Have you ever seen the ability to capture leads directly from search before, with email subscription directly in an ad? I just saw this on Google for the first time while sleuthing around trying to figure out the Decide.com announcement apparently happening tomorrow morning. I can’t currently find a way Continue Reading
In a former life I served as Editor of Seattle 2.0, and one of the most popular pieces of content we produced was the Seattle 2.0 Index – a monthly ranked list of all the local startups. It was a labor of love by Marcelo Calbucci and I was never Continue Reading
Klout, the company that calculates your individual influence score based on your engagement on various social media sites like Twitter and Facebook, feels stagnant. To make matters worse, last week TechCrunch reported that LinkedIn’s new endorsements feature is kicking serious butt. From the article: “Today, LinkedIn is announcing that Endorsements Continue Reading
Google Reader is my most beloved Google app and I thought they’d never shut it down. It is endlessly useful, I would pay for it, and now it is going to be gone. Yes, I know there are probably tons of alternatives, but I love my Google Reader setup exactly Continue Reading
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My greatest fear as a startup founder isn’t to fail, it is to become a zombie startup.
Hacker News has been down for scheduled maintenance (which is running a bit longer than the Internet expected) for about 5 hours now, based on PG’s tweet: Apologies for the HN outage.We think it may be related to the new server.This could take a while to fix. — Paul Graham Continue Reading
This post is part of a series called “Playlist” where I post songs I find meaningful in life and entrepreneurship. If you like this I hope you will check out the other posts. Yet another with less than 10,000 views on YouTube. If you like it spread the word. American Continue Reading
Alternate Title: How NOT to Do Social Media for Your Startup This morning, I happily tweeted about the service UserTesting.com, which I’ve been using to get brutal but extremely helpful feedback on user experience at Referly. The Twitter account for user testing startup BetaPunch replied (see the full thread of Continue Reading