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Google Wallet: Handicapping why it will (and won’t) work | ZDNet tags: blog As world burns, G8 leaders fiddle … with the Internet. Seriously? tags: blog All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club « abovethecrowd.com Excellent read tags: blog Sarkozy riles Internet CEOs at e-G8 | FT Tech Hub [...]
The Cost of Employing
If you are interested in why the job market (outside of Rails developers in Silicon Valley, but that’s another story) is so anemic then read this piece: He’s referring not to wages, but to regulation: He has no way of telling what new rules will go into effect when. His business, although it covers several [...]
Governments or Social Networks?
French President kicked off the gathering in Paris, hailing the assembled players as the leaders of the “Internet revolution”, but warning that with their power comes great responsibility. He hailed the role of the Internet in helping protestors organise recent Arab uprisings such as the revolutions in Tunisia and but insisted it must be underpinned by “values” [...]
Services I Like
Lately I have been trying a wide spectrum of personal productivity tools, mostly out of curiosity for what is out there but also because I need some efficiencies. Diigo: I have a lot of bookmarks but I’m not very organized about them, and in addition that problem I regularly let my browser overflow with tabs [...]
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Vendor Influencers, the New Category on the Block Yep there is definitely a redefinition of what it means to be an “analyst”. Gone are the days when analysts did hardcore research against markets and used that data to both define and predict the market direction, today an analyst is someone who has influence. I don’t [...]
Popularity is Not Influence
Read this today: In 24 hours, Athar went from someone who jokes with friends on Twitter and invites people to his coffee shop to someone who broadcasts his thoughts to more than 86,000 followers. How did he become so influential so quickly? How does anyone? It takes the right piece of information at the right time, [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. I am the VP of Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction and I write about a range of topics that interest me, including public policy, technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and global issues.
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