from social web sites. Similar to FriendFeed, the Action Streams plugin displays more...
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ThisNext raises $5 million

ThisNext, a social shopping services company has raised $5 million in series B round as reported by Techcrunch. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: E-Commerce  |  

BlogTV and ICQ join hands

Techcrunch is reporting that the BlogTV has signed a strategic deal with ICQ. ICQ is owned by AOL. This will allow BlogTV to promote its product to ICQ users through ICQ website. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: New Media  |  

Etsy Raises $27 Million in Venture Capital

Etsy, the site which sells hand crafted goods has raised $27 million in series C funding as reported by Techcrunch. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: E-Commerce  |  

The Dreaded Lunch Invite From Your Venture Capitalist

Most of startup founders are fired in the very first year as founder CEO's and are typically replaced by a VC selected CEO. This is typically done by adding another member to the board, and then voting more...
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VCs Have Flashback Syndrome

Experienced VCs have invested in lots of companies and inevitably some of those companies have failed. When a VC sees a new company that is similar to a previous investment that failed VCs tend to shy more...
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How to Optimize the Founder’s Mind

Carleen Hawn writes about what startup founders need to do to optimize their brain. From visionaries like Steve Jobs to Sequoia VC Moritz, all read wide variety of books to sharpen their brains. more...
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