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Very creative and seasonal design on this bicycle in New York City.  Sleigh design helps power through those snowy days.

Boston Business Journal has announced the 2009 40 Under 40 list.  Congrats to many friends on this years list that include:  Mike Rowan (Co-Founder and CTO of RatePoint), Sheila Marcelo (Founder and CEO of Care.Com), Arthur Pappas (C0-Founder and CEO of Bullhorn), Jeremiah Johnson (General Counsel of Sedo).  The full list is as follows:
1.     Anjali [...]

Runkeeper is a cool app for the iPhone and web site, I featured it recently in a post right here on this blog.  I think these Boston guys have done a great job leveraging the GPS capability, function and community building that is possible with the iPhone.
Just heard today that RunKeeper was named a Top [...]

It is great to learn that even in this troubled economy that an industry near and dear to my heart, Internet & Marketing,  accounted for $28B in gross domestic product last year across New England.  In addition, the sector covers 2,100 companies employing a collective 69,000 people.  This is impressive.
What is even more impressive is [...]

What a week in the smart phone market.
The Palm Pre on sale Saturday and the excitement was iPhone-like.  Functionality looked great.  Nothing revolutionary but a great looking smart phone.  One little problem…only nineteen applications though.  What?
The new iPhones were announced yesterday at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.  Some new functionality like video, more [...]

I believe Twitter is a technology service that is transformational.  I believe this for many reasons.  Twitter comes to the cover of Time this week with avery interesting article worth the read:  http://tinyurl.com/p2j27l

The NHL kicked off their use of Twitter with a “Tweetup” celebration on the opening night of the NHL playoffs on April 15.  That night over 100 Twitter personas gathered at the NHL Store in New York to watch playoff games.  The NHL Tweet Up generated activity on Twitter for over 230,000 followers.
I contend that [...]

Massachusetts is blessed as the home of some of the worlds best universities.  Thousands flock to our region to be educated.  Thousands more utilize this ecosystem to conduct breakthrough research.  We also are home to what has been a vibrant venture capital community.  These should be the ingredients for robust innovation.  There are many drivers [...]

This year marks the tenth year for the Nantucket Conference, which brings together leading technologists, entrepreneurs and investors each May.   The goal has been to create a forum regarding innovation in the New England region.  I can think of noone better to organize this for 2009 than Scott Kirsner who has been tracking and bringing [...]