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Is Give2gether a Google Analytics for Philanthropy?

March 22, 2011

Non-profits can be the key to our local or global community success.

Everybody needs a little help every now and then. Give2gether is banking that non-profits want a little help from economic professors applying their years of study towards making online giving more efficient.

The site itself is similar to other philanthropy-enabling platforms like Kickstarter, Crowdrise or even Jumo. Non-profits can set up a page on give2gether and use it to share news and raise money…

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Analysis, Business, Money Talk, Science & Technology News

Potential Losers in the AT&T and T-Mobile Merger: Consumers

March 22, 2011

The merger would leave just three major cellular carriers in the United States.

The proposed $39 billion merger of AT&T and T-Mobile could save the companies a lot of money. For everyone else, it could cost a lot of money. No sooner did the two companies announce a $39 billion merger on Sunday than industry analysts began assessing the impact on the biggest potential losers in the deal: consumers.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Robots, Science & Technology News

Nine Jobs People May Lose to Robots

March 22, 2011

By 2013 there will be 1.2 million industrial robots working worldwide.

Are humans becoming obsolete in the workforce? All signs point to “yes.”

As IBM’s Watson proved on Jeopardy, robots are becoming smarter than people. They also make fewer mistakes and they don’t get bored.

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In The Race For More Spectrum, AT&T Is Acquiring T-Mobile For $39 Billion

March 21, 2011

T-Mobile is getting swallowed up by AT&T. Is this a good thing?

As anyone who has read a tech blog in the past few years will know, AT&T has been under attack for not being able to match the network capacity of larger rival Verizon. And when they won the majority of the bids for the open spectrum in 2008, Verizon also had a clear path to the future. Now AT&T is taking another path: buying T-Mobile…

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Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Great New Product, Historical Perspectives, Internet, New Viewpoints

Make Any Content on the Web Embeddable With Embedly

March 19, 2011

Embedly screen shot.

When traversing the web, most site visitors will stay on a page 250% longer when there’s embedded media, Sean Creeley tells me. This stat is based on findings from a Google AdWords test he ran last year.

Creeley is the founder of Y Combinator startup Embedly; Embedly’s mission is to make it painstakingly easy for publishers and application developers to add that embedded media and better engage their web users.

“The idea is to engage the user where they are,” says Creeley. “We really want to get the user where they live, instead of making them try to jump through hoops to view multimedia content.”

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Analysis, Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Business, Entertainment, Historical Perspectives, Latest Trend

Netflix Original Content Is Much More Than A Strategy Shift — It Could Shift An Industry

March 19, 2011

Three years ago, if you had asked people to choose between cable television and Netflix, the vast majority would have laughed at you. A DVD-by-mail service versus thousands of pieces of content always at your fingertips?

No one is laughing anymore.

Netflix has confirmed that they intend to pay forHouse of Cards a new show being produced by David Fincher (yes, he of Fight Club, The Social Network, etc) and starring Kevin Spacey (yes, he of The Usual Suspects, American Beauty, etc). Netflix is not paying for the full production of it, but instead they’re paying for the first-rights access to air it. In other words, they get the first “window” to show it to viewers…

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Google Recruits Scientists to Use New Media to Tackle Climate Skeptics

March 19, 2011

In an effort to help improve communication regarding global warming issues and to counter the rampant ‘noise’ made by fossil fuel industry-funded climate skepticism, Google’s philanthropy arm has launched a new program focused on bringing together scientists, communications experts, and the world of social media. Google has tapped 21 top climate researchers to be fellows on the project, and they plan on mapping out a way to get accurate, scientifically sound information on climate to the masses.

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Analysis, Business, Internet, Latest Trend, Money Talk

Groupon Could Go From $0 to $25 Billion Valuation

March 19, 2011

Less than three years after its founding, bankers are telling Groupon it could IPO at an astounding $25 billion valuation — greater than Google’s valuation when it first hit the public markets. We took a look at the lightning fast right that took Groupon to its current valuations.

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Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

March 18, 2011

At age 15, most normal people are going to high school, learning to drive, not listening to their parents, and doing things that they’ll later tell their kids not to do. Josh Buckley is not a normal teenager. At 15, he was selling his first company for just over six figures.

Today, the 18-year-old entrepreneur and angel investor has partnered with 17-year-old engineer Tyler Diaz to co-found MinoMonsters, a social game in which players collect and battle pet monsters.

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Visa Unveils Person-to-Person Payments in the U.S.

March 17, 2011

Visa customers will be able to send and receive funds.

Visa announced Wednesday a personal payments service that will allow U.S. customers to send and receive funds to any eligible Visa credit, debit or prepaid account anywhere in the world.

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Business, Education, Science & Technology News

Lisa Calkins Speaks at DaVinci Institute on Mobile App Development

March 17, 2011

“So You Want a Mobile App, Now What?”

Amadeus Consulting, a Boulder-based custom software development company, announced today that Chief Executive Officer Lisa Calkins was featured as the keynote speaker and instructor of the DaVinci Institute’s “So You Want a Mobile App, Now What?” event. The event, held on March 15 at the Institute in Louisville, CO is a part of the ongoing Inventor Bootcamp Series.

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Poor Countries Have More Piracy Because Media Costs Too Much — Report

March 16, 2011

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies, an academic report on pricing and copyright infringement in poor countries, comes to the conclusion that high media prices (as measured against the average wage in poor countries) are responsible for piracy — that is, when you control for social attitudes towards copying, enforcement differences, and so on, the largest predictor of whether a country will have rampant copyright infringement is whether the media in that country is priced high relative to peoples’ earning power.

To make their point, the authors have released the report under a provocative “Consumer’s Dilemma license” that charges escalating rates depending on whether your IP address is in a rich or poor country.

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