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Who pays for the data? Why websites will start to charge

More and more data is being produced and consumed on the internet everyday as people become more mobile and more social. This data is paid for by the consumer to their provider whether it’s an ISP or their mobile carrier they pay for data download. Vast amounts of data we consume everyday comes from free ……

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Cory Doctorow | carpool | science fiction | creative commons | ebooks | computers

Cory Doctorow interviewed by Robert Llewellyn makes some interesting insights into the word of publishing, ebooks, computers, science fiction and the web. Great video about 26 minutes long.

Where does Google+ sit in my social network ladder?

There are many social networks in various forms and guises including professional social networks and I am a member of Foursquare, Gowalla, Ushi, Orkut, Weibo, Suosa and many others that have come and gone, but the social networks I use on a daily basis are Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN, and Google+. I use these networks daily as I ……

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Vinod Khosla: ignore the experts & trust your vision [VIDEO]

Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla of khosla ventures was interviewed(5min 11sec) by Venture Beat as always Vinod gives a straight answer for advice to entrepreneurs .

Over 1 million on Empire Avenue

Today, I went over the 1 million net wealth on Empire Avenue. It took 4 months with an off and on approach when I had a few spare minutes. Empire Avenue is a social network game where you invest in people rather than stocks (although some are companies) with Eaves, a digital currency although you ……

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Google+ the new place to be in social networks

Google+ is the new social network in town, a place where you can share information with a community. A place where you can easily opt people in and out of interests or groups called ‘circles’ which you can name. You can filter content you read by looking at one circle or you can see everything ……

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LinkedIN needs to start innovating

Today, LinkedIN once again changed the icons for group notifications for the 2nd or 3rd time in recent months and this is were its starts to be apparent that they seem to have lost their way. With the IPO and relative little innovation of its product it seems LinkedIN is asleep at the wheel.

IPO has ……

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Businesses are treating social media like a webpage in the mid-1990's

Social media is currently in the same place webpages where in the mid-1990′s where businesses where putting up their business webpage and expecting people to come and start buying. It wasn’t until businesses realised they needed to promote their website and integrate it with their existing marketing that their webpages started generating emails, calls and ……

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How much capital do you need for a startup?

Jason Calacanis has the answer in his recent post “How Much Money Should a Startup Have in the Bank?” at launch.is. Apparently, you need 18 months of operating capital or ‘runway’. 18 months may seem a long time for a startup company but if you working day and night to get your company and project ……

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Having problems with Wordpress 3.2.1? Remember to upgrade your plugins.

Recently, I upgraded WordPress on this blog and my other websites to WordPress 3.2.1 and then start having issues and problems with linking and posting. Essentially, if I linked it would just refresh and the post would be blank. So, I had a think about it and then released – I haven’t upgraded the plugins. ……

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