Crazy For Tech - Gadgets,Cell Phones,Cameras » web 2.0 news & ideas http://crazyfortech.com Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:06:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://crazyfortech.com http://agadgetzone.com/favicon.ico Crazy For Tech - Gadgets,Cell Phones,Cameras The Power Of Pull: Joi Ito And Yossi Vardi Have Pull, And So Can You (Book Excerpt) http://crazyfortech.com/the-power-of-pull-joi-ito-and-yossi-vardi-have-pull-and-so-can-you-book-excerpt/ http://crazyfortech.com/the-power-of-pull-joi-ito-and-yossi-vardi-have-pull-and-so-can-you-book-excerpt/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 04:30:15 +0000 jos http://crazyfortech.com/the-power-of-pull-joi-ito-and-yossi-vardi-have-pull-and-so-can-you-book-excerpt/ Editor’s note : The following set of excerpts is from the recently published book The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things In Motion by John Hagel III , John Seely Brown , and Lang Davison. The excerpts are taken from throughout the book.

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]]> http://crazyfortech.com/the-power-of-pull-joi-ito-and-yossi-vardi-have-pull-and-so-can-you-book-excerpt/feed/ 0 Finally A Green Story I Can’t Mock: The Sun Chips Biodegradable Bag http://crazyfortech.com/finally-a-green-story-i-can%e2%80%99t-mock-the-sun-chips-biodegradable-bag/ http://crazyfortech.com/finally-a-green-story-i-can%e2%80%99t-mock-the-sun-chips-biodegradable-bag/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:58:55 +0000 bestcbstore http://crazyfortech.com/finally-a-green-story-i-can%e2%80%99t-mock-the-sun-chips-biodegradable-bag/ I love our planet as much as the next person, but I despise efforts by companies and people to get credit for caring about the earth with empty gestures. Like Pepsi’s ridiculous Aquafina press stunt .

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]]> http://crazyfortech.com/finally-a-green-story-i-can%e2%80%99t-mock-the-sun-chips-biodegradable-bag/feed/ 0 Bill Gates Talks About How To Change The World (Live Video) http://crazyfortech.com/bill-gates-talks-about-how-to-change-the-world-live-video/ http://crazyfortech.com/bill-gates-talks-about-how-to-change-the-world-live-video/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:10:52 +0000 A D M I N http://crazyfortech.com/bill-gates-talks-about-how-to-change-the-world-live-video/ How does Bill Gates inspire students to change the world? Tune in here to find out. Gates is kicking off a college tour today with a speech to students at UC Berkeley.

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]]> http://crazyfortech.com/why-a-bad-economy-is-the-best-time-to-start-a-business/feed/ 0 Hey, Twitter Startups: It’s Time To Stop Filling Holes and Start Building Killer Apps http://crazyfortech.com/hey-twitter-startups-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-stop-filling-holes-and-start-building-killer-apps/ http://crazyfortech.com/hey-twitter-startups-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-stop-filling-holes-and-start-building-killer-apps/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:27:07 +0000 admin2 http://crazyfortech.com/hey-twitter-startups-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-stop-filling-holes-and-start-building-killer-apps/ There are thousands of apps built on top of Twitter, but are any of them a true killer app that could give rise to an entirely new sub-industry? Venture capitalist, and Twitter investor, Fred Wilson doesn’t think so. While Twitter desktop clients, mobile apps, photo uploading services, and URL shorteners have all made Twitter what it is today, he points out : Much of the early work on the Twitter Platform has been filling holes in the Twitter product.

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]]> http://crazyfortech.com/hey-twitter-startups-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-stop-filling-holes-and-start-building-killer-apps/feed/ 0 Online Advertising Revenues Climb Out Of The Trough, Boosted By Search, Display, And Video http://crazyfortech.com/online-advertising-revenues-climb-out-of-the-trough-boosted-by-search-display-and-video/ http://crazyfortech.com/online-advertising-revenues-climb-out-of-the-trough-boosted-by-search-display-and-video/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:55:36 +0000 vertical8 http://crazyfortech.com/online-advertising-revenues-climb-out-of-the-trough-boosted-by-search-display-and-video/ The online advertising industry climbed out of last year’s recession in the fourth quarter. New data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PriceWaterhouseCoopers shows that online advertising revenues in the U.S. climbed 2.6 percent annually in the fourth quarter to $6.3 billion, and were up 13.8 percent from the previous quarter

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]]> http://crazyfortech.com/online-advertising-revenues-climb-out-of-the-trough-boosted-by-search-display-and-video/feed/ 0 Venture Funding Doubled To $12.8 Billion In First Quarter http://crazyfortech.com/venture-funding-doubled-to-12-8-billion-in-first-quarter/ http://crazyfortech.com/venture-funding-doubled-to-12-8-billion-in-first-quarter/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:09:10 +0000 blogger http://crazyfortech.com/venture-funding-doubled-to-12-8-billion-in-first-quarter/ Venture capital is flowing once again to startups at a steady pace. During the first quarter of 2010, the total value of venture funding doubled to $12.8 billion from $6 billion a year before, when it was scraping the bottom of the barrel.

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]]> http://crazyfortech.com/venture-funding-doubled-to-12-8-billion-in-first-quarter/feed/ 0 Mobile Data Traffic Expected To Rise 40-Fold Over Next Five Years http://crazyfortech.com/mobile-data-traffic-expected-to-rise-40-fold-over-next-five-years/ http://crazyfortech.com/mobile-data-traffic-expected-to-rise-40-fold-over-next-five-years/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:24:43 +0000 admin http://crazyfortech.com/mobile-data-traffic-expected-to-rise-40-fold-over-next-five-years/ As smartphones like the iPhone and Android take over the mobile Web, the amount of data traffic going over cellular networks is expected to grow 40-fold over the next five years. UK firm Coda Research Consultancy forecasts that in the U.S. alone mobile handset data traffic will grow from 8 terabytes/month this year to 327 terabytes/month in 2015.

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]]> http://crazyfortech.com/mobile-data-traffic-expected-to-rise-40-fold-over-next-five-years/feed/ 0 Flash Player To Come Bundled With Google Chrome, New Browser Plugin API Coming http://crazyfortech.com/flash-player-to-come-bundled-with-google-chrome-new-browser-plugin-api-coming/ http://crazyfortech.com/flash-player-to-come-bundled-with-google-chrome-new-browser-plugin-api-coming/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:07:10 +0000 blogger http://crazyfortech.com/flash-player-to-come-bundled-with-google-chrome-new-browser-plugin-api-coming/ The rumors were true: Adobe and Google are tightening their partnership , seemingly both warily eying Apple in the process – and Mozilla plays a role in this story as well. Concretely, Adobe has announced that its Flash Player will be included with future versions of Google Chrome right out the gate, so users will soon no longer be required to download and install a third-party plugin to make it work with the open source browser built on top of Chromium .

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