@ Java in the morning

March 24, 2008 No comments yet

This morning I started out fairly early to get some work done before the mad rush and to be available for a client (East coast). I went into the office which was as quiet as a church and thought – this is going to help me get some good rem sleep .. or I can [...]

Social Circuit: Intel Embraces Blog Culture

March 21, 2008 No comments yet

If you think of the universe of technology—and for that matter-social media, Intel seems to be constantly at the center of it. The devices we use, what we see on them, the companies that provide them, almost completely depend upon Intel for the processing power needed to make it work.
I spent some time with [...]

Building a New City of Tech(Boise)

March 19, 2008 1 comment

We have an opportunity. An opportunity for people like us, an opportunity to define the future of our home – Boise.
Did you know that we have the oldest legislative body in the entire nation? Our state representatives, many senior business leaders and officials leading the education infrastructure are not tech savvy. Worse, they glaze [...]

A Twist on the Traditional Magazine Model

March 13, 2008 1 comment

8020’s publications are filled entirely with content generated by online readers. But will people pay for it?
Weary of his job as an urban planner for the city of Portland, Ore., Sloan Schang dreamed of making a living as a writer. How, exactly, he wasn’t sure. But he quit his job, sold his house and, [...]

Facebook Triage – Declining CPM

March 12, 2008 No comments yet

Social networks have flooded the market with inventory, pushing down ad rates based on CPM, according to one Microsoft executive.
Dean Carignan, Microsoft’s director of ad business strategy in the entertainment and device division, made that disclosure during a panel discussion today at the McGraw-Hill Media Summit in New York City.
After the panel [...]

Drip Marketing

March 10, 2008 No comments yet

What is drip marketing? Drip marketing is a direct marketing strategy that involves sending out several promotional pieces over a period of time to a subset of sales leads.
 
Is this process effective and how can you begin planning your drip marketing campaign?
 
The phrase drip marketing comes from the common phrase used in agriculture and gardening [...]

iFund

March 7, 2008 1 comment

KPCB’s iFund is a $100M investment initiative that will fund market-changing ideas and products that extend the revolutionary new iPhone and iPod touch platform. The iFund is agnostic to size and stage of investment and will invest in companies building applications, services and components. Focus areas include location based services, social networking, mCommerce (including advertising [...]

Please do it.

March 6, 2008 1 comment

Starting is the hardest part. I have this idea in my head that I have been rolling around for a while. The idea has to do with a fairly simple business that requires very little capitol to begin and a straight-forward, easy to understand product. I’m no rocket scientist, so the type of product I [...]


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