Weekend Favs June Eighteen
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Weekend Favs June Eighteen
First independently published author joins ?Kindle Million Club?
Giving hope to aspiring novelists everywhere, Amazon.com announced today that an independently published author has joined the “Kindle Million Club.”
John Locke is the eighth author to sell over 1 million Kindle books. The 60-year-old�Louisville�businessman-turned thriller writer joins …
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Don't Forget Your Logged Out Users
I find myself saying this quite often these days to entrepreneurs and their product teams. It's something that I've noticed working with leading social platforms like Etsy, Twitter, Tumblr, and others. Services such as these have a large number of...
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BranchOut Could Be a Break Out Hit For Facebook Job Seekers
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LinkedIn, of course, is the social networking champ in this space (even though its stock price is down from its post-IPO thrall). Is their room for another service?
The idea is a similar one: increase your networking and job-seeking potential by targeting someone at a company that you want to work for, but don't necessarily know first-hand. If you can find someone in your existing network who does, you can relay your interest through your common friend and hope to at least get a toehold and a potential meeting set up.
BranchOut duplicates many of the same features found in LinkedIn: you can create networks, search for job openings or people at specific companies, seek endorsements from people you have worked with and pay for premium services (in their situation, it cost $99 vs. LinkedIn monthly fees starting at $25). You can also automatically import your LinkedIn account information via their app to get started easier. Once you have your account setup, the service recommends people that you might know who aren't yet in your network, similar to what LinkedIn does - although with LinkedIn you can see the context by which you might know someone and how many common connections you both share, both missing from the current BranchOut version.
Like Foursquare, there are badges and other eye candy that you post to your Facebook Wall, all to attract more people to the system and promote your own activities.
However, most of us have created our LinkedIn networks using professional contacts for the most part, and these networks may be more useful in terms of connecting job seekers with the right people. For example, I have more than 2,200 connections on LinkedIn, and when I loaded BranchOut, only had 160 connections there. The BranchOut app was a bit sluggish and somewhat buggy, and I had to reload it a few times to complete the initial setup.
It is worth checking out, if nothing more than to have something professional to do on Facebook or if you have yet to establish your beachhead on LinkedIn. But if you are an experienced LinkedIn user with a well-developed profile and make use of Groups and Answers on that service, you are probably better off staying put rather than learning something new.
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Canvas
I posted this on the USV blog yesterday but thought I should share it with the AVC community as well. ---- We are big fans of communities at Union Square Ventures. The partners in our firm have been investing in...
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New List of Small Business Conferences, Webinars and Events
Every other week we compile a list of great events to help you with your business. The following Small Business Events Guide is worth a close look:
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June 20, 2011, New York City
Meet and mingle with Crain?s 2011 Top Entrepreneur winners.
Launching a business in this uncertain economy is not for the faint hearted, and yet many NYC entrepreneurs are taking the plunge. What does it take toRead More
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New List of Small Business Conferences, Webinars and Events
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iPad for Business Round-Up: Accellion, a Dropbox for Enterprise, and More
This week we look at new apps form Accellion and WebFOCUS, and more.
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Accellion Mobile Apps
Accellion is a sort of "Dropbox for enterprise" service that provides a set of security features poised to help IT managers sleep better at night. But what about mobile access? One of the key advantages to using an app like Dropbox is that I can access my files on Android and iOS devices.
This week, Accellion released its iOS version, bringing mobility to the secure file storage system.
WebFOCUS Mobile Faves
WebFOCUS Mobile Faves allows WebFOCUS Business Intelligence users to view, analyze and modify data stored in their WebFOCUS systems from their iPads or other iOS devices.
We looked at other business intelligence apps for the iPad previously.
Google Sync for iOS Improves
Google Sync is an app that lets you sync the native e-mail and calendar apps on the iPhone and iPad with Google services through Microsoft Exchange. This week Google rolled out some changes:
- You can now search all of your Gmail, not just the e-mail stored locally on your device.
- You can accept and decline appointment invitations from the iOS calendar app.
- You can take advantage of the "send mail as feature," which lets you change the name and return address on your outgoing e-mail.
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Did Sprint really get in bed with LightSquared?
LightSquared, the company trying to build a wholesale 4G wireless network using a mix of FCC waivers, satellite spectrum, a to-be-built terrestrial network and a helluva lot of gumption may have signed a deal with Sprint.
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Trover lets you catalog and share life?s hidden gems
If you think downloading yet another mobile app featuring photo-sharing, geo-location, and social networking is crazy, prepare yourself for a moment of insanity. MeetTrover, a nifty new iPhone app launched in May that perfectly fills the gaps left by Instagram, Foursquare and Yelp.
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Defogging Cloud Computing: An Interview With Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain
Image: Google Man/Wikimedia Cloud computing, like a thunderhead, is abuzz with energy. From Apple's iCloud to Best Buy's new cloud music service, companies are scrambling to up the ante on their cloud offerings. Despite all the hype, it's... Read more
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SocialSpring's New Enterprise Microblogging Services
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Answers looks a lot like Quora or SocialText or other Q&A-style social services, see the screenshot below.
The Links service is another URL-shortening service with a few added features, including being able to password-protect the shortened link and also have it automatically expire, appropriate for doing time-sensitive demos for example. It looks like this:
One issue to SocialSpring will be how quickly it can be adopted and deployed across a company. Obviously, the more ubiquitous the apps, the more useful it will be for a workgroup or entire enterprise.
Pricing for the three services is based on per user per month charges of $2 for Stream and Answers, and $1 for Links, with free trial versions available. Installations can either be hosted on Intridea's cloud or behind a corporate firewall, the latter is already being used by some early customers.
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Will Sprint benefit from LightSquared?s broken LTE network?
Troubled wholesale mobile broadband provider LightSquared has confirmed today that the company has entered a 15-year deal with Sprint to provide�high-speed wireless service for the carrier’s 4G LTE network,�reports Bloomberg.
The news comes on the heals of an …
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