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The Inbox eXperience: waiting for Xobni

March 30th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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A favorite theme of ours is the "naming of startups". Back in 99, we named our company "anbiun" - an upside down version of "unique". San Francisco-based Xobni (backwards for inbox) is worth watching. They're mashing up analytics and email to create a more intelligent inbox. [tags]xobni, email[/tags]

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Are VCs nuts? NaturallyCurly.com nets $600k investment

March 30th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Actually, you've got to be crazy for NOT starting an internet business. Austin-based NaturallyCurly has just announced a big investment. The site, which claims 10,000 readers a day is dedicated to all things hairy & curly. The site even has a kids' section. Apparently the founders have no plans for an "adult" section. :) [tags]VC, NaturallyCurly[/tags]

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Toolbar Hell: Move over to Bzzster

March 30th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 11 comments
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How many toolbars can you install before your entire screen is toolbars?? There's no shortage of them... search, Alexa, StumbleUpon... Here's Bzzster - it makes it "easy" to share links with your friends. No need for a toolbar! [tags]Bzzster[/tags]

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Sloog: Web 2.0 logo of the week award!

March 29th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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So here's Sloog ... great logo, great name. Its existential purpose? Providing social bookmarks for Second Life. Yes you can tell (virtually) everybody that indeed you visited the virtual Toyota dealer! Yeesh! [tags]Sloog, Second Life, yeesh[/tags]

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HP Labs: Digg and the collective attention

March 29th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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There's an interesting new study published by HP's Information Dynamics Lab: Novelty and Collective Attention. It's a mathematical analysis of Digg. The authors attempt to predict the attention span of a mob of diggers, and how long they keep a new "front page" story on the front page. The conclusion: 69 minutes. ...

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Microsoft unleashes ZenZui: Tile-based mobile UI

March 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois No comments
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Launched today at CTIA, ZenZui was incubated by Microsoft's internal VC program. It's an appealing UI platform (shown on right) that assembles a number of tiles that the user can "zoom" left, right, up and down. It's an old concept. Until now mobile devices didn't have the horsepower to do this. The ...

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You could be crowned Miss Powerpoint 2007!

March 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment
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So you've just created a new Powerpoint deck entitled "Our Secret Corporate Strategy" - and you're damn proud of it!! So why not share it with other PPTphiles and enter a "slide contest". Don't worry about that employment agreement you signed - there's an XBOX 360 up for grabs!! Powerpoint is the point ...

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The Cost to Performance Ratio: the Starbury revolution.

March 28th, 2007 Mitch Brisebois 3 comments
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Everyone knows that if you're serious about playing basketball, you need $300 sneakers, right? Not according to Stephon Marbury - New York Knicks $17million a year superstar. On April 1st (apparently it's not a joke) he's releasing his new line of Starbury sneakers. They're all available for $14.98. He could have ...

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How to order a distributed denial of service attack

March 28th, 2007 Baxter 1 comment
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Sometimes as a new website owner you want to see how much more traffic your site can handle. Instead of waiting until you really do get hit with a ton of traffic, why not fake it and see what happens? Please keep in mind that the traffic will be completely useless as no real eyes ...

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