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• 05.08.08
  Value of Social Responsibility in the US: $530 billion
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  Jerry Lao is today's contributing writer. He's an aspiring entrepreneur, about to graduate from UC Berkeley. He sure has more to say than I did. Impacted catchphrase Recently, I’ve noticed the media has been maniacally throwing around the catchphrase, “social responsibility,” as if it were the solution to an impending apocalypse. A recent keyword search on Digg.com for social responsibility garnered 69 pages of results; Google returned a little over 20 million results. The media has inadvertently – or stupidly – jumbled a bunch of ideas on ...

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• 05.01.08
  Entrepreneur, Age, and Schooling
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  As I'm about to graduate from college, I'm feeling more and more behind in this whole Silicon Valley startup rush. It seems like every other entrepreneur are in their 20s nowadays. A good number of them are also dropouts of college or grad school. Ever wonder what the real numbers and statistics are? Kauffman Foundation just released its findings on technology startup founders and their backgrounds. Below is a graph depicting the age at which people started their first company. The median age is at 39. It does seem ...

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• 04.27.08
  Digg Is Getting Worse
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  Back when Digg's focus was technology, it used to be my favorite site. When it started to mainstream, I still liked it. The geek community was not as tight, but new audiences added extra value. I enjoy reading about politics, business and odd news, and Digg kept me well-rounded. But for the past couple of the days, I've just been seeing the content deteriorating. For example, just yesterday, it seemed like every other article was about pot. How did this get so many diggs? There needs to be some smarter way of categorizing or ...

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• 04.19.08
  ViPR Visual Search on the iPhone
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  "The deployment of this technology in the mass market also opens up an entirely new range of categories of services for mobile marketing, which is already projected to grow to $24 Billion worldwide by 2013." Wow, this is cool.
  
  
• 10.13.07
  Young Entrepreneurs Avoiding Enterprise Software
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  GigaOm reports that the young entrepreneurs are avoiding enterprise software: One need only look at the hairlines of today’s software leaders. The current wunderkinds are not looking to create the next wave of corporate computing applications, but are instead gravitating toward emerging fields, such as web 2.0, biotech, and anything "green." Moreover, when asking today's business software leaders if they would recommend their kids to start a business in the same field, 29% said "no":
  
  
• 10.06.07
  Web 3.0 or Whatever You Want to Call It
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  Buzz word "Web 3.0" has gotten a lot of attention this week. Calacanis defines the term as "the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform." Smith states it "will be a mobile web revolution." Tim O'Reilly, the man who coined Web 2.0, comes in and helps clear up the mess. I mostly agree with him; the bottom line is that the next internet surge, Web 3.0 or whatever you want to call it, will only come when there is a radical change in the underlying technology ...

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• 08.01.07
  Scoble Declares “War” on the 20’s
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  Today, the TechCrunch interns, including me, posted our Top 10 Facebook apps. In kind gesture, Scoble comments, "It’s war. The 40 somethings vs. the 20 somethings" and comes up with his own Top 10. Here's my short response to the 40's :) 1. Google Reader Shared Items. This is way more useful for those who read a lot of feeds. Plus it shows you who has the most popular blog posts in the past few hours. - Hmm I should check this out 3. The video application - Lets you send video messages to all your friends from your computer’s webcam.Yes ...

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• 07.16.07
  Web 3.0?
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  I just stumbled upon a blog post attempting to define Web 3.0. The Definition: Highly specialized information silos, moderated by a cult of personality, validated by the community, and put into context with the inclusion of meta-data through widgets. "Information silos" and "cult of personality"? Whoa, even I didn't understand that. Overall, I think the writer did an interesting job speculating about the future of different goods and services, but to give it this tight Web 3.0 "definition" simply does not do it justice. I prefer to think of the Web as a gradually growing place. Numbering the Web makes ...

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