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Web 2.0 Representation in the Obama Administration
We are not 4 full days into the Obama transition period and already three web executives have made theoir way into the mix in some kind of advisory role. Yesterday, we covered the naming of Julius Genachowski of Launchbox Digital and Sonal Shah of Google.org to the transition team. Today, the New York Times points…
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Obama Names Googler and Launchbox Digital Cofounder to Transition Team
In a move that demonstrates a commitment to web technology, President-elect Barack Obama has named a Google executive and a Launchbox Digital cofounder to his transition team. Julius Genachowski, from Launchbox Digital a DC-based web incubator investment company in the order of YCombinator and Techstars, IAC and Rock Creek Ventures comes to the team with…
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Gary Vaynerchuck Challenges the Current Marketing Mindset in a Down Economy
Tremendous insight from Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary.TV. This man may be the most brilliant marketing mind of our time. I’m pleased to call him a friend. Early apologies for some of Gary’s language as he is obviously passionate and fired up. Don’t let the language scare you away His message is very important. Thanks also…
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What McCain-Feingold Did For Social Media in the Election
Now that the election is over and we have an understanding of the numbers that were put up by both campaigns, I think we can safely say that the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill both killed the McCain campaign and reinforced social media at the helm of communications for the future. Let me explain. There…
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Congratulations, President Obama
The 44th President of the United States of America Photo by jmtimages
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EXCLUSIVE: Tropicana Covers Election Day Twittering
There are a couple of election related Twitter projects going on including Twitter Vote Report, which we covered the other day. Not on our radar at the time, however, was an interesting project from Tropicana that will take the expected high velocity Twitter coverage of the election all day and present it in a unique…
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Blueprint for Change: Technology
If I have not made it clear enough so far, this is why I have voted for Barack Obama. The internet industry is certainly affected by the economy, but it is one of the last sectors that still shows signs of growth and stability. During a down economy, it is important to capitalize in the…
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Creative Ideas for Capital
A great side-effect of entrepreneurs’ optimism in tough times is creativity. At our OpenCoffeeDC last week, discussions got lively when talk turned to bootstrapping — not just self-funding, but all sorts of alternatives for producing live-giving capital and conserving what you do have. Time to put on your thinking caps. Have you gone through the…
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Blackberry Provides a Mobile Device Too!
Since the iPhone came out a year and a half ago, mobile app development has gone into an iPhone-only mode of development. Mostly. The web interface has made it much more conducive to providing a real rich environment for web applications and now that the iPhone 3G has arrived, apps are being produced left and…