SXSW has been the place for social media to come onto the world stage over the last few years. This year a host of cool socially oriented companies, leading bloggers and Twitteristas are spreading the word about what is hot.
Today the social media keys to saving are:
1. Swapping – great way to turn your old [...]
Newsweek posted an informative article on what to do with old travel guides today. After you have made the trip they probably collect dust on your bookshelf, in a box in your cellar, under your bed. These are valuable to other people who want to travel. Put these valuable books back into cirulation..SWAP THEM! You would [...]
Amazon has announced that later this year the Kindle Store will start featuring active content produced by developers who can suggest their own prices.
The Kindle Development Kit is already in use by a small group of developers including Electronic Arts and Handmark, which is building a Zagat app. Amazon is looking to expand this base [...]
Mark Titus, a senior at Ohio State, has become more famous for his work as a blogger than his work as a member of it’s basketball team. Mark plays the role as the twelfth man on the Buckeyes squad and rarely plays. If he does he seldom does not register on the box score [...]
Reports are out that Apple is near or has agreed to the acquisition streaming music company LaLa. This is a very interesting development in the game of positioning for the next wave of growth for digital music.
LaLa is a four-year-old start-up based in Palo Alto, California. Lala, unlike Apple’s iTunes, lets users play the [...]
FitnessKeeper, Jason Jacob’s Boston startup that has built the popular GPS-based RunKeeper iPhone application, has raised $400,000 in capital for its first round of seed funding.
I spotted this emerging company earlier this year and posted about how favorable RunKeeper was positioned against Nike+. It was just a few weeks later that I posted again about [...]
In the last month many of my friends and colleagues have been talking about Gazelle.com, the web site that lets you sell or recycle your old electronics and gadgets.
More and more bloggers and the press are picking up on Gazelle.com as well. Just today Fox News featured Gazelle.com. This follows similar press in The New [...]
The Daily Grommet is a site that I learned about earlier this year. I really liked their approach to discovering new products, letting the product developer/merchant tell their story with the Daily Grommet team adding their views and facilitating the purchase. Add in the most contemporary social media tools to allow all of us to [...]
Boston-based Retail Convergence Incorporated (RCI) who operates the rapidly emerging Rue La La web store is being acquired by GSI Commerce (NASDAQ: GSIC), for $180 million in cash and stock and up to $170 million in follow-on payments, depending on RCI’s performance.
Oo La La!!!
RCI owns and operates both Rue La La, a private website that sells [...]
I am a believer in the power of social networking to connect people – friends, family, long lost friends, alumni, co-workers and new acquaintenances.
Once you are networked I am even a more fervent believer in these networks powering the sharing of valuable information – where you are, what you are doing, why you bought that [...]
