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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/09/how-to-get-on-techcrunch/ Guy Kawasaki interviews Michael Arrington about TechCrunch, which a lot of people seem to now view as a fast track to “making it” with a web application startup. Guy has the cribnotes, which are interesting, but Tony Hung summarises it further: I’m
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/09/review-in-search-of-the-valley/ I’ve been meaning to post my review of Steve O’ Hear’s film In Search of the Valley. Rather than a discussion of the business forces behind technology companies or a Techcrunch-style analysis, Steve and crew have attempted to do something far
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George Siemens talks about Intel's new SuiteTwo announcement: However, in recent conversations with individuals beginning to adopt social software (or web 2.0 tools), the message is clear: "I'm not going to get students to set up 10 different accounts on 10 different tools -
I thought I'd throw out a quick link back to an old Internet is People post about how to build engagement in online communities for those of you who are getting started with your own social network for the first time. It isn't just a case
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This is a learning experience for us, and sometimes we're bound to make mistakes. So many people asked for a free option on Elgg Spaces that we've decided to change our plans and offer one - and you'll no longer be prompted for payment
Well, the wait is over, and I for one am very excited. Elgg Spaces is the first ever service to allow you to create your own truly independent social networking site. It uses the Elgg engine, of course, but we've tweaked it to ensure that all the technical
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/04/gootube/ A very interesting take on the Youtube sale over at Valleywag: In other words, Google bought the lawsuits. And that may be its smartest purchase yet. Put in that light, $1.65 billion begins to make sense. Youtube as a test case is
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/03/australia-to-second-life-users-we-will-tax-you/ You know a technology has hit mainstream when it’s mentioned by members of government, traditionally the very last people to ever get on a new technology bandwagon, also Australia has made the decision to tax the currency used in online business as
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/01/woz-outtakes/ Via Digg, Guy Kawasaki has highlighted an outtake reel from In Search of the Valley featuring Steve Wozniak. I’ve got the movie and will watch it this week - look out for a review later on. I think this is a great
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Today is the first day of National Novel Writing Month, a terrifying exercise where thousands of would-be writers attempt to write a complete novel during November. It rarely works out for me - although my great life aspiration is to be a novelist, I have a nasty habit of going
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We're doing a thought experiment about hosting a small amount of advertising on Elgg.net. The behaviour would be as follows: Logged in users would not see ads by default, but could switch them on in their account settings if they wanted to support Elgg.net. Users viewing
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This is a more personal (and sillier) video blog post, about being back in Edinburgh and a little bit about the origins of Elgg. I've used it kind of as an excuse for more editing practice - I've been using Windows Movie Maker, but I wonder