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 [...]
Google Inc. has revamped its search engine to allow results to be refreshed with up-to-the-second data increasingly churned out by the new crop of real-time Web products. The move to integrate real-time search results directly into Google's flagship Web search product comes nearly two months after the company announced a partnership to license [...]
NutshellMail Dec. 8 launched from beta as a cloud computing tool to let users aggregate social network messages from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and other social networks. The SAAS service then pushes those status updates and alerts in e-mail digests when the user decides to receive them. NutshellMail's delivery model is also a departure [...]
Real-time search ruled the roost at Google's search event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Dec. 7. However, Vic Gundotra, the vice president of engineering who has been spearheading Google's moves in the green field that is the mobile Web, warmed up the crowd with key mobile and wireless services. They are: Google Goggles, a [...]
witter, with its increased popularity have obviously been at the dark sight of crackers. They try phishing to manipulate your account and also hijack your twitter profile to irritate your followers too. That may seriously harm your reputation and credentials though you were never aware of such issues yourselves. The scammers put up websites that [...]
