John Furrier
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Boston Startup Scene – Serious "Out-Migration" Already Happened
A story today caught my attention. Post titled "Paul Graham on Why Boston Should Worry About Its Future as a Tech Hub—Says Region Focuses On Ideas, Not Startups". The biggest difference between Boston and Silicon Valley is the way startup culture pervades the Valley. The Valley is for startups what LA is for movies. It’s ...
Monkey in your old High School Cliq
The world of social sites are very overwhelming at this time. Two services are in beta right now to help you organize them. The first one is that adorable little creature known as a monkey. Well actually it’s Chi.mp. The second one is your old High School cliq. Not really, but it’s called Cliqset. I ...
Free Ride Era is Ending
The free ride of Web 2.0 is coming to an end. As entrepreneurs are scrambling to make their startup or idea profitable, the user of the free services are outing them. Yet another questionable business practice: charging users to be "featured"? I don’t actually remember asking about becoming a featured user on TwitterCounter, aside from ...
Mohammed Peerbhoy – Yahoo! paid for this?
The news is just breaking out of India currently, but coming to the surface is news that Yahoo! may have been responsible for training of the media chief in the Mumbai attacks. While the below quote states he was a former Yahoo! employee … A former Yahoo engineer named Mohammed Peerbhoy, is under custody in ...
Topps 3D Live Baseball Card – Not Your Father’s Baseball Card
UPDATE: They do not have a Mac version ready yet! PC version only! Mac version is suppose to be out in April according to the information. For $2, I figured this had to be fun to really try. Before you head out and grab that $2 pack of baseball cards, you might want to read ...
MicroPlaza Invites Are HERE!
MicroPlaza, the service that was written about here, is giving away a limited number of invites for our readers. Just go to this URL and sign up! No time to read our older post? Forgot what they do or show you? Here is an example of the public timeline that I just took a picture ...
Google Docs: Security Flubs and Eternal Beta
Richard Devries at his Slashdot Journal chronicled an issue he had with his company’s usage of Google Documents, an issue that’s received a certain degree of attention on Techmeme today: We can share documents with users within our domain, as well as @gmail.com accounts or other Apps-domains. About three weeks ago, we discovered that some ...
Reality Check vs Fantasy and Rumors
I was intrigued by Techmeme moments ago where a climbing story is about another AOL layoff this week. Once I went to that story, I see it’s nothing but an attempt to snag some traffic over the weekend. The post is based on an ex-AOLer who just happens to leak a memo about a child ...
Cursebird Is Realtime Twitter People Watching
Cursebird is the latest entry into the world of twitter apps. This latest twitter app lists real time curse words, and as the site says in it’s description …. Cursebird is a real-time feed of people swearing on Twitter. You can find some pretty funny items, such as the one I highlighed in this stream ...
Six Degrees Of Social Separation
There are supposedly six people that separate you from any particular person, or so the story goes. Keeping that in mind, it is a Friday which is a pretty slow news day, and I now present the various six degrees of separation as applied to the social web. The first degree will start off as ...
