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Thursday, 27th May 2010

Schoolhouse Funk: Bootsy Collins Launches Online Education Program

Legendary funk music pioneer Bootsy Collins is starting an online education program for bass players. His Funk University is now accepting enrollments, and classes start July 1. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Collins rose to fame playing bass with James Brown and with Parliament-Funkadelics.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Don't Waste Precious Years Of Your Life

Today quite a variety of entrepreneurs presented their business ideas at my Online Strategy Roundtables. Several times I brought up how precious our time is and we need to treat it as such. So many people become enamored with technology and the building of the product before they ever think to validate that this is a business service or product…

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TopicFire Launches Facebook News Pages

Launched in December, news aggregator TopicFire has now turned its attention to Facebook. It has generated two dozen news pages devoted to breaking news topics, populated on Facebook. These run the gamut from Apple News to World News. (Via the latter I just found out actor Gary Coleman is in critical condition in a Utah hospital.) TopicFire is…

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Subpoena for Anonymous Twitterers Dropped: This Week in Online Tyranny

Two anonymous twitterers in the American state of Pennsylvania - @bfbarbie and @CasablancaPA - tweeted harsh criticisms of the state's attorney general, Tom Corbett, who is a candidate for the governorship. On May 6, a grand jury in Harrisburg subpoenaed the identities and other information about the two users from Twitter. The American Civil…

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Startups: Can You Trust Twitter?

When Twitter COO, Dick Costolo announced on Monday that they were making some changes to their terms of service for developers, prohibiting third-party networks from advertising in users' streams, many in the tech industry initially reacted by saying that the move would spell the end of a number of startups who were providing exactly that…

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