The Net Neutrality debate

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Net Neutrality allows everyone to compete on a level playing field and is the reason that the Internet is a force for economic innovation, civic participation and free speech. Without Net Neautrality telephone and cable companies can decide how fast certain content is delivered to you, what you do, where ...

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MidVentures –> is very hungry

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Great to meet Geoff and the guys over at midventures yesterday. What was to be a drop in "say hello' turned into hours of brainstorming and sketching on these really neat stick-it white boards (you can print on them too for u mkt wizards) They are cooking up some good stuff...to ...

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Why I Love/Hate Twitter

Friday, November 7th, 2008

original photo via CC Champan - Flickr Damn it twitter! Such a great tool but sometimes fails miserably when you need it. Much of the advanced functionality (i.e. tracking) seems to never work. Tracking allows you to receive messages based on keywords you are "tracking," very similar to Google news alerts. ...

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need a cool T?

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Another great Chicago web success story - our friends at Threadless. No Advertising No Professional Designers No Sales Force No Retail Distribution = $30m REVENUE & "most innovative small co. in America." Great going guys. No related posts.

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The Long Tail - online video

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

The web used to be text for the most part. Yes, there were some photos and animations, but over the past 2 decades it was dominated by text - paper online. Hence, the reason many print media companies supplemented their papers & magazines with online material (which is never ...

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cybernomads

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

I love what Jooce is doing for the 500M on this planet who rely on Internet cafe's as their sole source to the web. No related posts.

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Power of Pipes

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Yahoo pipes is so powerful I'm still grasping exactly how I want to use it. Yahoo will monitor any website or feed, filter the content based on your criteria, and then have it delivered to you however you want. Via email, feed reader, or even a phone call. It is ...

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Time for “The Big Switch”

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

I just cracked this book, and I'm ADDICTED. The world IS becoming one big interconnected computer, and it's mind blowing. Computing performance and broadband connectivity is now a UTILITY, one that is essential to sustaining the global economy, & life! Our technological capacity is doubling every decade (READ Kurzweil), and ...

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Empowering Creative Intellectuals

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I just got wind of this site, which is designed to enable people (you) to find, learn, create, and share new ideas. I'm already a fan of ted, which is a site that posts videos of great speeches from the world's great leaders, but I'm really interested to see if ...

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