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You will be your first investor.  This is not: you should be your first investor,  you might be your first investor,  it would be nice if you were the first investor.  This is: you will be your first investor. Because … Continue reading →

Based on Wednesday’s Hoboken Tech Meetup, it appears that a Hoboken coworking space is moving closer to reality.

Hearing angel investor David S. Rose (@davidsrose) speak last night at Hoboken Tech Meetup was the equivalent to speed reading a course in startup financing, marketing, and management in under an hour. Rose has a lot to say, and he … Continue reading →

I admit to being more than a little envious of those hackers who made creative use of New York City’s publicly available databases for the BigApps 2.0 competition. Is there a way that non-programmers can share vicariously in the fun … Continue reading →

The Google Public Data Explorer is a visualization app that brings life to public policy data (or really any statistics you have) through animation. Google picked up the software when it purchased Trendalyzer in 2007. You may a remember a … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s Q&A session at the House Communications and Internet Subcommittee felt a little bit mockumentary, a little bit reality TV show with a few movie stars making appearances. Yes, the Republicans were playing “we’re just folks”, taking on the bumbling … Continue reading →

Casa Mila, Barcelona/Wikimedia Australian telco rejects femtocell … Intel CEO talks wireless electric lamp … Cisco’s WiFi fail at MWC … Vodafone to avoid closed vertically-integrated systems … Android booth has awesome slide … Euro operators are over-regulated …  HTC Desire S runs … Continue reading →

Bantam Live just announced that they had been acquired by Constant Contact, the e-mail marketing company. We reviewed Bantam Live’s cloud-based social CRM product in October. We thought it was a solid solution for small businesses looking to centralize their Excel-based … Continue reading →

Mobile World Congress is happening now in Barcelona. As much as we’d like to buy our paella salads at the La Boqueria before a day on the trade show floor, the editorial team is instead stuck here in NJ. To … Continue reading →

One of the corporate blogs I review on occasion is Cisco’s The Platform. In a post published on Sunday, and in time for the press deluge coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Cisco pre-announced its new “framework” … Continue reading →