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•  The Case Against Apple–in Five Parts « The Jason Calacanis Weblog if the iPhone was available on more carriers, Apple would sell many, many more units, which would inevitably lead to people switching from Windows desktops to Macs
•  Yahoo committed seppuku today « The Jason Calacanis Weblog Search is the most important business of the 21st century and owning a  commanding lead in second place is not insignificant. At one time Yahoo was the number one search engine and portal..... Microsoft’s deep dive into a graphical user interface on an operating  system, Windows, was a clear sign to Steve Jobs that his bet was correct. Steve doubled and tripled down and that is why Apple is  Apple. Microsoft’s deep dive into word processors and spreadsheets was the clear sign to WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 that this was a space worth fighting for..... Aggression and innovation wins. Period.......startups–and BDC’s (big dumb companies)
•  How to kill Google (or take 10 points of search search share in ...
•  Is Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky? « The Jason Calacanis ...
•  (The) Startup Depression « The Jason Calacanis Weblog Google started as a search engine but bought Applied Semantics in order to create their real business: text-based advertising......... Microsoft started by building programming software (Altair Basic), but went on to make it’s business in operating systems, Microsoft Office and servers.
  

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Jason Calacanis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia the Silicon Alley Reporter. Originally a 16-page photocopied newsletter, as its popularity grew it expanded into a 300-page magazine .... Calacanis's tireless socializing ..... He then hired some of the top users of social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, Newsvine and Flickr to go to Netscape as Netscape Navigators ....... in August 2007, Calacanis got into a public confrontation with Dave Winer that led to Winer's resignation from the panel of experts for the TechCrunch20 conference organized by Calacanis ... Winer interrupted Calacanis' speech during the event, calling it "conference spam" and igniting a war of words on their blogs. .... October of 2009 Mahalo reached 12 million unique visitors and became the 155th largest site in the United States
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Craig Newmark, Dennis Crowley, Jennifer 8 Lee: Koreatown

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/technology/12craig.html

Around noon I came across a Facebook update from Jennifer (@jenny8lee). It was a Twitter update, but since she has her Twitter integrated with Facebook. The update was from yesterday. Does anyone want to have Korean fried chicken with Craig Newmark? (@craignewmark) And I am like, shoot, I missed that one. That must have been a Friday evening thing. But another update said Saturday. So I promptly shot her an email. Any spots left? She said yes, come on over.

Jennifer is one of the very top journalists on Twitter (her account of the evening). Her guy Craig Silverstein (@csilvers) was Google's employee number one. It is like the founders of Google got together, and then when they looked around, Craig was the first person they spotted, something like that.

New York Times: Craig (of the list) Looks Beyond The Web

I was the first person to show. (@badenchicken) So I went upstairs. I saw one spot taken. I am thinking, that has got be 8's spot. So Craig will probably be sitting near there. I took a nice spot a few seats from them. But when Craig finally showed he walked right past my table on to some back table.

But guess who else showed up? Dennis Crowley, (@dens) the FourSquare guy, and he decided to sit right next to me. He was with his girlfriend (@chelsa, @pnizzle) who moved to New York City from Indiana a few years ago. "Me too!" I exclaimed.

Dennis Crowley: I Underestimated Him

Once we were squarely sitted, I told Dennis that I was at his demo at the New York Tech MeetUp last spring, "Sorry, but I did not see the FourSquare potential at that time. Now people are saying FourSquare is the next Twitter and I can see why."

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"I did not either," he said rather disarmingly.

I asked him a bunch of questions. One of my final questions was, "Let me ask you a stupid question. Why are you in New York? Why are you not in California?"

He said New York is a better location, it is more diverse. When a white guy like Dennis says diverse, he means people from different sectors like tech, media, finance, advertising, design. When I say diverse, I mean the rainbow coalition.

Towards the end Craig went from table to table. He and Dennis talked at some length.

"You helped me find my place when I moved to NYC a few years ago," I said to Craig.

"I appreciate that," he said. (@yunapark)

About 40 people showed up for the dinner.

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Deep Sherchan: Social Media To Discuss Mental Health

Mental Health Social Network is a free social networking web portal dedicated to the mental health community across the globe. With its launch, it has opened a new door for people with mental problems to connect with each other and share their experiences.

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It works in a similar way like Facebook and MySpace, with options likes profiles, Bbogging and several messaging and other various niche tools. It is specifically designed to allow people to create a helpful community and serve each other or for those who are really interested to understand the mental conditions. It also provides the necessary online environment with networking based format and options. It allows members to anonymously reach out to people and find the best fertile solutions.

Colin Spencer Wood, the company president and CEO was also diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1999. In statement, Wood mentioned, "When people suffer from mental health conditions, they sometimes feel isolated and there might not be anyone else in a patient’s life that has experienced similar conditions. This makes difficult for family and friends to relate or understand what they're going through.”

MentalHealthSocial.com is considered as the gift in such cases, which eliminates those feelings of isolation by bringing people with similar experiences together.

"Portal dedicated to talk or express.. Who can really understand their thoughts....about whatever mental conditions they are actually dealing with".

Key features of the Mental Social Media are user friendly interface where everyone can share information about themselves, post photos or videos and other offers. In addition, portal aims to support other mental health related non-profit organizations through promotions and services.

Success of Facebook and Twitter has played an important role in the launch of Mental Social Network. It can be a great platform for students associated with medical education to connect to the network and understand the mental conditions. Further, it was found in recent surveys that many US based firms operating disease control centre uses Twitter, Youtube and even games to spread information about swine flu and other medical concerns and problems. Chicago based Children Hospital is using Second Life for disaster preparedness, while disabled people turn in to virtual world for peer support.

With changing culture and technology, mental health networking can play an important role in bringing better health services to people and collaborating experience from around the world for better understanding.

(This is a guest post by Deep Sherchan, Chief Marketing Officer, InRev. InRev is the Web Information Company which owns one of the Top Social Media Management Apps – Buzzom www.buzzom.comBuzzom just hit the Alexa 10,000 rank globally.)
 

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