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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Gold Coins Gain

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Physical gold is back in vogue, thanks to the global economy being in bad shape. It is time to have gold IRA and gold 401k thoughts. If you want to know how to put gold in an IRA visit Gold Coins Gain.

401k gold, IRA gold is back in vogue for a reason. Don't get left out. Physical gold might be one way out of the ongoing economic turbulence.

What are your other options?

Ride out the storm the smart way.

Dennis Crowley: I Underestimated Him

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Dennis Crowley and his gang presented FourSquare at the New York Tech MeetUp many many months back. I was not that impressed. Actually the app felt cheesy to me. But now I can see why it is being touted as the next Twitter. I met Crowley at a recent New York Tech MeetUp and told him about my initial reaction and congratulated him on his recent buzz.

You have to notice Fred Wilson is an investor in both Twitter and FourSquare. That guy can sure see trends. He spots.(Fred Wilson) Google obviously was not able to see what Fred Wilson was able to.

Om Malik: Why I Love FourSquare

And it is not just Dennis, it is also Naveen. I talked to him after their first demo at the NYTM.

People have asked this question: If Twitter came after Facebook, what will come after Twitter? There were comics who suggested we might end up with a service that allows for only 40 characters maybe.

Ends up it is not what you can say in 140 characters. Your current location is interesting enough information.

FourSquare

2010 Trends: Pete Cashmore's Take

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"....the continued spread of social media, location sharing, and Internet TV...."

Social media has not seen its full manifestations. So yeah 2010 might be bigger for social media than 2009 has been. But it was 2009 when Twitter really took off as a buzz brand. Facebook keeps growing by leaps and bounds. Facebook has figured out something basic that Twitter has not, not yet. The everyperson gets Facebook. That everyperson does not get Twitter yet. It has been more of a tech elite application. Granted that covers most of those who shape thoughts, but I would not bet my business model just on that.

FourSquare is the next Twitter, if you believe the buzz. Location sharing is the web going a little bit 3D. That is very much up my alley. I have kept arguing Web 3.0 is not the semantic web, it is the 3D web.

Our broadband pipes are going to get bigger. We will consume more video format content online. Video in real time is TV, right?

Pete Cashmore's CNN Article: 10 Web Trends To Watch In 2010

2010 is looking really good for one giant: Google. Wave and Android will really take off. But this Cashmore article will be an interesting read a year from now. Future can not be predicted. That is inherent. Could we have foreseen Fall 2009 in Fall 2008? I doubt it.

"....location is not about any singular service; rather, it's a new layer of the Web...."

This comment is very insightful.

Matt Galligan, Pete Cashmore, Brian DeWitt

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"How many desktop applications do we really need"

Just one, the browser.

".....a converse trend in which task-specific devices gain popularity......"

It is because our tech realities are an ecosystem. There is room for the all-in-one and the one-in-one. And more.

Farmville has a message. It is a major business trend.

Privacy as a concept will get redefined. It will get new life.

What is most interesting to me about this article by Pete Cashmore is the interaction between old media - CNN - and new media - Mashable. I think CNN is more a brand name than an old media entity. They have the option to incorporate new media and social media into that brand. And they are doing it. Old brand names need not die, but they do need to face the new reality.

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Discovering Andrew Wong

Droid Does

Mashable story: TIME Names Gadget of the Year: Droid

Verizon Droid competes with the iPhone and Amazon's Kindle faces competition in the Barnes Noble product. For now the newcomers seem to have the buzz. Mashable thinks iPhone is the superior phone. TechCrunch thinks it is Droid. My bias is for Droid. I have a feeling the iPhone is the Mac and the Droid is the PC, poised for a wider adoption. We will see.

Monday, December 07, 2009

Google Wave For The Masses

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Mashable just broke story saying Google Wave has now a million members and many more invites are being sent out. I say about time. Google Wave is not a whole lot of fun if all or most of your friends are not on it.

So far I have used it with very few people, very few times, and all I have done is have instant messenger like short conversations. So far I have not used the multimedia features or the document collaboration features. Or how about publishing a wave as a blog post? I think I would like that greatly.

Google Wave needs to be scaled and fast. Go for the masses. It is gift giving time.

I Now Have Google Wave
Anil Dash On Google Wave
Bill Gates, Chrome OS, Natal, Wave
Blog Carnival: Google Wave
Google Wave API Google Group: Got To Undo The Ban On Me
Google Wave Protest
Google Wave API Google Group: Stalinist Mindset
The Google Wave Developer Community Will Be Vibrant
Five Blind Men And Google Wave
A Little Trouble At The Google Wave API Google Group
Lessons From The Open Source Community For The Wave Community
Google Wave Developer Community: Asking For A Culture?
Google Wave: Organizations Will Go Topsy Turvy
Google Wave: Enormous Buzz
Possible Google Wave Applications And Innovations
Google Wave Architecture: Designed For Mass, Massive, Global Innovation
The Google Wave Architecture
Google Wave Ripples
Is Google Wave Social Enough To Challenge Facebook, Twitter?
Of Waves And Tsunamis

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Google Wave: Wave Of The Future?
Google Wave: If Email Were Invented Today

Google Wave Developer Blog

Google Wave API Articles: Extensions Debugging & Robot-to-Gadget Communication
You got questions? We've got answers!
Upcoming US Events with Google Wave Presentations
WaveSandbox.com: Federate This
Happy Hallo-Wave-een!
Google Wave is headed to Europe: Join us!
Google Wave at GTUG London: Monday, October 26
Google Wave Samples Gallery: Best Practices & New Features
What happened in the Wave sandbox
Google Wave in Internet Explorer
Google Wave Extension Updates
Google Wave API Hackathon & Federation Day: Videos Available Now!
Tweety Sample Improved with OAuth Support
Prototyping a Drupal Module for Google Wave
Google Wave Community Events
Google Wave Federation Protocol and Open Source Updates
Google Wave: Updates from today's hackathon
Google Wave Sandbox Update
Google Wave API Presentations: Now Online
Google Wave Hackathon and Federation Day: July 20, 21 in Mountain View
Share Your Work in the Wave Samples Gallery
TwilioBot: Bringing Phone Conversations into Waves
1 Wave Sandbox, 5 Hours, 17 Awesome Demos
The Making of the Sudoku Gadget
Google Wave API Office Hours
Google Wave team heads to Google Developer Days in Asia
Introducing the Google Wave APIs: what can you build?

Finally Real Time Search From Google

Mashable Story: Real Time Search From Google
Read Write Web
Tweets And Facebook Updates: The Mumbojumbo
Search: Pregnant Territory
Twitter Should Hand Over Search To Google
Search: The Human Vs. The Machine
Dynamic PageRank And Real Time Search
Microblogging Search: What Took Google So Long?
Real Time Search: Twitter Is Not Doing It

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Search Come Full Circle: That Human Element

This is a moment I have been waiting for for a few months now. All tweets reside on Twitter's servers, and they still can not fathom all tweets. All Facebook updates reside on Facebook servers and Facebook still is not serving a search on Facebook updates, I thought. Let the king into the ring. Let Google do search.

Finally Google is doing it.

But this is only the first step. I don't want to be able to search the here and now. Actually the archives of tweets and Facebook updates are of greater interest to me. Help me see all sorts of patterns. Dig into the archives and display in many different ways.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

The Pro-Blogger's Daily Routine

Eric Schmidt talks about the newspaper industry. I get the impression he is talking to Rupert Murdoch on his turf, the Wall Street Journal.
The numero uno professional blogger Darren Rowse always has good stuff at this blog. He pours out daily.
How To Stop Procrastinating and Start Your Blog
ProBlogging – 10 Things I Wish I Knew when I Started
$72,000 in E-Books in a Week – 8 Lessons I Learned
7 Questions to Ask On Your Blog to Get More Reader Engagement
What to Do When Your Search Rankings Drop
From Blog to Small Business: Tips for Taking Your Blog to a Whole New Level
What You Can Learn About Blogging Business Models from a Hip-Hop Artist Who Used to Hustle on the Corner Just to Put Food in His Daughter’s Mouth. An Ode To Biggie, Small Business and Making Money. It’s Juicy.
The dude publishes daily. That right there is discipline.
What makes Google Chrome fast? DNS pre-resolution, the V8 JavaScript engine, and DOM bindings.
Fathoming Google's Friend Connect.
The Copy Blogger is also noteworthy.
The First Rule of Copyblogger
The Eminem Guide to Becoming a Writing and Marketing Machine
The 7 Harsh Realities of Social Media Marketing
The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging
Blogging is Dead (Again)
Is Commenting on Blogs a Smart Traffic Strategy?
The #1 Conversion Killer in Your Copy (And How to Beat It)
How Twitter Makes You A Better Writer
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Is Your Tribe Holding You Down?
Why You Can’t Make Money Blogging
5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter
How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Business
The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words
How to Write an Article in 20 Minutes
Why No One Links to Your Best Posts (And What to Do About It)
How to Be Interesting
How to Increase Your Blog Subscription Rate by 254%
How to Create Ebooks That Sell
Ten Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques
Do You Recognize These 10 Mental Blocks to Creative Thinking?
How to Get 6,312 Subscribers to Your Business Blog in One Day
10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Do You Make These 7 Mistakes When You Write?
Five Grammatical Errors that Make You Look Dumb
The 5 Immutable Laws of Persuasive Blogging
10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers
Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well
5 Simple Ways to Open Your Blog Post With a Bang
The Two Most Important Words in Blogging

New Yorker, New York Times Style, Twitter And Me

I Got My Retweet Button Now
This Blog's Alexa Rank Is Up Substantially
Twitter Should Go For A Netscape-Like IPO
I Have Access To Twitter Lists
Jeff Jarvis, Me And Twitter
Content, Microcontent, Blogging, Microblogging
I Must Be Following A Lot Of People On Twitter
Between A Rock And A Hard Place: Jeff Jarvis, Jay Rosen
NYC Twitter Elite: Number 12
My First Tweet From My Phone

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

House4Cell: Mobile Real Estate System

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House4Cell.com uses mobile technology to market real estate. You text in the code found on the property and and immediately you get all the information on the property and you get as many as three photos. People on the move will stay on the move. The thing is can you do business with people who are on the move? That is pretty much everybody these days.

House4Cell.com lets the realtors send flyers also over email and fax. It is all integrated. There are more ways than one. Noone else delivers real estate photos on Verizon phones but House4Cell.com.

Go mobile. Yes, you can.

EZUnsecured.com

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EZUnsecured.com helps you finance your business. Credit is not easy coming by. That is where EZUnsecured.com comes in. This is not easy money, this is not free money. But when your business could really use some cash, and that cash is not coming the usual routes, and you have been knocking on the doors of banks without much success, that is where EZUnsecured.com will step in and make sense. But you better have a plan for that money. You better grow it right. Or you could get thrown off balance. They can take as much as 10% of the money they might find for you. That is the kind of price you have to be willing to pay for credit not so easily obtained. But if you know what to do with the other 90%, you should get going. EZUnsecured.com does unsecured financing.

Elgg: A Job Marketplace

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Elgg is a job marketplace. If you are looking for top designers, coders and talented techies in general, dig deep at Elgg Exchange. This is the go to place to find Elgg developers.

Too many job sites out there are too general. You post a job and you collect resumes like you might have collected stamps as a kid. It is often a deluge. Instead of finding someone to do your job, you get a job, the job to plough through an endless stream of irrelevant resumes.

Egg Exchange is much more specific. The site attracts top talent, developers who value "beautiful design, beautiful code, high standards." The site lists about 100 jobs at any one time. So it works great for those looking for jobs as well. It is not a flood. It just helps you make an informed decision. If you are in the niche, you should not have to look around too hard.

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