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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
AntHillz.com is a Philadelphia startup looking to fulfill the desire of many business professional by providing a network of trusted contacts. The Key to achieving this goal lies in necessity of all professionals to “write recommendations of each other’s work before they can connect.” AntHillz.com hopes to reinstill the necessity of reliable connections, by accentuating [...]
Tags: AntHillz, business, LinkedIn, Social Networking
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Feedburner is a web 2.0 news feed management system. Founded in 2004, Feedburner provides tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web masters to provide unique RSS feeds. Google purchased Feedburner in 2007 for 100 million, and subsequently eliminated the fees on many of Feedburners pay programs. An interview with Dick Costolo, prompted [...]
Tags: feedburner
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Just when you though your first life was too much to handle…they offered you a second one. Second Life embodies the fantasies of its users; your second life is everything you want it to be. Yet, amoung numerous opportunites to seek adventure and run a business, second life offers people the opportunity to hide behind a mask [...]
Tags: cell, divorce, MMO, Second Life, Vollee
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
In the world of Microloans two notable players have arrived Kiva and Microplace. At first glance no reasonable distinction can be made between them, but after a little digging some differences in both “how” and “why” they function emerge. In terms of a business model, the Flannerys founded Kiva as a non-profit internet microfinance investing site [...]
Tags: Kiva, microfinance, MicroPlace
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
With the advent of Ebay’s shift in corporate leadership last week, changes seemed inevitable for the ailing internet giant. In a press conference, new CEO John Donahue noted that Ebay would be shifting its focus away from traditional auctions to fixed prices sales composing 40% of the money generated in the marketplace. In addition, [...]
Tags: Auction, ebaY, Saving, Strike
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