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8 February 2007
LiveBlogging WeMedia- Funding Panel
Great panel on the funding
1:46: Scott Rafer (MyBlogLog, Tons of Things), Jeff Taylor (Founder of Monster and Eons…big time), Chris Versace (Agile Equity), and Bryan o Mailey (Battery Ventures)
1:48: Rafer talking about little money to do mybloglog. It’s spread from silicon valley to everywhere. News. Reuters talking about their focus on things […]
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8 February 2007
WeMedia Liveblogging- Lunch and Breaks
Just had a great lunch. I actually grabbed a snack at the Wendy’s on campus here at UMiami. Everyone was talking, participating, and having a great time. Second Life and Reuters were demoing some cool things as well. Sat down with Shel Israel, who is an amazingly nice guy. He’s been […]
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8 February 2007
WeMedia LiveBlogging-Intro+Community Forum
9:38: Introduction finished. Showing Where’s the Love community video. Random acts of media across the world. Set to the music of Where’s the Love by the black Eyed Peas and Justin Timberlake. Great photo collage showing some very interesting pictures filled with different emotions.
9:41: Shel Israel, Lisa Stone, Ian Rowe, Rich […]
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8 February 2007
LiveBlogging WeMedia
Just sat down at the WeMedia Conference. People are still registering, networking, talking,etc.,etc. The hardest part is connecting to the UM Wifi for everyone as guests. Some of the most successful and smartest people in the the tech industry are baffled and shuffling around. The event should begin in 30 minutes or […]
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22 January 2007
The Community Needs To Hold Software and Web Companies To a Higher Standard
I’m really really sick of piss poor applications being distributed and more importantly represented by corporations. I think the enterprise space is the largest culprit here. So many applications do the bare minimum. If Apple had not released the Macintosh, we would have been content with a non-gui interface. Innovation drives society, […]
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21 January 2007
Startup Tip Of The Week: Utilize Local University Resources
Don’t spend tons of money subscribing to expensive databases and market research lists. Most universities offer these databases to their students free of charge. Hoovers, LexisNexis, Factiva,etc. are all there and usually for free. If you’re a student-entrepreneur (student-athlete was so 20th century), take advantage of this. If you’re not a […]
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17 January 2007
Users of MS Paint Unite!
Within the company, I am known to dabble in Microsoft Paint in order to make a visual representation of how I envision a certain aspect of our software. I then pass on this crude — yet surprisingly effective — “sketch” to our developer so that he can then laugh at me and my artistic […]
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16 January 2007
Innovation Was Dead In 2006. 2007 Will Change That
Don’t get me wrong, 2006 was an amazing year for the Tech and Web community as a whole. Acquisitions were happening, startups were being created like wildfire, and a lot more. If you boil it down to the core though… Innovation was dead in 2006. Here’s a few reasons why:
Me-Too, Me-three, Me-TwentyFive!- That’s […]
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9 January 2007
Allow Myself to Introduce… Myself.
(For those that didn’t get the Austin Powers reference, please go rent the movie.) Hi. I’m Frank Astor, President of Publictivity, Inc. and Jason’s business partner. This is my introductory post where I will, for the first time, present myself to the blogging world. This is quite an exciting event for me. I have been […]
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7 January 2007
Open Source Everything Except For Facebook/MySpace
There are open source Diggs, Wikipedia (technically the foundation is open source, but you know what I mean), ECommerce, Forums,Photo sites, etc. Why has no one organized an open source version of facebook/ myspace that is clean, nice, and allow plugins? Seriously, this could be huge. Just a random idea that I’m throwing out […]