Great line up of speakers today @ TEDxBoston. You can see it here through livestreaming.
Check out MassChallenge, SCVNGR, Bill Warner and Scott Kirsner’s Ted Talks. There is more too but these are really interesting to me.
Boston and New England is an innovation hub. Great to see this showcased within the TED community.
Yesterday we announced to the members of Swaptree that we have acquired Swap.com. This is an important development for a lot of reasons.
First, the essence of what our members do when they are on our site is very simple, they “swap.” We are committed to continuing to grow our platform for books, music, movies and [...]
The story of Steven Ortiz, who used the timeless concept of “swapping” to get a Porsche, was the feature story on CBS Early Show this morning. Rebecca Jarvis reported on the very cool story.
Swapping has always been a great way to swap things you have for things you want. Swaptree was featured as one of the [...]
Marty Cagan is a master of product management. Marty put his skills to work running product at Netscape and eBay. We are all fortunate that Marty is now spreading the word about product management with his book Inspired, and his advisory and consulting practice. This labor of love has spread the gospel on how to [...]
What a big week for baseball. The passing of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Big Papi winning the “home run derby.” The All Star Game.
I love baseball and I am a lifelong fan of the “seven-time” World Champion Red Sox. How about that for a description of the Red Sox! Based on a life of cheering [...]
Rachel Botsman is the co-author of the upcoming book What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Harper Business, October 2010). Rachel has authored this book after years of research. Rachel was featured recenthly at TED where she spoke on the power of collaboration and sharing through current and emerging technologies, and on how [...]
Boston is a unique city. It has a long history by America’s standards. This history has played a big role in the establishment of so many educational institutions from the earliest grades through college. People flock from across the world to be educated here. This educational platform has spawned enormous research, product development, advancements in [...]
Swaptree was featured in a segment on saving money this morning. The advent of swapping on the Internet is reinventing this age old way of exchanging things. Check out the video here: Swapping On The Internet
We are fortunate to be independent. We are fortunate to be free. We are fotunate to be safe. None of this has come for free…many have paid the ultimate price in sacrifice for this. We should remember this as we enjoy this special American holiday. What better way to kick it off than with the [...]
Livingston Taylor is a singer songwriter who is a member of the famous Taylor musical family. I first got introduced to Livingston at one of his concerts back in 1981. Since then I have attended a number of his concerts in many places across New England. Livingston’s musical style is surely close to that of [...]
