Last Friday the Twitter account of @whatstrending sent out an erroneous tweet stating that former Apple CEO Steve Jobs had passed away. Word of his passing quickly spread across the social network, causing panic and confusion. Fortunately for Mr. Jobs it was all false information, he was very much alive and the victim of an uncorroborated [...]
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Google Plus Will Use Video To Kill Twitter and Facebook
Video is the killer feature on Google Plus. Every social network has a niche that it dominates in. For Twitter it is real time news being shared in short 140 character bursts. On Facebook the killer app has always been photos, it is now the de facto standard for tagging and sharing photos with your family and [...]
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What Twitter Learned from MySpace’s Demise and FaceBook’s Rise
The Twitter rumor mill is in overdrive this week over the impending launch of a Twitter owned photo sharing service. This combined with the purchase of the Ad bidding platform ‘AdGrok’ points to Twitters monetization goals. To get some perspective on these strategic moves, we need to examine how earlier social networks failed and some [...]
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Buffer – An Evernote Style Twitter App
A guest post by Leo Widrich (Co-founder of Buffer App) For those of you who are familiar with Evernote, an App that allows you to organize and clip content from the web, the functionality of Buffer will be very intuitive for you. How to use it Buffer allows you to add tweets to your Buffer [...]
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ShowYou App Curates Videos From Your Twitter Stream
What’s the best way to curate the sea of videos available online? While there have been video aggregation sites in the past, none of them have successfully tapped into a users social graph to create a stream that caters to your taste. The developers at Remixation creators of VodPod.com have set out to solve this [...]
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Can Tech Companies Thrive Without Their Founders?
The brief history of internet startups is littered with sad accounts of sites that grew rapidly and showed tons of promise, only to falter under new management. In the early days of a site’s life, the founders are still at the helm, steadily pursuing their vision of revolutionizing the web. Full of zeal they launch [...]
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Nandimobile Poised To Be The GupShup of African SMS Services
Recently, NandiMobile, a start-up from the MEST Incubator won the “Best Business” award at the LAUNCH conference in San Francisco. As a small startup that grew out of an entrepreneur incubator program in Ghana, this is quite an accomplishment. NandiMobile has tapped into the ubiquity of cell phone use across Africa as the hardware of [...]
Five Key Principles For Innovation Success
How do you instill a culture of innovation with your company? In order to make your product or service stand out from the pack in a competitive landscape you have to think outside of the box. An organization must be so organized as to get constant feedback from the members of its ranks about what [...]
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LAUNCH:Tech Conference 2011
Within every seeming loss is the seed of a new opportunity. When Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington had their falling out over Techcrunch 50, it seemed as if Jason was left holding a bag of coals. Being an uber-entrepreneur Calacanis turned that coal into a fire and channeled that energy into the Launch Conference. LAUNCH [...]
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Yobongo Could Be The Next Twitter At SXSW 2011
With the technorati descending on Austin, Texas for SXSW 2011, the chatter online has been building over which startup will be the next Twitter or Foursquare. What will be the next social app that we didn’t know that we needed but now can’t live without? Caleb Elston co-founder of ’Yobongo‘ thinks they have what it takes [...]
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