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I’ll Gain Uruguay and Lose New York
So I’m sitting in Borders Books here on Long Island, NY, thinking about “trade-offs” while drinking a cup of coffee. In less than 2 weeks, I’m leaving to Montevideo, Uruguay. It’s a bit crazy, being that I recently returned from 9 months in Buenos Aires, Argentina… Now look at me,...
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How to Grow and Maintain Bamboo
Bamboo is an amazing, amazing, amazing plant. It’s the fastest growing grass in the world. It’s purposes are many. But my favorite thing to do is simply watch it sway back and forth in the wind. It actually makes a lovely sound when the wind blows through its slender leaves....
Learning from the WAVEs at the Beach. Seeing the power in movement and change and flow. Never remaining fixed in any situation, institution, or idea. Simply flowing in and out, up and down, side to side. Like the seagull soaring in the sky — effortlessly....
GO visit a NATURE RESERVE on the WEEKEND
This weekend I decided to return to nature reserve that I have visited to the past 3 years here on Long Island, NY. It’s called Wertheim and it’s located in the town of Mastic. There’s really nothing quite like going to the deep forest, a nature reserve, a marsh, or...
Relieve your Stress, Worry, and Confusion with GROUNDING WORK
I like to practice something I call “grounding work” to bring me back to the source, my roots. This goes a long way with relieving stress, confusion, and worry. What’s your grounding work?...
Men With Pens
Drive-by Shooting Special: Denver Motorcycle Lawyer
“I could never live here.” James squinted into the bright sun as he strapped on his helmet, sitting deep on the black rental motorbike between his legs. He’d be glad to get out of the airport parking lot. Denver International was a far cry from the woods of back home. “Ready....
How to Set Your Copywriting Fees and Earn What You’re Worth
Today’s post is a killer, and it comes to us from none other than Dean Rieck, a copywriter I respect for his straightforward attitude and damned smart advice. He’s put together a ton of both in this posts – and it’s all about the money. Enjoy! A couple of recent conversations...
Who Pushes You to Achieve More?
A little-known fact about me is that when it begins to get cold, the holiday season is over, and the New Year is on the horizon, I disappear into the woods for a sacred rite. By “sacred rite”, I mean “crazy camping trip including a hard-core week-long workout hosted by my...
What Freelancers Can Learn From Rodeo Announcers
I recently went to my very first rodeo, and I have to tell you, it’s kind of an awesome time. It’s a roomful of young men showing off what balls of steel they have, and trust me, watching them get thrown around on the back of a horse or a...
Why You Don’t Need to Mimic Someone Else’s Fame
Today’s guest post comes to us from Josh Hanagarne, World’s Strongest Librarian, and a guy I really like as a person. He came online, got whacked by the glittery fame stick in just a few posts and has sat there slightly amazed by it all ever since. Which is pretty...
Startup Weekend - Site Wide Activity
Startup Weekend Crew wrote a new blog post: Presentations Tonight at 7PM
Startup Weekend Crew wrote a new blog post: Presentations Tonight at 7PM Presentations will begin at 7pm. Below is a list of the order teams will present in: Take it Healthy – 1 TravelDice – 2 Smart & Trendy – 3 ...
Serdar çelebi joined the group New York Startup Weekend
Serdar çelebi joined the group New York Startup Weekend ...
mobetterfood wrote on their own wire:
mobetterfood wrote on their own wire: Over the past two years, we have seen real evidence of folks coming together to improve schools here in Oakland, California. ...
mobetterfood posted a new status update:
mobetterfood posted a new status update: I just ran across your site. Great to see folks coming together to build communities...Cheers...
Timothy Ting commented on the blog post Tickets
Timothy Ting commented on the blog post Tickets also been asked who else is coming. You can see who has bought tickets so far here and you can also see who has joined various social ...
Marc Nager wrote a new blog post: Day 2 Candid Interviews!
Marc Nager wrote a new blog post: Day 2 Candid Interviews! “Choose a product. Set your price. Get an alert. Buy” SetPriceAlert.com @setpricealert ...
IDDICTIVE.COM
Are Middle-of-the-Road Web Designers an Endangered Species? (and What Can They Do About It?)
If you’re a web designer please do not take any offence at what I’m about to say but your business model is about to get broken. Don’t get me wrong, great web designers will always find and do great, creative and useful work. I’m talking about the guys and girls in...
UNIKEA: Hacking Flatpack Furniture into Custom Design
I’ve written here before about small companies that piggyback their businesses on the size and brand awareness of another – including three IKEA-related businesses. Pictured above, UNIKEA (unique IKEA), a made-to-order range of furniture from London-based designer Kenyon Yeh, takes this idea in a different direction creating “personal identity from ubiquitous...
Tell Me Why You Started Your Business – Get a Plug
Pic: Flowers&Fleurons Why Did You Start? Thanks to everyone who answered our quick survey a few weeks ago about what topics you’d like us to cover. One of the fave replies was ‘inspiration’ and more particularly what motivates entrepreneurs to start their businesses. I think this is a cracking idea. Personally I’ve learned...
Fiverr: What Would You Do for $5?
Pic: spencermann Five bucks isn’t a lot of money – but it’ll still buy you a bite to eat, a cold beer or even your very own personal monster designed and delivered in sticker form (above). Fiverr.com is a marketplace where people offer to do things for $5 – and it’s suprising...
Packlate: Niche Travel Site with Deep Discounts
You would think that sites like Expedia and TripAdvisor had the online travel world more or less sewn up. But every now and again a new site pushes its head above the parapet and starts to carve out its own little niche. Given the amount of coverage its received in The...
CribSocial: Taking Online Connections Offline
There are, by my count, something like a gazillion social networks. There have been over 2 million created on Ning alone. But that isn’t to say that you can’t start a successful social network project catering to a well-defined niche or by bringing something new to the table. One current trend...
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Mediagazer.com - Media News Aggregated Together
Media new are hot news, but the speed at which everything moves makes keeping track of everything something easier said than done. Algorithms alone can not cope with that. Neither can human editors working on their own.Read moreLearn more about Mediagazer.com in Dataopedia.comFind out how much Mediagazer.com is worth with...
TweetSteal.com - Bargains & Deals On Twitter
A site that claims to put together “the hottest deals and steals on Twitter”, TweetSteal gathers together enough bargains so as to make that affirmation stand true in most people’s eyes. These are aggregated in a host of categories, including “Airfare”, “Vacation” and “Cruise” along with mainstay products like “Shoes”,...
Patch.com - Taking Community Life Online
If you are of these individuals that claim the Internet does nothing but drive people and communities apart, then visiting this website will be a mind-broadening experience. Entitled Patch, we can define it as an online aggregator of the actual activity of any community. By giving the site a look...
TypeWith.me - Create A Document With Others
TypeWith.Me is a new tool that makes online collaboration an easier proposition for all concerned parties. In general terms, the site will empower just anybody to create a document and edit it along with others at the very same time.Read moreLearn more about TypeWith.me in Dataopedia.comFind out how much TypeWith.me...
Diiz.net - A Direct Way To Create YouTube Playlists
Dizz is a new site that plays out a very concise role: letting you create a playlist with your favourite YouTube videos, and then sharing the list with just whomever you want. This is done in as direct a fashion as you can imagine, as all that it takes to...
DaytaApp.com - Chronicle Your Daily Life
Dayta is an iPhone app that will enable you to track your daily life minute by minute. This solution makes it possible for you to register every single thing that you do during the day, and keep a detailed diary of everything that you have done from how many glasses...
OnStartups
Inbound Networking: 42 People I Want To Connect With at SXSW
I’m going to be presenting at the big and boisterous SXSW conference in Austin, Texas this Saturday. I’ll be talking about Inbound Marketing. More specifically, I’ll be talking about some insider lessons we’ve learned building a marketing machine at HubSpot. We’ll even be sharing some relatively confidential data. ...
The 10 Most Tempting Software Startup Categories
I’ve been in the software startup business for a long time. One thing I have found interesting is that amongst first-time software entrepreneurs, certain “patterns” of applications kept recurring. Time and time again, entrepreneurs are tempted by one of these application categories. Not that it’s always a bad...
Why I Wish My Competitors Well And You Should Too
I’m going to start with a story — which includes a confession. When I started my first company, I didn’t start with a grand mission. The idea behind the business wasn’t transformational. It wasn’t going to change the world. Historians weren’t going to write about it after I was dead. And...
Why Venture Capitalists Avoid Innovation: They Like Making Money
The following is a guest post from Andy Singleton, the founder of Assemba. Assembla provides online workspaces for distributed software teams, and helps many startups build their products. Any given innovation is much more likely to fail than to succeed. Innovation as a whole may even be...
9 Quick Tips Learned While Raising $33 Million In Venture Capital
As the market improves, my guess is that many of you will likely be thinking about raising funding for your company. With my latest startup, I’m now a venture-backed startup founder (I’ve raised $33 million in three rounds of capital for my marketing software company). So, I’ve got some...
Prehistoric Steve Jobs Introduces The New Apple iRock Tablet [cartoon]
Though it's easy to get caught up in Apple's new tablet announcement, let's not forget the original idea that sparked the whole thing. It's the iRock -- it transformed how people chiseled. Looking for other startup fanatics? Request access to the OnStartups LinkedIn Group. 100,000+ members and growing daily.Oh, and...
Shalabh Pandey on Ideas. Business, Digital Media, Marketing, StartUps and Influencers. Celebrating achievers and underdogs alike.
The Mad-est TED talk you might have heard
Clifford Stall on Blown up zero volume glass containers, a science experiment and an amazing, possible real life chase story!...
Singapore Government Social Media Initiatives
Some marketing initiatives from government aided institutions in Singapore Click the title for complete post. (twitter.com/shalabhpandey) ...
Augmented Reality marketing campaigns
Showcasing some really cool yet workable Augmented Reality concepts...
We decided the winner of the Final cover layout design. And the winner is... Click the title for complete post. (twitter.com/shalabhpandey) ...
Business Evangelism- meet Malcom Gladwell in Singapore
Meet Malcom Gladwell in Singapore- and a deal for ChasingTheStorm readers Click the title for complete post. (twitter.com/shalabhpandey) ...
Think About It: A Book by me- A Cover design by you
My first book. Help me with the cover. Click the title for complete post. (twitter.com/shalabhpandey) ...
Life Beyond Code
Photo Courtesy: AceFrenzy on Flickr You may have very little use of a single puzzle piece. I can’t argue with that. But let’s explore that a little further… Being likable alone may not be an asset but not being likable may be a liability Having long term relationships alone may not be an...
You’ve probably seen those thirty-minute, late-night television infomercials that tell you a story about a product in all its glory. After about twenty minutes into the commercial, you have been repeatedly told that your life is incomplete without this latest gizmo. You’ve heard others enthusiastically state how the item changed their...
Watch the stories (pun intended)
You can check the time on your cell phone. Or you could buy a reasonably good watch for less than $100. So, why would anyone buy a watch that is north of $2500. Obviously not just to check the time. So, it must be the stories that the watch makers tell about why...
The problem is never the problem…
In this short (around 2-minutes) video, one of my heroes, Tom Peters explains (with examples) why the problem is never the problem, the response to the problem is. Totally loved the video and is embedded below for you: Why did the 2-minute video touch my heart? The way I look at it, the...
Photo Courtesy: Amitabh Bacchan’s blog Criticism is part of life. If you are doing anything significant, there will always be some criticism from someone Why? Simply because you can’t please everyone. A simple thing to do is to handle criticism with grace. Here is an example of how Amitabh Bacchan (who needs no introduction for...
Faster, better and cheaper OR…
I watched the keynote speech for iPad and was fascinated by what I saw. For those of you who missed it, you can now watch it on the Apple website at the link below: http://www.apple.com/ipad/ This post is not about singing praises for iPad but simply to highlight how the iPad has...
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
Riding the train you get a peek into the lives of other people. It’s one of my favorite places to observe, draw, and reflect. Yes, most have their game faces on already, but sometimes you get an intuition of what’s under the mask. I saw this woman a couple weeks...
Glen Beck is NOT Thomas Paine, Not an Innovator
I really hate to post about politics. I am not a pundit. I am a citizen. And the focus of this blog is creativity and innovation. Still, I’ve got something to say. Glen Beck is Not Thomas Paine. Nor is he an innovator. Nor is he a conservative. While visiting the...
The Ultimate Innovator’s Playlist
It occurred to me that Innovators need music as much as, maybe more than, everyone else. Music is an unparalleled source of inspiration for many people, so why would innovators be any different? So, what would the inspired Innovators ultimate playlist be? I’ve created the ultimate playlist for innovators — based on...
Attention Microsoft – Pace of Innovation Matters
There’s been an interesting dust-up in the press recently, having to do with innovation at Microsoft. An ex-Microsoft employee, Dick Brass, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times, basically saying that Microsoft is failing to innovate. He says that in spite of good intentions, great employees, and beaucoup resources...
JD Salinger, Lessons in Creativity & Innovation
I feel compelled to write something about J.D. Salinger. I loved his work and read all of it, which sadly for fans such as I, wasn’t really that much. Beyond Catcher in the Rye, there was Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories, and Raise High the Roombeam Carpenters, and Seymour an Introduction....
A Tribute to Bob’s Big Boy, a Cartoon
Branding is something we are imprinted with at a subconscious level. I saw this guy at Hobgoblins, a quite ordinary guy, but with this poofy quiff. I asked myself why? The result is this drawing. Non-Americans might not get the Bob’s Big Boy reference, click here and you’ll see what...
Austin Startup
Have you been at a bar wanting to order a drink but your waitress or waiter was not around? Odds are that it has happened to you this week. If you are at SXSWi here in Austin, it has happened to you more than once. Busy bars make it...
Gowalla Poised To Overtake Foursquare, Loopt, Cleans Up Twitter.
Welcome to Texas, this is cowboy country and we're bullish on Gowalla....
If you’ve been to SXSW before, you’re well aware of the glut of panels and parties. There is simply too much to do and too many places to be at once. The conference tries to alleviate the hectic nature with some pre-planning, offering the ability to build your own schedule...
Austin Tech Happy Hour on Thursday
Each year our pre-SXSW happy hour is an incredible event, packed with people buzzing about the upcoming interactive festival. Make sure to join your friends in the Austin technology community and come to Molotov from 5:30pm – 8:00pm on March 11th. The festival doesn’t begin till Friday, so this is...
Dis-Cord: Tech Tips for N00bs to Survive SXSW
There’s a little piece of chaos at SXSW for everyone; and every year, some folks navigate the flood of people and sensory overload a bit better than others - the difference between a SXSW veteran and noobie is noticeable at first glance. In an effort to reduce apparent nerd-ism, I’ve...
“We Can Do It”: ATX Women in Tech Unite
Last week an uncommon thing happened, 20 women working in technology got together to talk shop. Yes everyone, women do exist in tech. It’s not all greasy haired programmers and shiny suit wearing entreps. Looking around at any tech party in Austin, you usually think “There are too many damn...
Startup Meme
Absolut Vodka Brings Jay-Z’s NY-Z To Facebook, Thanks To ABSOLUT Fan Page
Well you might be too far to attend Metallica’s concert in Israel at half a price thanks to Facebook and even more as they might not be held in your city, but complain not! At least Jay-Z fans who are spread across the globe. The artist has made up a...
Wow. First they had chewing gums to help you quit smoking, then came sessions to help you with that followed by electronic cigarettes. Well this year there is a new way to quit smoking as the world celebrates the No Smoking Day. Some smart folks out there have created an...
Facebook Campaign Pulls Down Ticket Price For Metallica Concert In Israel
Now this one definitely pulls the value of Metallica’s concert down but it has got their fans thanking Facebook. Apparently the fans of the band in Israel used Facebook to launch a campaign to boycott the soaring prices for their concert scheduled for May 22, 2010. The actual price of...
Leveraging Farmville And The Likes – Not a Bad Idea To Amass Fans On Your Page
Now when your fans increase from 1 to 5 it isn’t worth talking about anything but if a single step of yours pushes you from 100,000 to 500,000, it’s worth every word I write. Microsoft has surged overnight from having 100,000 followers to 500,000. What was their magic spell? Give...
Facebook Pictures Jump to 720P
Pictures should be visible, especially when photography enthusiasts make so much efforts to capture the most inspiring moments and users want to see them bigger. Well yesterday the social network did make the move and pushed the image resolution to 720 pixels. Now we are talking more detail! I...
American Idol Season 9 Wants One Facebook Fan Page, One Twitter Account For All Activity
While it is great to have a fan page for almost every new idea on Facebook or Twitter accounts, it might get very stupid if there different ones for different faces of the same idea. Think of it, if Nokia had different fan pages for its different mobile phones. Or...
First Class Fashionista
Mo’Nique’s Academy Awards Dress Designer
Mo’Nique and husband Sidney Hicks on the Red Carpet of the 2010 Academy Awards. Mo’Nique’s red carpet hairstyle and dress at the 2010 Academy Awards. Who is Mo’Nique’s 2010 Academy Awards Dress Designer? Mo’Nique is wearing an electric blue jersey dress by Tadashi Shoji on the red carpet of the 82nd Annual Academy...
Meryl Streep’s Academy Awards Dress Designer
Meryl Streep on the Red Carpet of the 2010 Academy Awards. Meryl Streep’s red carpet hairstyle and dress at the 2010 Academy Awards. Who is Meryl Streep’s 2010 Academy Awards Dress Designer? Meryl Streep is wearing a dress designed by Chris March, one of my favorite Project Runway contestants, on the red carpet...
Jennifer Lopez’s Academy Awards Dress Designer
Jennifer Lopez on the Red Carpet of the 2010 Academy Awards. Jennifer Lopez’s red carpet hairstyle and dress at the 2010 Academy Awards. Who is Jennifer Lopez’s 2010 Academy Awards Dress Designer? Jennifer Lopez is wearing an Armani Prive gown on the red carpet of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at the...
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Academy Awards Dress Designer
Sarah Jessica Parker on the Red Carpet of the 2010 Academy Awards. Sarah Jessica Parker’s red carpet hairstyle and dress at the 2010 Academy Awards. Who is Sarah Jessica Parker’s 2010 Academy Awards Dress Designer? Sarah Jessica Parker is wearing a Chanel Couture gown on the red carpet of the 82nd Annual Academy...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Academy Awards Dress Designer
Maggie Gyllenhaal on the Red Carpet of the 2010 Academy Awards. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s red carpet hairstyle and dress at the 2010 Academy Awards. Who is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s 2010 Academy Awards Dress Designer? Maggie Gyllenhaal is wearing a tropical floor-length dress by Dries Van Noten on the red carpet of the 82nd Annual Academy...
Kristen Stewart’s Academy Awards Dress Designer
Kristen Stewart on the Red Carpet of the 2010 Academy Awards. Kristen Stewart’s red carpet hairstyle and dress at the 2010 Academy Awards. Who is Kristen Stewart’s 2010 Academy Awards Dress Designer? Kristen Stewart is wearing a gown by Monique Lhuillier on the red carpet of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at...
Startup Africa
Cape Town Entrepreneurship Competition 2010
The city of Cape Town is currently running a competition for entrepreneurs in Biotechnology, Telecom and Media, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Clean Technology, Healthcare and Social Entrepreneurship. The winner of the Cape Town competition will also get a chance to participate in the Global Entrepreneurship competition in Barcelona in...
Africa’s New Frontier – Day 2 – Morning Sessions
9:30 – Plenary Session Topic: Innovative Approaches by African universities to meet Africa’s Development Challenges Speaker: Goolam Mohamedbhai, Secretary General, Association of African Universities Participation in HE is no more then 5% in Africa, while it is as much as 20% in developed countries. Challenges to Higher Education in Africa Coping with huge demand Gender disparity Poort...
Africa’s New Frontier – Afternoon Sessions
13:30 – Society Topic: Educating Generation Next: Expanding higher education for future African leaders What are the connections between higher education and long-term economic growth How can international partnerships expand access to higher education in African countries, and for African students What kind of higher education is most relevant for Africans and Africa How are...
Africa’s New Frontier – Creating Prosperity Through Innovation
I previously wrote about Africa’s New Frontier conference here in Ottawa. I will be live blogging the event, you can refresh the page to get the latest updates. I will cover each session with a different post. 11:00 – Creating Prosperity Through Innovation Speaker: Minister Venancio Massingue, Minister of Science & Technology...
SAFIPA Knowledge Exchange Visit 2010
SAFIPA have announced that they are accepting applications for the 2010 knowledge exchange visit to Finland. I previously wrote about the Knowledge exchange visit: The Governments of Finland and South Africa have been working together in the fields of Science, Technology and Innovation, as part of that mandate SAFIPA is planning a...
Zoopy, a social media and content sharing platform has just redesigned their site. This is the fourth iteration, and over time the site seems to be getting better and better. However, i wonder if the focus on content produced internally by Zoopy over user generated content is wise? New Zoopy...
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Infographic: This is why you're fat, America
The price of unhealthy foods -- soda, butter, beer -- has drastically dropped while prices of healthy foods has increased significantly, according......
F-35 stealth fighter jet delays; transportation earmarks; Europe's biggest solar plant; 10 most expensive transit projects; home superinsulation.......
How to get smarter about your IT investments: Think fusion, not alignment
With thanks to IT services firm Atrion Networking, here's a fresh way to consider your technology strategy. by Heather Clancy...
Caulking: American-made efficiency
A new study reveals much of the materials used in making homes more energy efficient are domestically produced. Could simple retrofits create more......
DARPA solicits research, sensors that demonstrate quantum biology
The Pentagon's cutting-edge research outfit, DARPA, is soliciting research that demonstrates quantum effects in biological processes -- as well as......
Genome sequencing turns to another target: patients with genetic diseases
Two research teams have completely sequenced the genomes of people who suffer from genetic disease -- and have come to a surprising twist in our......
Up and Running
Rats. I was hoping to be able to get to New York for this year’s Small Business Summit 2010, but I’m here now and have to leave today to return to Oregon. This means that I may have tickets for you, for free, if you want to e-mail Palo Alto...
Escape Workshop in a Box Now Available
Pamela Slim is releasing her Escape Workshop in a Box today. That’s a very interesting productized version of Pam’s one-day workshop based on her best-selling Escape From Cubicle Nation book. I’m proud to be part of this project. I connected with Pam as I got started in social media because she’s...
6 Solid Business Lessons From a Doctor’s Office
I just read Lessons Learned As a Result of Running a Business on Pediatric Inc, written by Brandon Betancourt, who runs his wife’s pediatrics practice. This is obviously a practice manager who knows business. And can write. Too bad, for their sakes, that more doctors, lawyers and accountants don’t treat...
Proving that Market Surveys Can Be Fun
It may not be useful, but then few surveys really are, and at least this one is a lot of fun. That’s Survey: 75% of iPhone Users Have a Wholly Inappropriate Relationship With Their Phones as reported by Dan Nosowitz on his Fast Company blog. The survey in question was done...
About Women as World’s Biggest Market
Hmmm . Sylvia Ann Hewlett posts Why Women Are the Biggest Emerging Market on the Harvard Business Review site today. She has some convincing statistics: Women leaders are the new power behind the global economy, proclaims Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s announcement of its second annual webcast celebrating International Women’s Day. In developing...
How Do You Rate for the Explainability Factor?
I think this is a quick clue to marketability: how quickly can you explain what your business does? Can you do it in 15 seconds? Can you do it in 25 words or less? Two- and three-word explanations generally mean marketing is relatively easy: gourmet restaurant. Limo service. Web-based to-do list....
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VentureBeat
“How to be Black” grabs SXSW audience
Baratunde Thurston is The Onion’s Web and Politics editor. Thurston — best known as @baratunde on Twitter — is a comedian who understands the power of bar charts. Sunday afternoon at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, Thurston gave a just-the-right-amount-of-edgy talk on the Internet’s influence on black...
Five ways mobile games differ from apps
Games are apps, in theory. In practice, they’re a special kind of app. That’s what mobile analytics firm Motally learned after its first year providing in-game statistics for developers to use in defining or refining their products. Motally’s app tools can tell, for example, how long a gamer spent on...
Palm’s move to grab high-end 3-D games for its phones
The strategic value of gamers isn’t lost on Palm, which is struggling to establish itself in the smartphone market. Games are the most popular applications on both the iPhone and Google Android phones, and so now Palm is making its own push to get more games on its smartphones. Last week, Palm...
Apple fans estimate 120,000 iPads sold on first day
A group of stock investors who hang out at the members-only AAPL Sanity Board forum got together to guesstimate how many iPad tablet computers Apple had sold on Friday. The group compared their own order numbers from the Apple Store, then extrapolated from the timestamps and confirmation serial numbers for 48...
Week in review: Modern Warfare 2’s Stimulus Package, OnLive’s launch date
Here’s our roundup of the week’s business and tech news. First, the most popular stories published in the last seven days: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 announces Stimulus Package for Xbox Live — Activision announced during the Game Developers Conference that “the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus...
Spawn Labs lets you play your console games on the run (video)
Call it Slingbox for games. Spawn Labs lets you take a console game and play it over the web on a laptop or a computer. As the Slingbox does with video, you can place shift your games and play them in high-definition on any computer, said David Wilson, chief executive at...
StartUpArabia
DemoCamp Dubai 5 – March 8th 2010 – The Agenda
As previously announced, the fifth DemoCamp Dubai will be taking place today at the Dubai Knowledge Village Auditorium on March 8th 2010 at 6:30PM. The following six demos will be taking place at the event: Hyzonia.com: a web platform for creating, customizing, publishing games and sending dynamic ads within games, to be played by...
What major obstacle did you face while looking to fund your project? [Poll Results]
In the latest poll on StartUpArabia, the question that was addressed to the entrepreneur readers was: What major obstacle did you face while looking to fund your project? The result of reader voting came out as follows: Out of 89 readers who responded to the poll: - 37% of them responded that it was...
Arab World: Current State Of The Internet & Future Growth
Over the past few days, a number of articles sprung up about reports and predictions that have been announced by various parties, analyzing where the Internet stands today in the Arab world, and where they see it a few years from now. Here is a quick straight-forward round-up of these opinions,...
Wajhy, Create Your Own Arab Avatar
Over the past years, every now and then a new avatar creation tool would pop up from somewhere, to let internet users create avatars of theirs in the form of South Park characters, Lego men and women, and the list continues; each time people would flock to the new service,...
Saot Al Arab, What Would You Do If You Were The Leader?
Saot Al Arab (The voice of Arabs) is an interesting and ambitious non-profit project that was recently launched for the Arab world, asking visitors what they would do if they were in the leader’s chair, what would be the first project they would launch. The idea of course is to give...
DemoCamp Dubai 5 – March 8th 2010 – DKV Auditorium
After over a year since its last edition, DemoCamp Dubai is back for its fifth edition, and hoping to be even bigger than its previous editions. The Dubai-based launch event for new products, technologies and companies will be taking place at the Dubai Knowledge Village Auditorium on March 8th 2010 at...
The Next Women
Figures Show that Going Local may be The Best Business Model
As many startups are looking frantically what the best business model could be for a prosperous future, recent figures show that going local may be the best way if one wants to attract advertisers to its business. Even though the figures are US based, one may assume that other markets...
The 11 Points Action Plan for Bootstrapping your Startup
While getting funding is on top of the agenda for many startup entrepreneurs, it does not mean that bootstrapping your company should be ignored. Christopher Fogg, the Chairman of Connect London, opened his first formal incubator in 1998 and has now started a total of 4 business incubators. He is...
The 7 Rules of Business Discipline to Succeed in Business
Experienced entrepreneur Emma Wimhurst of Diva Cosmetics, who sold her business after which she started to advise startups how to grow their business, spoke today at International Womens’ Day at the Women Unlimited Conference in London, organized by Julie Hall. She shared her rules of business discipline for entrepreneurs to...
Brazil Means Business Symposium – A 360 Degree View of an Emerging Economy
AMSTERDAM – Joana Picq, COO of The NextWomen will be speaking at the first edition of the Brazil Means Business Symposium, that will take place March 29th 2010, in Holland, showcasing some of the fastest growing Brazilian companies in the IT and Bio/Pharma sectors. If you are based in Holland...
Bootlaw’s Courtroom Dramas and 7 Top Tips to Avoid Legal Trouble
This is a post in by Misae Richwoods, The NextWomen event reporter and a previous Golden Web Award winner who helps start ups, SMEs and independent professionals market themselves via MRMedia Group. The story goes like this. Its a legal nightmare. EDS have a very enthusiastic salesman. He speaks to...
Female Entrepreneur Startup Interview: “The MBA was the Stamp of Approval for my Fundraising”
Swiss born female entrepreneur Virginia Raemy is fairly relaxed about her new role as founder of start-up Talentpuzzle. “Its fun, I am enjoying it, I can be creative, and I can take full responsibility, and have no boss”. She has reason to be content. She just received a couple of hundred...
Startup Houston
Hopefully everyone that is going to SXSW has confirmed places to stay, picked panels and parties and broken in those comfortable shoes (can’t over emphasize that enough) and those that are staying here have unfollowed their Austin-bound friends and blocked the hashtag #SXSW for the next week. The comments of...
Three Tech Startup Events This Week (Plus a Bonus Event)
Even if you’re not planning on coming to Austin for SXSW, you should plan on coming to the Houston@SXSW Pre-party at Caroline Collective Date: Tuesday March 9, 2010 Time: 6:00pm – 9:30pm Location: Caroline Collective 4820 Caroline Houston, Texas 77004 RSVP on Facebook Since that starts at 6, you can then go to the monthly...
Houston@SXSW tips and party...
Open Mixer with the Houston Innovation Initiative Tonight
The Houston Innovation Initiative is a group started by Houston Council Member Jarvis Johnson and Yvette Golan of World Innova and here is a quick summary of what they are all about: The Houston Innovation Initiative (HII) joins government leaders focused on solving city challenges to the technology and innovation leaders...
StartupHouston LiveBlog of TiE Houston Legal Workshop
Join us as StartupHouston liveblogs the TiE Houston Legal Workshop that offers advice on how to protect your Small Business Intellectual Property and More. ...
FreeTimeStudios Launches new SlapHappy game for iPhone
. FreeTimeStudios, an independent mobile game development studio founded by Nathan Eror and headquartered in Houston, TX, announced yesterday that their new game, SlapHappy, is now available via the iTunes Store for an introductory price of 99 cents. For those of you not aware, Nathan has been very active in Houston’s development...