posted by Matt filed under News,
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Just been reading an article over at Silicon Alley Insider. It appears Google is preparing to experiment with becoming an Internet Service Provider.
The article goes on to say that Google is considering rolling out a super-fast fiber optic network to cover between 50,000 and 500,000 people, with an initial build-out of 20,000 to 200,000 homes. This is estimated to cost between $60 million to $1.6 billion dollars, and is a drop in the ocean of the estimated $25 billion dollar cash reserves that Google currently has. …click here to read more
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Digg founder, entrepreneur, angel investor, rock climber and tea drinker extraordinaire Kevin Rose has signed a book deal with HarperStudio, the people who brought you Crush It! by WineLibrary.tv’s Gary Vaynerchuck.
The book will be about “the secrets to his success” and will be titled One to One Million.
“I’m a huge fan — have been following his blog, twitter, videos, etc. for some time, and think he’s one of the smartest tech entrepreneurs out there with lots of wisdom and experience to share.” wrote Debbie Stier, Associate Publisher of HaperStudio and Director of Digital Marketing at HarperCollins. …click here to read more
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What is being hailed as the most long awaited gadget of the last 2 years is almost here. Apple’s due to announce there take on the tablet PC, Codenamed “K48″, at 6pm (GMT) during a press conference in San Francisco. Steve Jobs (or Phil Schiller) will be on stage to introduce the device to the gathered press, bloggers and guests.
There will most likely be second by second coverage via Twitter, although Mashable reported timeline delays beginning as early as 11:00am (ET) on Twitter, with delays coming in at 4-5 minutes for many users. No doubt this will increase, with the fail whale making an unwelcome return to Twitter, and it’s frustrated users eagerly tracking the announcement as it happens. …click here to read more
posted by Matt filed under Random
In a recent episode of the Boag World podcast (No.197) Paul makes a very valid point of blog posting, saying “the key is regularity rather than frequency”.
He’s noticed that whilst he regularly posts on his blog and puts out the weekly podcast, traffic is high. But when the boag world podcast has its Christmas break, he often receives emails wondering when it will be back. Likewise if he doesn’t post on his blog regularly traffic begins to fall off, and building the traffic back up can be difficult and lengthy processes.
Whilst I agree with his point, I’m more in favour of quality of content and feel that unless you have something good to say, it possibly isn’t wise to just post for the sake of it. Doing so means you fall for the pitfall of many twitter user where people talk about all sorts of mundane rubbish.
That being said, there’s nothing stopping you from building up an archive of posts, notes or topics to talk about. Thus giving you plenty of content post.
Check out the segment in episode 197 at: http://boagworld.com/podcast/197
The folks over at TechHub are in the final stages of launching the project, bringing together all the backers and holding presentations and conversations with corporate sponsors and the UK government to pitch the idea.
To showcase the demand for TechHub and the need for such a resource in the UK, the great people at TechHub have turned to the tech community for support. They came up with the idea of people recording a video answering the simple question, Why I Want TechHub? and tweet the follow with a link to their video:-
“Do a Video on why you want @TechHub & win a free place! http://bit.ly/67EdkM #TechHub Pls RT!”
The result has been amazing with videos popping up all over YouTube and Twitter. I’ve record one myself, check it out: Why I want techhub – YouTube
posted by Matt filed under Web Start-up
Just wanted to share a great post by Sam Brown entitled “How to stay sane when freelancing from home”: http://sam.brown.tc/414
The post guides you through everything from the setup of your workspace/desk to structuring your day and attending meet-ups. …click here to read more
posted by Matt filed under Web Start-up
Firstly I would like to wish you a very Happy New Year and I hope you had a great Christmas.
For me 2010 is going to be an important year as I settle into the web start-up life style, taking on the advice given to me by the mighty Paul Boag during a consultancy clinic session in December.
I plan to blog about my life as a start-up as often as I can, reporting back on my journey from early stage start-up to full public launch. It may not be a super exciting blockbuster read, but I hope it will help others get an insight into a web start-up, and the learning curve I will go through.
So until then have a very Happy New Year.
Matt
posted by Matt filed under Tech News
I’ve been reading a few articles online regarding the new Facebook Privacy settings, but is it really all that bad?
Valley Wag leads with “Facebook’s Great Betrayal“, stating “Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil.” …click here to read more
posted by Matt filed under Tech News
Has it really been just five years? Seems crazy, but yes Digg.com is five years old today.
Digg started life as a vision of a new way to surface news with just a team of 4 at the helm. 5 years and 40+ million monthly visitors later Digg now has a team of 80 passionate employees and a world renowned brand, podcasts and live events to boot. …click here to read more
posted by Matt filed under News
News Corporation chairmen Rupert Murdoch seems to be in a hurry to destroy his business. He is eagerly running around building walls to protect his content, yet in my eyes at least it seems like public self-destruction.
His insane quest to force people to pay for his content will damage his business in my view. I can however understand that he needs to make up the short full in the falling traditional newspaper revenues, but this isn’t the way to do it. …click here to read more
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