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Web leading edge coming to Main Street

July 14, 2009 | Robert Scoble

John Kao, an internationally-recognized expert on innovation, thinks 2010 will see some of the most promising developments on the web go mainstream and be

 

Chat Catcher finds missed feedback

July 13, 2009 | Shannon Whitley

For blog authors, reading the comments can be as important as the post itself. Blog comments help authors gauge the popularity of a post.…

 

Helping people 140 characters at a time

July 9, 2009 | Robert Scoble

We met Lon S. Cohen on the streets of New York and, when he told us how the ALS Association is using Twitter to…

 

Small business part 3: Funding

July 8, 2009 | J. Bruce Hughes

Editors note: This is the third article in a three-part series on starting small businesses. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series,…

 

The business card innovator

July 7, 2009 | Robert Scoble

Allen Stern, editor of CenterNetworks in New York, offers a new idea with CloudContacts for making business cards useful. You send him that stack…

 

Twitter business help and promise

July 6, 2009 | Andy Santamaria

Chris Preston is executive vice president and creative director for the Preston Kelly advertising agency based in Minneapolis, Minn., and Peter Tressel is the…

 

Gary Vaynerchuk and the wine family business

July 2, 2009 | building43

Gary Vaynerchuk’s dad moved to the U.S. from Belarus with nothing in 1978, and built the Wine Library in New Jersey into a business…

 

Small business part 2: Counseling and training

July 1, 2009 | J. Bruce Hughes

Editors note: This is the second article in a three-part series on starting small businesses that will be posted on Wednesdays. In the first…

 

StockTwits builds vibrant community on top of Twitter

June 30, 2009 | building43

Howard Lindzon is an investor in Twitter, but he saw a way to make an even bigger investment play: he’d turn Twitter into a…

 

The “Flashy” future of TV

June 26, 2009 | building43

Adobe is bringing Flash to set-top boxes. Here Anup Murarka, director of technology, strategy and partner development for Adobe Systems, shows off how Flash…