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Entries Tagged as 'Startups'

Venture Gap (Canadian Business)

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Albert Lai is the kind of entrepreneur Canada should be fortunate to have. The 29-year-old has been involved in dozens of startups since leaving university during his first year to work for himself.

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The Insider: Startup wanted, no experience required (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Reality show “Start Up Junkies” looking for another company to profile … Mobile, Ala., chamber invokes a Seattle service icon … PerkyPoll enters a crowded online-polling space …

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Social Sites Taking the Slow Road to IPO? (E-Commerce Times)

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments

During the Web’s heyday, a profitable Internet company nearing $100 million in annual sales while luring a million new customers a month would have found itself on the IPO fast track. However, that’s hardly the case for LinkedIn, a professional networking site that has cleared those hurdles and then some.

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Former Polish PM Says Online Voting Caters To Beer Drinking, Porn Watching Youth

March 16th, 2008 · No Comments

The former Prime Minister of Poland Jaroslaw Kaczynski says that Polish citizens should not be given the option of voting online.
“I am not an enthusiast of a young person sitting in front of a computer, watching video clips and pornography while sipping a bottle of beer and voting when he feels like it,” Kaczynski said […]

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Gates Zings Google On Applications

March 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Eric Schmidt and his fellow Googlers probably can’t wait for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to get the heck out of the business world and go on with his philanthropic works.
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Googleholic for February 26, 2008

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Internet, Google, Googleholic

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!This edition covers:

Put Google Talk in your blog - “chatback”
Pakistan’s YouTube ban causes two hour downtime
Google helps lay another undersea cable to Japan

Put Google Talk in your blog - “chatback”
Google Talk has announced a new feature called “chatback,” which is a way […]

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Progress is being made on Vudyo and Cromple.

January 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I now have a few sites up and running. Vudyo is an audio sharing playlist site thats run on a clipshare foundation.

Which is doing pretty good. I have to fine tune it some more though.
My second is

This one is a micro-blogging site that is custom coded. Cromple just started and is making […]

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French President Proposes Tax On Internet

January 10th, 2008 · No Comments

French President Nicholas Sarkozy has proposed banning advertising on public television and recovering some of the lost revenue by taxing the Internet and mobile phones.
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Study Labels Social Networking Types

January 9th, 2008 · No Comments

MySpace commissioned a study of MySpace and Facebook users and researchers identified six types. They also invented a word or two along the way.
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Plaxo, Facebook, and Google go ‘open’ by joining DataPortability.org

January 8th, 2008 · No Comments

Filed under: Google, Social Software, web 2.0
In the wake of last week’s explosion of attention on data portability on social networks, (that is, being able to take your data from one social network to the other) there is a huge development today. Google, Facebook, and Plaxo have all announced they’re joining DataPortability.org.
What does this mean? […]

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