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Wednesday, 31st August 2011

Facebook to Launch Music Service

Facebook will launch its much-rumored music platform at next month's f8 developers' conference, CNBC reported this afternoon. Rather than go up against the likes of Spotify, Rdio and MOG, Facebook will instead be partnering with those music streaming services. While few details are known for sure, it looks as though the social behemoth is…

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Are We Ready to Become Friends With Things?

It may seem less of a shock to those who experience history as a constant, flowing stream, who perceive events as progressions rather than snapshots, who remember the recent, and then the distant, past by rewinding their memories past last week, last year, the year before, to eventually arrive at a different era. For anyone else who can…

Enterprise Scott M. Fulton comments

The Direction of Success: The Startup Genome Compass

What makes startups succeed or fail? More than 90% of startups fail, due primarily to self-destruction rather than competition. For the less than 10% of startups that do succeed, most encounter several near-death experiences along the way. Simply put, while we now have some good theory, we just are not very good at creating startups yet. After 50…

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Yahoo Open Sources Node.js App & iOS App

An experimental startup inside of Yahoo called Sled is undergoing a name change and being open sourced, instead of being shut down all together, the company announced this morning. Open standards community leader Eran Hammer-Lahav led the effort to build what launched as a community list building service with an emphasis on simplicity, family…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Reel: An alternative to Slideshare and Prezi

The smart folks at Zurb have come up with yet another clever app, this time for testing presentations called Reel. Like their other tools, it is free, it is all Web-based, and it involves a quick way to collect up/down votes. Think of it as Prezi with "likes" added.

Enterprise David Strom comments

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