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Feed SubscriptionTrove, WaPo Labs’s Personalized News Site, Plays Hot-Or-Not With Articles
Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video. The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with Trove, a personalized news aggregation site. Trove personalizes news in a couple of ways--it uses Facebook Connect to cull information about your interests, and it offers pairs of articles for you to choose from, Hot-or-Not style
Read More »What LeBron James And The Miami Heat Teach Us About Teamwork
LeBron James He’s the self-proclaimed king of the NBA, a twotime league MVP who is used to getting his way.
Read More »YouTube’s Royal Flush: Google Breaks Out Streamers For Prince William And Kate’s Wedding
It's the biggest deal Google has landed yet, an event to be watched by billions of people around the world--many of whom will check it out online.
Read More »The Sharing Economy
Thanks to the social web, you can now share anything with anyone anywhere in the world. Is this the end of hyperconsumption
Read More »8 Neat Ways To Utilize Virtual Events
Conferences, symposiums, and meetings are going virtual for some companies.
Read More »Adam Scott looks to defend Texas Open title
When he pulled a 9-iron shot with a half swing on the final hole at last year's Texas Open, Adam Scott admitted he had to go "straight away" to the range to work out the kinks.
Read More »Work Smart: 5 Easy To-Dos That Keep Your To-Do List Healthy
To-do lists are like fashion. One season sky-high stilettos are in, but three months later it's all about ballerina flats.
Read More »Facebook Wall Secrets Revealed, Romney Announces Prez Run on YouTube, Familiar Name in Webby Noms, and More…
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Read More »Branding on a Budget
When Mike Sprouse , Chief Marketing Officer at for one of the largest, privately-owned internet marketing companies in the world, Epic Media Group , agreed to be on my broadcast today, I immediately jumped at the opportunity to ask him a few marketing and branding questions. Mike is also the author of The Greatness Gap , which details personal strategies to maximize your professional career. If you have questions for Mike related to finding your passion, marketing your business or how to give back to our global community, call into the show today , April 18th at 2pm ET or send me an email ! Mike, you’ve worked in the corporate arena for most of your career, and yet you refer to yourself as entrepreneurial.
Read More »Which States are Start-up Hotbeds?
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs.
Read More »Videoconferences Are Awkward and Not Super Useful, Right? MIT’s Kinect Hack Can Help
Work coming out of MIT's Media Lab has taken the imaging powers of a Microsoft Kinect and used them to power software that reveals how we'll be videoconferencing in the future.
Read More »iFive: Google Slips in China, Anonymous Hits Sony, Apple Jailbreakers Get Ads, Sony Reveals iPhone 5 Cam, Google’s New/Old CEO
1. Google's presence in China, always in the balance after its very public spat with the Chinese government over censorship, seems to be at a critical juncture .
Read More »Personalized iPad Magazine Zite Responds to Cease-and-Desist Letter From Time Inc., Washington Post
Today, leading publishers including The Washington Post and Time Inc. sent Vancouver-based startup Zite a cease-and-desist letter
Read More »Case Study: Battling a Media (and Legal) Firestorm
Greg Tseng, CEO of the social networking website Tagged, had just landed in Manila, on Saturday, June 6, 2009, to kick off a long-awaited vacation. As soon as he dragged his jet-lagged body up to his hotel room, though, an onslaught of phone calls, e-mails, and text messages from his co-founder, Johann Schleier-Smith, and other Tagged employees began: Something was seriously wrong with the site. In the 24 hours since Tseng had left his office in San Francisco, thousands of complaints had been filed by users—who claimed that Tagged's new registration process had somehow tricked them into spamming all of the contacts in their e-mail address books
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