December 2009 NY Tech MeetUp

A few quick NY Tech Minute pitches from:
Chocri
Dr. Chrono
SoupFly
Larva Labs and their Intelligent Home Screen

A talk from Josh Silver about Net Neutrality.

5 minute demos from these hot startups:
HotPotato
VodPod (also showing off Laminate)
The folks at ZURB showing off Notable & ItsScrumptious
Ogmento

If you can't make the event, you can watch live -- thanks to our partnership with Livestream -- at http://NYTM.org/Livestream

HotPotato will show us the future of conversations
VodPod will show off their Ruby templating engine Laminate 
• The folks at ZURB showing off Notable & ItsScrumptious 
And also see the world in Augmented Reality with Ogmento

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Arrington's Thanksgiving

• Microsoft and old media: Not the best way to compete with Google.
• 1997 Steve Jobs. A great way for Arrington to celebrate Thanksgiving.
• Chrome add-ons.
• Facebook has been lousy with search so far. It has to treat each update as that unit that we should be able to search. It has to be more than about looking up people.
• Facebook updates did not kill Twitter. Twitter geo tagging will not kill FourSquare. I think FourSquare might be upto something.
• Angel investing is not for the chicken hearted.
• 999 business ideas.
  

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Madonna Is Dating Jesus, No Kidding

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Finally, Twitter Ads

• The Chrome OS is out. Long live the Chrome OS.
• Twitter is starting to make money. About time.
  
• Across the pond: the startup culture is different slightly.
• Scoble growing horns.So what is a super tweet?
• Gmail forever.
• Monetizing real time.Twitter ads. Ugh, finally.
  

• The sleep industry. Ha! First time I am hearing the term. 
• Old media: yet another step in self-destruction.
• Maybe now so. But later Chrome OS will compete more directly.
• Mark Zuckerberg, movie star. 

• Social media jobs. 
• A Clearwire rebound?
  

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Web 2.0 Expo NY 09

I Got My Retweet Button Now

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When O'Reilly Said 2.0

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• Obama not on Twitter. This makes the "humbled" tweet really interesting.
• Outright book keeping.
• Microsoft to Google: that was fast.
• IBM eating its own dog food on business analytics.
• That all in one device will be the Internet Computer. It will replace the PC, the Netbook, the smartphone, the Kindle.
• When O'Reilly said Web 2.0. This interview is of outsize importance. 
• And what are those mistakes?
• Tablet PC. Still elusive. Overhyped? 
• A L? 
• Droid does? 
• Slum kids' easy ways with the computer.“Where’s my Oscar?” Ha!
  
• Mashable beat TechCrunch on page hits with Twitter marketing.
• Anonymous no more.
• Amazon + Twitter.
  

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This Blog's Alexa Rank Is Up Substantially

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A few days back I realized this blog's Alexa rank is up substantially. Right now it stands at close to 200,000. Early this year, if I remember it right, it was closer to 2,000,000. Maybe it was 1.8 million. But it was definitely up and above the million mark. My two other blogs are still past the million mark, way past. How did this happen. I can take a guess. My guess is this blog went up in the ranks because it is this blog that I link to from my Twitter page, and as I have moved from 300 followers to more than 30,000 followers on Twitter, my Twitter page has gone up in value.When someone follows you on Twitter it is like they linked to your Twitter page from their Twitter page. That drives up the web value of your Twitter page. So a link to this blog from my Twitter page is a valuable link. Hopefully that translates into better rates for blog post ads.

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Web Search, Real Time Search, Social Search

• Web search, real time search, social search.The social search space is in major flux.
  
• Murdoch, Madoff, Mark Cuban. Cuban is missing the point. He is going back to the era of the Yahoo directories way of doing search. The list of the top 1,000,000 sites is in constant flux as it should be.
• Twitter and Google. This is a dream come true for me. Index all tweets ever. Index all real time tweets. And then help make sense.
• Facebook updates are very valuable. I am counting links to news articles and videos among the updates. You have your personal repository that you want to dig into at a later date.
• If Twitter is your entry point to the web which is your entry point to the world, does that put Twitter in some kind of a central position? Sure.
• The Google Chrome Operating System is showing up earlier than I had expected. But I guess they did say some time in Fall, did they not? A Netbook with a large enough screen with a Chrome OS on it, now that would be something. 
• Unless Twitter grows and keeps adding new features to richen the experience, it might stay among the tech elite.
• If this is not JP Rangaswami! 
• Give India time. There is space for many Silicon Valleys across the world.
• A Yahoo Connect sounds like a good idea.
  

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