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How Will the Facebook IPO Impact New Startups?

by Jeff Weisbein January 8, 2012
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The Facebook IPO will have a huge impact on the startup world as many talented engineers cash out for the next big thing.

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This Is What Separates Google from Everyone Else

by Jeff Weisbein December 8, 2011
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What is it that makes Google so successful? And why hasn’t any company tried to mimic the company’s success?

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Quora: What’s the Big Deal?

by Jeff Weisbein January 23, 2011
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I’ve asked this before, but I think it needs to be asked again.  Can someone (anybody) please explain what it is about this Q&A site craze that is going on these days?  Every tech guy (except me it seems) is hyping up Quora as the next big thing. While I admit I said the next [...]

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Newspapers Have Alternatives to the Paywall, But Will They Explore Them?

by Jeff Weisbein July 20, 2010
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It has been over a year since we published an article entitled The Future of News and the newspaper industry is still hurting. Many of them are now implementing paywalls in order to read their content, but is this truly the right approach?

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Battle for Relevance: Yahoo

by Jeff Weisbein July 16, 2010
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When I asked Twitter the other day, “Who will become more irrelevant (or die) first – Microsoft or Yahoo?” I can’t say I was surprised by the overwhelming response answering Yahoo, or maybe it was more along the lines of “Yahoo is relevant?”  I think you get the point.  When Michael Arrington interviewed Yahoo CEO [...]

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The Future of Facebook May Be Lurking Around the Corner

by Jeff Weisbein May 28, 2010
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Facebook is in the process of looking for some beta testers to help build the future of Facebook.  It’s not some random selection process either.  In order to enter yourself as a possible candidate you must think of three questions and answer them thoroughly as if you were writing an article or paper on the [...]

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We’re Back, Just Like We Said We’d Be Back.

by Jeff Weisbein May 27, 2010
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Well, we’re back. It has been over two weeks, but I think the downtime will be beneficial in the end. While that may seem like an odd thing to say, it has allowed me to have a lot of much needed time off from the site. In the past few weeks, I have been able [...]

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The Future Of News

by Eric Massengill July 16, 2009
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In my last article, I talked about what the newspaper industry is doing to stay afloat. Their biggest worry now is monetizing their content, which is understandably hard on a medium designed specifically to facilitate the easy transfer of information. Currently, their strategy revolves around pay-walls, but pay-walls heavily favor primary sources over smaller news [...]

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