Daily Archives: December 29, 2011

Why 2012 will be year of the artist-entrepreneur

December 29, 2011
Why 2012 will be year of the artist-entrepreneur

While 2011 was a big year for political unrest, another uprising was afoot in the world of content creators and artists. Everywhere you look, artists are taking more control over their own economic well being, in large part because the Internet has enabled them to do so. You see it in all forms of content,...

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Fund.me: Mobile Social Network Startup Just.me Raises $2.7 Million

December 29, 2011
Fund.me: Mobile Social Network Startup Just.me Raises $2.7 Million

Just.me, a stealth startup incubated by Palo Alto, California-based Archimedes Labs has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding according to an SEC filing. The company earlier secured $600,000 in seed financing from SV Angel, Google Ventures, True Ventures, Betaworks and a couple of other high-profile angel investors such as Don Dodge, Michael Parekh...

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Secret Apple Archive Reveals Why Steve Jobs Chose The Name ‘Apple Computer’

December 29, 2011
Secret Apple Archive Reveals Why Steve Jobs Chose The Name ‘Apple Computer’

Image: YouTube See Also: The Life and Awesomeness of Steve Jobs The Best Steve Jobs Quotes From His Biography It Sure Looks Like Apple’s iOS Blew Away Google’s Android Over Christmas Weekend PALO ALTO, Calf. (AP) — In the interview, Steve Wozniak and the late Steve Jobs recall a seminal moment in Silicon Valley...

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You have to watch this: Apple’s 1984 Ghostbusters parody [Video]

December 29, 2011

Over twenty years ago, Apple started collating all of its old documents, books, software, videotapes and marketing materials with the intention of opening an Apple museum. However, in 1997 — a time when Steve Jobs reprised his role as CEO at the company — plans were shelved and Apple officials contacted curators at Stanford...

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GoDaddy Is Facing A Nasty Boycott For Once Supporting SOPA

December 29, 2011
GoDaddy Is Facing A Nasty Boycott For Once Supporting SOPA

GoDaddy and its scantily clad spokesmodels used to be publicly listed as supporters of SOPA until pressure from big-name customers forced them to withdraw, reports the BBC. SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act,” is the yet-to-be-passed legislation that everyone’s been talking about. It basically proposes that movie studios and record companies can get court...

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My resolution: respect the physical world

December 29, 2011
My resolution: respect the physical world

« First ‹ Prev Page 4 of 4 Respect the physical world By Philip Rosedale, Co-Founder, Coffee Power (as told to Colleen Taylor) Philip Rosedale is the CEO of Coffee and Power, a marketplace for small jobs. He is best known as the founder of Linden Labs, the Internet company that runs the virtual...

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South Korea overturns ban on Twitter use for election campaigns

December 29, 2011

A new ruling by South Korea’s Constitutional Court today reversed a ban on using Twitter for promotional election activities, allowing the microblogging service and other social networking websites to be used by government candidates to reach out to voters. Yonhap News reports that government candidates were previously unable to distribute promotional publications and other materials for 180...

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12 Things That Won’t Happen In Online Video in 2012

December 29, 2011
12 Things That Won’t Happen In Online Video in 2012

Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo.  Follow him @ashkan. There are no shortages of “predictions” articles, here I look at a dozen things that won’t happen in the world of online video in 2012, even though they should. 1)    We Will Have Standards and Definitions (No, we won’t) By the end of...

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Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV)

December 29, 2011
Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV)

The Gillmor Gang goes enterprise in a conversation with Paul Greenberg, the eminence grise of the CRM, now Social CRM world. Gangsters John Taschek and Steve Gillmor decrypt Paul’s latest report from the front. Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor. Recorded live Wednesday, December 28, 2011. @stevegillmor, @jtaschek, @pgreenbe JOHN TASCHEK STEVE...

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