Don't make your mobile site a prison

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I've recently been doing a bit of complaining about Gawker and their network of blogs. I'm not talking about their big redesign ... Read More >>

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Generating Genius in the U.K. with young black talent

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On July 14, Google U.K. launched a partnership with Generating Genius at an event in our London office. Google director Adrian ... Read More >>

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Give A Secret Password, Pay $10 And Bevvy Will Get You 50% Off Your Bar Tab

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Los Angeles-based deals site Bevvy launches its permanent deals reservation system today, providing discounts for hardcore club ... Read More >>

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Go FAQ Yourself With Philip Kaplan’s FaqMe

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Blippy and FuckedCompany.com founder Philip Kaplan is at it again with his whimsical and sometimes useful ADHD Labs ... Read More >>

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Gary Vaynerchuk, ‘The Sommelier of Social Media’, Partners With Consmr

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If you're anything like me, this scenario may be somewhat familiar: You're standing in the aisle of your local supermarket, or ... Read More >>

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Google Chrome Extensions: 5 More Handy Tools

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When we brought you our initial list of five useful Chrome extensions for Google+, we asked which tools you, the Mashable ... Read More >>

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Bringing Sand Hill Road to cyberspace

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For years, the world of venture capital was largely shrouded in a veil of secrecy. But in the past 18 months, AngelList has ... Read More >>

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Intel takes movie making social with The Inside Experience

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A young woman held against her will, a mysterious Chinese take-out receipt, a laptop that offers access to YouTube and Facebook ... Read More >>

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PayCloud Does Wireless Loyalty Cards Without The NFC

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The payments space is evolving quickly, and lots of NFC-enabled schemes are brewing, but SparkBase has leaped ahead and is ... Read More >>

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The HTML5 boom is coming. Fast.

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The tech industry's movers and shakers have been saying for months now that the HTML5 mark-up language is very important. New ... Read More >>

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Square what? Dwolla shows the power of cash networks

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While tech darling Square gets all the press, mobile payments start-up Dwolla is enjoying its own impressive growth and just ... Read More >>

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Next Jump puts pieces together to be a deals powerhouse

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Next Jump spent 15 years in stealth mode before it emerged as a power player in the employee discount and rewards business. It ... Read More >>

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Socialize Launches Social SDK To Let Developers Unleash Communities Hiding in Mobile Apps

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In 2008, Daniel R. Odio, Sean Shadmand, and Isaac Mosquera founded a mobile app development startup called PointAbout. The team ... Read More >>

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Say Hello to the New Playlist Player

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While the YouTube embedded single-video player has seen a number of improvements in the past few months, the embedded playlist ... Read More >>

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Webinar On AIR And Sony Tablet Opportunities

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Last week I mentioned the Adobe AIR App Challenge sponsored by Sony. To help you get started, and to learn more about using AIR ... Read More >>

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Barry Diller, IAC Launch Proust, A Social Network For Nostalgic Seniors

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Most social networks are aimed at the young. Not so for Proust.com, a memory-sharing service that collects remembrances of ... Read More >>

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HOW TO: Self Publish Your Book with Amazon’s CreateSpace

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It’s been six years since Amazon acquired CreateSpace, an on-demand publishing platform, and almost four years since they ... Read More >>

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Ride Baby, Ride

It's wild to look at tech company valuations and market cap. As a creative, technologist, and marketer who's bootstrapped his way through a number of deeply intellectually enriching career and entrepreneurial experiences, I can tell you first hand that industry analysts are great, if they actually "know of whence they speak" and do their homework. If they're just phoning it in and rehashing press releases or riding the thermals from blog heat, then buyer beware. Thermal updrafts cool, and everyone enjoys a good climb, but as a Colorado Mountain School climbing instructor once told me: 'Never scale a challenge without gear. Going up is fun. Coming back down can kill you.'

During the tech bubble of the 90's a number of folks asked me about what to buy into. I was a young field service engineer for a quickly growing system integrator at the time, so I was in businesses all over the place. I was often asked what new companies looked promising, what existing ones looked good. Since I was in the business of engineering entire business infrastructures for companies ranging from NPO's to public utilities, city governments and agencies, my mindset about what was hot, and what has legs was a bit different than the "buy sexy now" sentiment that seemed to be the order of the day. Sometimes what was hot had staying power, too, sometimes not. No legs to go the distance. My "buy and hold" methodology wasn't most satisfying for folks looking for a get rich quick thing, but it's not like flipping a house. Hell, these days, flipping a house isn't even like flipping a house used to be.

Over the intervening years, though, my predictions (and those of thousands of others fortunate enough to be able to separate the wheat for the chaff, so to speak) have stood the test of time. Apple market cap and high valuations pegged for pre-ipo companies like Facebook and Twitter might seem unnaturally high, but that's a market thing, not a reality thing. So ride it if you can stomach it. Don't gamble with your lunch money, and don't play if you're afraid to lose. And, IMHO, sink some money in what all the hot current tech companies need to consume to survive, and need to leverage to thrive.

When I was a kid, my best friend was coming into his first inheritances. His dad told him he should sock some away, spend a little - if he wanted, but only a little - and invest. We'd never heard of such a thing: "Invest". He told me his dad explained that that's when you put some of your money in a company in the hopes that you'll make even more money the more successful that company is at doing what they do. His advice to his son: 'think of things you like, know a lot about, or that everyone needs, wants, and/or uses.' What great advice to give a kid. Young imaginations run wild, but the clarity of youth is often more prescient (and more mature than the muddled befuddleness of many adults) than many are comfortable with admitting. Everyone uses toothpaste! Everyone needs a place to live! Kids love movies and bikes and toys! Needless to say, from the outset, he did very well for himself.

In today's seemingly irrationally exuberant tech market, all the kids love their toys. But how much time do they get to play with them? I bet they spend way more time with fundamental, elemental stuff that make up the commodities of their systems' consumption and others that present the greatest conundrums to their continued success. I'd place some eggs in those baskets, after all, everyone needs toothpaste and a place to live.

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Google Refine Gets Fusion Tables Import and More

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Google Refine, formally known as Freebase Gridworks, has been updated to version 2.1. Refine is an open source tool for ... Read More >>

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Internet claims another victim: Borders closes remaining retail stores

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Borders, the second-largest chain of book stores, announced that it will close its 399 remaining retail locations after failing ... Read More >>

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If You Want To Raise Funds, Think About People--Not Money

via Fast Company

Don't lose six-figure funding due to "your strategy." Fundraising is a tough name for one of the most important, and sensitive, ... Read More >>

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How To Hold A Press Conference Via Google

via Fast Company

A Tibetan advocacy group recently held the world's first video press conference via Google+ Hangouts. While the goal might have ... Read More >>

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AmEx Links Up Facebook With Coupon-less Deals, And Lets Merchants Go Social

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American Express is going all in on the daily deals business, striking a deal with Facebook that is similar to the one it ... Read More >>

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How StumbleUpon is winning on the web

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At nearly ten years old, web discovery engine company StumbleUpon is certainly well past the point where websites can attract ... Read More >>

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SupportSpace Lands $12M For Remote Technical Support Services

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SupportSpace, which helps companies provide remote technical support with a range of customer service solutions and a network ... Read More >>

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How Congress’ spectrum bills hurt the tech community

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This week both Republicans and Democrats proposed drafts of mobile spectrum bills that would incent television broadcasters to ... Read More >>

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Now backed by Google, Astrid is thinking big

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Astrid is best known for making a popular web and mobile app that allows users to create to-do lists with social features. But ... Read More >>

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5 Chrome Extensions That Improve Google

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Google+ has launched to great aplomb, but its “project” status means some tools have yet to be developed. While ... Read More >>

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MIT Researchers Crack The Code On Cheaply Printing Solar Cells On Paper, Fabric

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Now panels can be made lightweight, cheaply, and cleanly. It could be the first step in revolutionizing how we generate solar ... Read More >>

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TapIn launches a mobile social network for news

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A startup called Tackable has launched a mobile "crowdsourcing" app for the San Jose Mercury News called TapIn that allows the ... Read More >>

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Imogen Heap’s Tech-Infused Gloves Create Music On the Fly

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Grammy Award-winning musician Imogen Heap used her time on the TED Global stage on Tuesday in Edinburgh, Scotland to not ... Read More >>

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How VMware wants to be the OS for the cloud

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VMware on Tuesday morning launched the latest version of its vSphere virtualization management software, as well as a suite of ... Read More >>

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How Google is built

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If you're curious about the technology behind Google+, you're in luck. The project's technical lead, Google engineer Joseph ... Read More >>

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Google makes a QR code turnaround with new M&A deal

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When Google discontinued support for QR codes in its Places product earlier this year, many saw it as an early death knell for ... Read More >>

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Curators Gone Wild

As real content curation matures, the ability to easily add inline editorials and commentatries will streamline how smart people share stuff.

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Funk: The Little Lifestream of A Day's Thoughts

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Smart TV Platform Flingo Comes Out Of Stealth To Merge Television And The Web

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Founded in 2008 by former BitTorrent employees Ashwin Navin and David Harrison, Flingo has slowly been building its smart TV ... Read More >>

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Create a Hub For Your Band’s Online Presence With Onesheet

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The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would ... Read More >>

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