Tech Town, NC

Red Herring’s Tomio Geron has posted a nice summary of stats from the trade publication “Newspapers and Technology” detailing what newspapers are doing to stay relevant. The study makes clear that printed news is not enough in a world of hyperlinks, reader feedback, and video. It’s a good sign that papers are trying […]

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No one is sure when it will happen, but at this point it’s almost certain Google will announce a mobile device to debut sometime in the next 6 months. Just like everyone else, I’ve read the rumors about what it will do and look like, and what it will mean to Google’s competitors. […]

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The last couple months have seen increased attention (or some would say heat) on the practices of Text Link Ads and the market they’ve created. This is an important issue for many reasons, ranging from the mostly theoretical “democratic web” debate to the most nitty-gritty “this affects my bottom line” reality.
SEOmoz provides […]

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I was recently visiting a few of my regular blogs when I noticed something was very different about them - The ads had all been removed. Somewhat surprised, I then took a look at my own blog and saw that MY ADS were not showing up! I knew it wasn’t a Google […]

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With the new ability to send emails from facebook to recipients both in and out of the “face-osphere” it is now possible to never use Gmail again! Wait, why would I want to do that? Good question.
As Pete Cashmore writes this is another way that facebook is trying to dig deeper into our […]

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There was a good turnout for the event last night, with 25-30 people coming to the Wine Bar throughout the night. I only survived until around 11:00 but still had time to meet some good people working on anything from poverty, to healthcare, to fair trade, to education, to you name it. Hope […]

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Ryan Allis of iContact is organizing the 5th social entrepreneur meetup in the area. This will be my first one but from what I’ve heard they draw a lively crowd. For future reference, the meetups are every other Thursday, from now until there cease to be entrepreneurs in Chapel Hill.

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In an effort to compete in the evolving sphere of new media, Red Herring has redesigned their site, adding social networking features, a more “Web 2.0″ look and feel, and a video only site, RedHerring.tv. We all know the sad state of Business 2.0 and Red Herring understands the realities of the […]

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