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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Balck Friday/Cyber Monday Holiday Deals: Office for Mac 2011 ome and Student ‘Single License $88.99, Family Pack (3 Licenses) $108.99′ at Amazon
I hold on this post for over a week, to see the final prices of Amazon. Last week, Microsoft's MacBU team posted Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals for Office for Mac 2011.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Fun E-Session at a new Location
Laura & Ben are another reason why I love living in a small city! When we met originally about their wedding, we found out that we had a few connections, Laura had even once been at my Mom & Dad's house once! At the shoot I found out that the
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Fun E-Session at a new Location
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Hot New York Startup Hashable Raises $4 Million At $25-$30 Million Valuation
Hashable, the New York City startup that helps you track your real world interactions with other people, has raised a $4 million venture round led by Union Square Ventures.
Hashable has taken an unusual route to get where it is now. Originally founded as Tracked.com, a would-be competitor to Yahoo Finance, the company has already raised over $11 million. After realizing Tracked was never going to be as big as he'd hoped, founder and CEO Michael Yavonditte shed most of his staff and took the company in a radically different direction. Now, just a few months after its beta launch, the company is one of the most talked about startups in New York, and has raised money at a pre-money valuation over $25 million.
So, what is Hashable?
At its core, Hashable is a tool for keeping track of your relationships, a 'personal CRM'. Using Twitter, email, its website, or a forthcoming iPhone app, Hashable has three basic functions:
- Introductions: Hashable lets you introduce any two people you know using their Twitter handles or email addresses. Hashable alerts both people, and checks in with them later to see if they actually met.
- Contact exchange: When you tell Hashable that you 'just met' someone, it sets up an 'icebreaker' page with both of your contact information. The iPhone app, due in early December, also provides a synchronized contacts list that combines information from your email accounts, phone address book, Twitter account, and Hashable's own data.
- People check-in: Whenever you meet up with people, you can tell Hashable (or have it automatically pull that information from tweets or emails you send announcing that fact.) Hashable keeps track of how often you interact with whom.
In order to get off the ground, Hashable has heavily emphasized the first function in the early going, encouraging people to use Twitter to make their introductions. Users get points ('hash cred') for successfully introducing people, and there are leaderboards showing the 'top connectors'. This is like crack for people in the people-driven venture world, and VCs and founders have been going wild with it. As a result, if you follow a lot of tech people, especially in New York, your Twitter feed has probably been chock-full of Hashable notifications for the past few months.
For that core demographic, this noisy sort of use-case will probably always be important. But the wider value of the service lies with tracking connections. If people really start logging their every day meetings in Hashable, the company will have an immensely valuable data set on its hands. Rather than just a graph of connections, like LinkedIn or Facebook, Hashable would also know the strength of those connections, based on how often you actually see those people.
Of course, Hashable has a long way to go to get there. Anything on this scale is a long shot. But it's off to as good a start as one could hope for.
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Hot New York Startup Hashable Raises $4 Million At $25-$30 Million Valuation
Kinect Video: Parents Can Finally Win at Xbox Games!
Already selling 1 million units in 10 days, Microsoft's Xbox Kinect controller is a hit. I can see why; it's intuitive, fun, and it finally gives parents like me a chance to beat the kids in a video game, even if I look stupid doing it.
Kinect Video: Parents Can Finally Win at Xbox Games!
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Gowalla Checks-in at Mouse House (On Influence and Automation)
Yesterday Gowalla announced a partnership with one of the biggest brands on the planet - Walt Disney, Inc.. There are plenty of skeptics that don't believe in social media – let alone geo-social apps like Gowalla, (Foursquare and Facebook Places.) So, why does this partnership make sense? Corporate Blogging for Dummies is now available on Amazon and in book stores. Check out our new...
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Tumblr's Crazy Funding Round: $25-30 Million At Staggering $135 Million Valuation
The details are out on Tumblr's new round of funding, and they are pretty staggering: Tumblr's series C brought in $25-$30 million at a whopping $135 million valuation, Fortune's Dan Primack reports.
That's a staggering amount of money -- Tumblr's series B brought in just $5 million, and was just seven months ago.
It's not at all clear that Tumblr has a need for that kind of cash. But with traffic growing incredibly quickly, investors were fighting to get into the company.
The company hasn't yet worked out any real revenue model. Then again, neither has Twitter, and that seems likely to work out pretty well for its investors.
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See Also:
- How Tumblr Grew From 450,000 Users To Several Millions
- Words Of Wisdom From Tumblr's David Karp And Celebrity Nick Cannon For Future Entrepreneurs
- Tumblr Lands "Very Big And Competitive" Round From Sequoia
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No Tweeting Allowed for President Bill Clinton's Keynote at Salesforce.com Event
No tweeting, live blogging, posting to Facebook or any other use of social media will be permitted when President Bill Clinton gives the keynote address at Dreamforce, the annual Salesforce.com event taking place Dec. 6-8 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The unusual notice came to us today from The Outcast Agency, the public relations firm that represents Salesforce.com.
Here's the full text of the message from Outcast:
Sponsor
"PLEASE NOTE: President Clinton's representatives have mandated that there be absolutely no reporting during his session. That includes live blogging, Tweeting, Facebook posting or use of any other social media. We understand the inconvenience this may present, but greatly appreciate your compliance. Thank you."
No word yet why Clinton's handlers have mandated no reporting during the keynote.
Sameer Patel, an analyst in the enterprise space expressed the curiosity and wonder that many have had about the news. He tweeted: "Wow, Pres Clinton's handlers have mandated NO live reporting blogging, tweeting during his #sfdc #dreamforce keynote. #really??"
We go to these user conferences quite a bit. The tweet stream is always thick with commentary about the keynote. Never have we been asked not to tweet, post to Facebook or live blog.
Neither General Colin Powell nor Vice President Al Gore prohibited reporting from their keynotes at user conferences we have attended. Powell spoke at Dreamforce last year.
It also seems counter to the message about the power of social technologies that Salesforce.com has been focusing on for the past year.
Salesforce.com launched Chatter, its microblogging tool, last year at Dreamforce. Since then, the company has repeatedly shown its commitment to embracing social technologies.
We know that this is not a Salesforce.com decision. It's the Clinton team that is making the demand.
But regardless it seems odd and a bit chilling. What do you think? And how do you think they will try to stop it? Even if they cut off the wifi, people can use their mobile devices or connect with data cards.
On another note, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young are performing at Dreamforce. Now that will be worth tweeting about.
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