July 2010

Google Spent $1.1 Billion On Startup Acquisitions (So Far)

by Jeff Weisbein July 31, 2010
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Google has spent $1.1 billion in the first half of 2010 on startup acquisitions alone.  The company has bought 22 startups so far this year.   However, the majority of the amount was spent in the somewhat recently completed acquisition of mobile ad service AdMob. Google’s acquisition spree has been geared towards smaller startups, but [...]

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Why You’re Not Gettin’ Any: Donations

by Mike Mansell July 31, 2010
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Once you have established yourself on the Internet, you will surely find yourself incurring fees and expenses in maintaining your website. Be it for materials for projects, fees for hosting, or simply your time, you will want to be compensated and reimbursed for your efforts. Sure, you could load your site with ads, but that [...]

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Review: Vuzix Wrap 310 Video Glasses

by Rohan Reddy July 31, 2010
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Whenever you think of video glasses, you think of the future. You think of being able to whip out a pair of RayBans and watch your favorite movies and TV Shows. Well we are not yet there style wise, but we do have a line of video glasses from the company Vuzix. The Wrap 310′s [...]

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VaultPress Review: WordPress Backup

by Jeff Weisbein July 30, 2010
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Recently, I signed up for VaultPress.  What is VaultPress?  It is a subscription-based protection, security and backup service for WordPress blogs and sites.  Subscriptions range from $15-$40/month.  Right now, if you sign up and are accepted into the private beta, you can get in at $15/month (Basic package) for the lifetime of your membership.  The [...]

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Apple Magic Trackpad Unboxing

by Jeff Weisbein July 30, 2010
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What is the Magic Trackpad? The new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad designed to work with your Mac desktop computer. It uses the same Multi-Touch technology on the MacBook Pro. It supports all the same gestures, too. The Magic Trackpad connects to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology. You can use it in [...]

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Why You’re Not Gettin’ Any: Advertisers & Sponsors

by Mike Mansell July 30, 2010
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Advertisers and sponsors are easily some of the most important aspects of a website or blog. Both give the administration behind the site crucial funding to not only continue their content, but improve it as well. For example, a blog funded by advertisers and sponsors has the ability to purchase products for review, and ultimately [...]

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YouTube to Increase Video Upload Time Limit to 15 Minutes

by Jeff Weisbein July 29, 2010
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According to BoingBoing, YouTube will soon increase the maximum duration of uploaded videos from 10 minutes to 15 minutes.  While this move may not mean much to most people, it will definitely be helpful to those of you who are not YouTube partners who use YouTube as a publishing platform your content.  Obviously, the increase [...]

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Why You’re Not Gettin’ Any: Comments & Replies

by Mike Mansell July 29, 2010
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So you’re finally to the point with your website where you’re getting a frequent and steady flow of visitors. But despite the number of people viewing your site and the amount of quality content that you have, you just aren’t seeing high numbers of comments or replies to your content. Without this type of activity, [...]

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Facebook Launches Q&A Service

by Jeff Weisbein July 28, 2010
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Facebook is in the process of rolling out their brand new Q&A service called Questions.  Questions has been in development for months now as we saw with their request for beta testers.  Could this be the future of Facebook?  If Facebook can build up a decent quality database of questions with good answers, it may [...]

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Motorola Strikes Back At Apple: No Jacket Required

by Jeff Weisbein July 28, 2010
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Motorola released a full page ad in the New York Times today in which they fired back at Apple’s claims that the Droid X also suffered from attenuation when held in a particular way.  The ad which read, “No Jacket Required” is clearly a shot at Apple.  To make it even more apparent, the ad goes [...]

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