Posted in Business on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I recently an article on TechCrunch talking about a young company called PhoneTag.com that converts voice mails into text so that you can read your voice mail messages instead of having to step out of the room to listen to them. This feature would be great for business professionals who are constantly getting calls and [...]
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Posted in Business on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
An article was recently published at readwriteweb.com that brought to mind the changing face of the web and information. Currently, in our Web 2.0 world, we have interactive websites that are built on user content and social contribution, but as we move into Web 3.0, content will be driven by semantics algorithms that are [...]
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Posted in Business on May 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been saying it to friends and colleagues for quite some time, but it’s always nice when a story comes out to reiterate my view. This article was just released around Twitter and how it is impacting the reporting of news. The first mainstream news to pick up the earthquake that was twittered about was [...]
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Posted in Business on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
In these days of Twitter, Friendfeed, Facebook, Flickr, and Mobile Phones, social media marketing is all the rage. I love reading about clever ideas companies and groups use to promote themselves through social media. Radiohead recently held a remixing contest for one of its songs “Nude” (Wired). The contest elicited 2,300 entries or so, and [...]
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Posted in Business on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This story in the New York Times hits close to home for me. New York recently passed a law that we at BuildASign.com watched very closely. The law changed the definition of ‘nexus’ to include the receipt of referral fees within a state.
The article and bill are both interesting, but the underlying problem is much [...]
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