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On Monday, Jason and I are attending the What’s Next: DC Conference, which prides itself on brainstorming, case studies, energy, networking and strategy, not your normal run of the mill conference. Their tag line says it all, “we’ve cut the fat from your typical bloated business conference.” The day will be jammed packed with decisions [...]

In honor of the movie “The Social Network” aka the Facebook Movie winning at the Golden Globes, this week’s theme is Facebook. Every article has something about Facebook. Enjoy the rest of your Friday and have a great weekend! LivingSocial’s Amazon deal hits over 1 Million Sold In the daily deal wars, Groupon usually comes [...]

Basically, Etsy is a craft fair for the Internet and a place where people set up online shops to sell handmade and vintage items. Often called the eBay for arts and crafts, Esty is a great place to shop for shabby chic, crafty, vintage, handmade, geek, and counter culture things. Not everyone shares this sense [...]

Remember the “where’s the beef?” lady? Last week, we wrote an article about Quora and the “where’s the beef?” lady. What do these two things have in common? During the 1980’s Wendy’s used the “where’s the beef?” commercial to that their burgers had more value and more beef than its competitors. Fast-forward to now. The [...]

Happy Friday! Has snow hit 49 states this week and everyone got excited on the dates 1/11/11. In the marketing and social media world, there has been a lot of buzz about Quora and the Verizon’s iPhone. 10 Burning Questions about the Verizon’s iPhone For about a year, there have been rumors that the iPhone [...]

With all of these social networks and online communities popping up everywhere, we need to start asking, “Where’s the beef?” What’s in it for people who will use them? Okay, we might need to back up a bit. The catch phrase “where’s the beef?” comes from a 1984 Wendy’s TV commercial where three little old [...]

Taking “is there an app for that?” to a new level, Apple has opened the Mac App Store.  Long story short, it’s the desktop version of the app store on the iOS systems for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The app store gives people the exact same process for finding, buying and installing apps. [...]

Since it’s the New Year, this week everything was new. A week of a new Congress, new White House Chief of Staff, new books, new electronics, and hopefully a new you (if you haven’t already broken those New Year’s resolutions). What You Missed From CES 2011 Press Day As people get back to the week [...]

With over 500 million users (plus countless more websites which are integrated with them) Facebook is one of the most important social platforms around. If you have a business, you can create a page so people can find and interact with you there. People can “like” your page and content, and when they do this, [...]

2010 is so over, lets start off 2011 right by looking at some bright ideas for the future. 1.  Real Time Search – If it’s happening right now on the internet, real time search will help you find it. As more content is being shared via social networks, there will be a greater need for [...]