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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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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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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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Six Link Sunday #4 | China, Crowdsourcing, Startups, Social Media, Retailers, Small Agencies

Six links from the week of reading and tweeting

China’s Businesses Boom, But Its Brands Don’t | NPR http://n.pr/ktaReu
Chinese companies booming at home and selling abroad through distributors but can’t seem to make a name for themselves.

Crowdsourcing: Tapping a world of ideas | Scoop NZ http://bit.ly/lro5UA
Excerpt: “Crowdsourcing is a call to the masses ……

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Why your web presence is like a tattoo

Recently I was chatting over Facebook chat with Peter Davison (@ourmaninsh) about social and digital persona’s and brands people have and it occurred to me that whatever you post on the web is similar to a tattoo. Once you place something out there in the internet be it a blog post, comment, flickr picture or ……

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Social (Media) - How to formulate your strategy

Today on twitter I saw a link to Design Victoria Social Media Breakfast presentation slides. It is probably the best set of slides I have seen on how, what, why of formulating a social (media) strategy for small to medium (SME) business.

Design Victoria Social Media Breakfast

View more presentations from Emily Doig/social media ……

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Quora - good, bad & the ugly

I have been using Quora for a few weeks now and have enjoyed the interface and interaction between people.

GOOD

The ability to ask questions that can be very broad or can be very focused in topic area.
Voting up and down – giving power to people
Seeing who is currently answering the question as it can save ……

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Social Infographic - Facebook vs twitter

Digital Surgeons recently posted an infographic – Facebook vs Twitter. The most interesting data is the differences between Age Group, Education, mobile logins and brand followers. Both sets of users(fb and twitter) have a low percentage of brand following, however it would be interesting to see the data on word of mouth/mentions of brands that occurs ……

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