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Live: Cisco Live Blogger Meetup

Warning: This is a live blog. Words may be misspelled. Sentences, incomplete. But the photos will be plenty, so you can't be mad either way. Cisco Live is the ultimate networking event; literally, physically, and socially. Engineers from all over the globe have...

Tags: Meetup, Event, Cisco Systems Inc., Blogger, Cisco Live, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Meetup.com CEO Scott Heiferman

Internet revolution: "The power to organize"Talking to CNET News.com's Charles Cooper, Meetup founder and CEO Scott Heiferman says Meetup is spreading beyond America. The service, Heiferman says, is helping "make the world a friendlier place."

Tags: INTERNET, Scott Heiferman, Meetup

Videos 2005-12-09

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Do people want or need social location (SoLo) services?

Over the last couple of years, one of Nokia's big focuses has been on social location technology and services and I suppose it is a natural evolution in the usage of GPS technology. There have been a number of services from Nokia such as Vine, Friend View, enhanced Ovi Maps,...

Tags: Nokia Corp., Service, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Aardvark: ask it anything, get an answer in 5 minutes [invites]

If you want an invite to Aardvark, click here. San-Francisco startup Mechanical Zoo is trying to build the ultimate interactive knowledge base. And it's kind of addicting. Once you get started, you will not want to stop. ...

Tags: Friend, Question, Aardvark, Jason Calacanis, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-07-30

iLocal 1.0 (Mobile)

iLocal gathers messages from your current zipcode and nearby towns if necessary. Discover new friends and events in your local community. iLocal is a social networking application along the lines of Facebook, myspace, craigslist, meetup, and bebo with a focus on your local area. The unique messaging capability of iLocal...

Tags: Mobile, Messaging, Internet Inferno, iLocal, Internet, Social Networking, Instant Messaging, Groupware, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-22

News to know: Facebook privacy, Windows 7, Kindle, Firefox 3.5

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down Ed Bott: Microsoft to offer Family Pack...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Andrew Nusca, Privacy, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-07-02

The tech stars of Road Trip 2009's Boulder meetup

CNET Road Trip 2009 hosted its first-ever meetup in Boulder, Colo., on Tuesday night. Almost everyone who showed up was connected in some way to Techstars, an organization that provides seed money and mentorship to startups. by CNET News.com

Tags: Road Trip, Boulder, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-06-23

eBay starts undoing bad acquisitions: Sets StumbleUpon free

StumbleUpon is a startup again as the original founders and a few well-heeled investors bought it back from eBay. The next question: When will Skype leave the eBay fold? In a statement blog, StumbleUpon said its two year run as a subsidiary of eBay is over. StumbleUpon founders...

Tags: Acquisition, Skype Technologies S.A., StumbleUpon, eBay Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Web Technology, Corporate Law, E-business/E-Commerce, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-13

A dream mobile platform with flexible high-res displays, rugged, low-cost, and carbon neutral

Here is a description of a real platform that has all of these dream qualities: - It is light - very portable, it can be made pocket sized - instant on - very cheap -...

Tags: Mobile, Platform, Carbon, Entrepreneurship, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Flash coming for WiMo, Android, ... iPhone?

Flash coming for WiMo, Android, ... iPhone?Well if Brian X. Chen is telling the truth...With this statement "In response to this, the Android guys make a good point: "Google could care less if that were the case with Android. Getting more people using mobile internet is their primary concern."Then...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPhone, Flash Video, mobile

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

IT failures town hall: Boston, December 3

Come join top AMR Research analyst, Jonathan Yarmis, and me for an informal IT failures meetup in Boston on December 3. I'll bake fresh muffins and bring the coffee. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: AMR Research, Information Technology, Boston, Strategy, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-11-13

OSUM portal from Sun

Yes, that acronym is pronounced "Awesome." Cheesy acronyms aside, the Open Source University Meetup is actually a great idea. Joe Hartley touched on it during our interview and Sun Microsystems formally announced it yesterday. OSUM is a social networking and learning site devoted to Sun Microsystem's ecosystem...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Student, Portal, OSUM, Open Source, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-30

News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging Garett Rogers: Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts Jason Perlow: Microsoft: It's...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Text Messaging, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-15

Bear Hug Camp: a microblogging meetup

Bear Hug Camp: a microblogging meetupAnother Write-upI've posted a write-up of my own notes at my blog here:http://metajack.im/2008/09/13/bearhugcamp-for-those-who-missed-it/

Tags: Blogging, Bear Hug Camp, Bear Hug

Discussion threads 2008-09-13

Bear Hug Camp: a microblogging meetup

CBS Interactive hosted a meetup about the state of microblogging. Bear Hug Camp is about discussing the future of messaging. People use Twitter as a way to communicate and stay in touch with their audience. It's not always reliable though. ...

Tags: Steve Gillmor, Twitter, Instant Messaging, Blogging, Internet, Online Communications, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-12

TechCrunch50: Day 2

Yesterday's presentations were a lot of fun to cover. I'm getting right back into the grind today. 6:30 a.m. Here is a list of today's presentations: Alfabetic Presented by Oded Broshi and Arik Kopelman DropBox (Presented by Drew Houston...

Tags: Facebook, Phone, Tim O'Reilly, Mark Cuban, Mytopia, Swype, Mixtt Redefining, iMindi World, Popego Cut, exchangeP, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Food & Beverage, Channel Management, Manufacturing, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-09

Social design advice for Starbucks

Starbucks announced today it will begin a daily "Good Sheet" of news about politics, health care and other issues that it will distribute in its stores as a way to start conversations. According to a Starbucks executive quoted by The Motley Fool, the company is looking for "conversation starters." It...

Tags: Starbucks Corp., Store, Good Sheet Experiment, Corporate Communications, Social Networking, Digital Music, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Sneak peek at the new Unicode-friendly PHP6

The following is a guest post from Andrew Mager, associate technical producer at ZDNet. This dispatch is from the Bay Area PHP Meetup. He can be found at Andrewmager.com. When Andrei Zmievski isn't busy building infrastructure for a social gaming startup, or processing photos from his Nikon...

Tags: Unicode, PHP, Internationalization, TextIterator, Transliteration, Zmievski, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Tim Berners-Lee talks cranberry sauce and Linked Data in New York City

Sir Tim Berners-Lee took to the stage in New York City last night, to deliver the final keynote of the day at JupiterMedia's new semantic web event, Linked Data Planet. The ballroom of the Roosevelt Hotel was certainly busier than earlier in the day, as a smattering...

Tags: Tim Berners-Lee, Brand, URI, Data, Tim, RDF, Semantic Web, Branding, XML, Printers, Internet, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-06-18

12 social networking sites for niche lovers

This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips. The huge popularity of sites like MySpace and FaceBook has spawned an array of niche social networking sites catered to those who want to reduce their exposure and connect with smaller,...

Tags: Talent, Network, Social Networking Site, Fuzzster, NurseLinkUp, Yub, MOG, Flixster, TravellersPoint, TalTopia, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-05