Today is the first official day of 2010. Last week I shared three potential Twitter app acquisitions and five startup predictions both for 2010.
Darren Herman has put together a massive list of predictions for 2010 in the media and marketing space. A few from Darren’s list include:
7 Things We Hope Will Come True in 2010 (GigaOm)
Twitter in [...]
Yesterday we took a look at how Kodak is welcoming in the new year using their video wall in Times Square. If you aren’t planning on going out into the snow tonight or are located in another city, you can still watch the ball drop to 2010 tonight in Times Square.
Hulu and Livestream have you covered with New Year’s related content from [...]
Many years ago I stopped by the Times Square visitor’s center in Manhattan. They offered a program which offered to take a photo of you (or your group) and put it up on the huge screen at the north end of Times Square. It was totally cool and a great way for tourists to say they were on top of Times Square.
Kodak is now offering something [...]
Yesterday we took a look at 10 terms that are out for 2010. Today I’d like to share three Twitter apps that could be acquisition targets in 2010. If these acquisitions do take place, it would say a lot for the value of the “ecosystem”. I have no knowledge of any potential acquisitions past my own research and panel discussion [...]
A friend of mine forwarded an email he received from Twitter this morning. The email (shown below) notes, “Due to concern that your account may have been compromised in a phishing attack that took place off-Twitter, your password was reset.” He went to the link in the email and reset his password. The same email was sent two additional [...]
As we look forward to 2010, I’d like to propose a very serious list of 10 terms that we should no longer use beginning on January 1, 2010. Feel free to leave your list of even more serious terms that are out for ‘10 in the comments. You can also agree with my list or attempt a veto on any term.
Term #1 – “I’m [...]
The textbooks market is really heating up over the past few months. The startup in the space, Chegg, recently raised $57 million in venture capital. Earlier this month Amazon launched a textbook trade-in service.
Today Barnes & Noble launched a program to attempt to woo students over to their side of the field. The program offers students 10 [...]
Here are today’s startup and entrepreneurial updates – coming to you live from the city where you can’t buy an iPhone but you can still get a hot dog and a knish on the corner of 43rd and 9th at 1am.
I’m not an enterpreneur, I’m a dirty hack – this is so meta
Top Two Branding Secrets from Steve Jobs – [...]
I just posted five of my startup predictions for 2010 over on InformationWeek. Below is the first prediction, head over to InformationWeek to read the others.
Prediction #1 – Acquisitions
Overall I expect the startup market to be very hot in 2010 and the year will see many acquisitions — especially for talent. Larger startups will [...]
We’ve heard from multiple sources that presentation sharing service SlideShare has been down for over 4 hours. The SlideShare Twitter account notes that they are installing some new software on their servers and the service will be back pretty soon. Here’s their message regarding the downtime, “HEADSUP: Our servers are getting [...]
