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There’s blood in the water surrounding Google Search+ (what we’re now calling Google Search Plus Your World). The Electronic Privacy Information Center recommends the FTC look at Search+ for possible privacy or antitrust concerns. Meanwhile, Twitter’s General...Eric Schmidt: Android I...
We’ve spent the better part of yesterday cruising around the Central Hall on a quest to highlight the coolest tech at CES, but Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was on hand at CNET’s Next Big Thing panel to talk about the future of consumer electronics. While doing so,...Social Travel In Realti...
As Semil showed back in November , social travel sites are all the rage these days among the entrepreneurs, offering plenty of interesting approaches to offering recommendations on where and how to travel. You may not have heard of HipGeo , but if you’re a traveler, this is...Want A Great Team? Focu...
Editor’s note : Guest contributor DJ Patil is the Chief Data Scientist at Greylock Partners. He previously worked for LinkedIn as their Chief Scientist and Chief Security Officer. DJ can be followed on Twitter @dpatil. One of the questions most founders always ask is about the...You Can’t Spell Media...
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Ben Elowitz ( @elowitz ) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint , a media company distributing content through the social web. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile (NILE). He blogs about digital media at Digital Quarters . Without...Engineering Serendipity...
Editor’s note : Guest contributor Catherine Cook is the co-founder of MyYearbook , a social network for meeting new people. When John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale reach for the same pair of black gloves in the movie Serendipity , they meet and fall in love. The goal of social...Spotify Has Gotten Big ...
Many of you who have been using streaming music service Spotify for free in the US from when it launched last July are now going to have to start paying, as Business Insider points out today. The reason is the company’s policy of limiting free usage to ten hours and/or five plays...
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Oh, how I love Reddit AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) posts. In almost all cases, the inherent down-to-earth nature of a community-driven interview leads the most interesting of people to open up in genuine, honest ways that they otherwise might not in a one-on-one interview. Plus, they’re...TechStars Launches Acce...
For a young startup, sometimes you want any funding you can get. For an incubator program, sometimes any startup is what you’re looking for. Finding each other won’t necessarily make either one successful, but more pairings might help overall. Or so believes TechStars, which...