The Best of 2007

December 24, 2007

Hey everyone. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, happy Winter’s solstice, Kwanzaa and Chanukah. (Yes I know that Chanukah and the solstice are passed, but bear with me).
In light of Darren’s best of 2007, I figured I would follow suit.
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Comments: 2086
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Visits: 558k
RSS Subscribers: 900+

In earlier days, I might be tempted to feel down about [...]

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Carnival of Entrepreneurs #39: December 23, 2007

December 24, 2007

Welcome to the December 23, 2007 edition of carnival of entrepreneurs.
Tracy Coenen presents Can you really avoid an IRS audit? (Or at least reduce your chances?) posted at FRAUDfiles.
Daniel Scocco presents All the Business Acronyms You Need to Know posted at Innovation Zen.
David presents Factoring, another way to get money for your business when banks [...]

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Convergencia de la Televisión y la Internet

December 17, 2007

La muestra más reciente de la convergencia de la televisión y la Internet la podemos encontrar en el siguiente gráfico de Búsquedas Calientes de Google Trends.

Este gráfico corresponde al Viernes 14 de Diciembre, durante la transmisión del programa “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” (traducción: “No te olvides la letra”) en la cadena Fox.
El programa consiste en [...]

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More of the Same in 2008; Or: We ain’t no Seesmic

December 17, 2007

It’s Monday morning and I’m sitting here at Reagan National Airport awaiting a flight to Toronto. This is my last business trip of 2007 and… when I return home on Wednesday, I’m only looking at another two business days before I entirely knock off for the year. I’ll probably blog, but no b5media (if I [...]

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Facebook se enfrenta a OpenSocial

December 16, 2007

Facebook ha decidido ofrecer su plataforma de programación al resto de los networks sociales, picándole adelante a Google y su esperado OpenSocial.
Google OpenSocial surgió como una respuesta a la Plataforma Facebook, ofreciéndole al resto de los networks sociales la oportunidad de crear aplicaciones que pudieran inter-operar entre los distintos sitios. Pero OpenSocial todavía no está [...]

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Ask Takes Your Privacy Seriously

December 12, 2007

There was an old story I was told as a kid about boiling a frog to death. As the story goes, you can’t boil a frog to death by dropping him in a pot of boiling water. But put him in cool water and bring the water to a boil, and he won’t know the [...]

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Marc Orchant, a Hero to Many

December 9, 2007

All this week, since I heard about the massive coronary that my friend, Marc Orchant, suffered last Sunday morning, I’ve been following the progress reports that Oliver Starr has been posting for the entire blogosphere.
Unfortunately, the news tonight is not good. Marc has passed on from this earth leaving many of us on this earth [...]

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Operation: 1000 Subscribers

December 8, 2007

There is a major milestone approaching here at Technosailor, and since I don’t really feel like writing anything of any real substance tonight, I figure now would be a good time to point out that we are approaching 1000 RSS subscribers here at Technosailor. In fact, I’ve made it easier than ever to subscribe to [...]

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Now is Gone is Here

December 8, 2007

Good friend of mine and sometimes-columnist here at Technosailor, Geoff Livingston, is celebrating the launch of Now is Gone, the book he’s been working on for quite some time (it also has a blog associated with it as any good new media book does). Now is Gone is described as a “Primer on New Media [...]

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La Privacidad como Moneda

December 7, 2007

Alex Rudloff escribe un interesante artículo (en inglés) sobre el uso de nuestra privacidad como moneda, pudiendo cada quien intercambiar partes de su privacidad por servicios.
De esta forma podemos indicarle a Facebook nuestra fecha de cumpleaños a cambio de que nuestros amigos estén al tanto y puedan felicitarnos. A mint podemos contarle nuestros hábitos de [...]

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Zuckerberg, Quit Insulting Our Intelligence

December 5, 2007

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook has taken one more step in the Beacon war. As we’ve noted, Facebook is wrong to not fully make Beacon an opt-in program, partner companies are wrong for releasing customer data to Facebook and by the way I made a Firefox extension that will help consumers know [...]

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