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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tetherless World Constellation Launch Event - June 11, 2008

Buzz Marketing for Technology

On June 11, 2008, leading authorities on the World Wide Web will gather at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for an old-fashioned debate with a social media twist. or later, and the free Microsoft Silverlight plugin (you will be prompted to install this when you first visit the Rensselaer Webcast page). or later, Safari 2.0.4

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Courseopedia Search Engine Helps You Find Courses

Bill Hartzer

I’m always fascinated by the new niche search engines that great entrepreneurs are launching. Courseopedia is a new search engine (just launched recently in beta) that aggregates courses from many different sources: it allows you to quickly and easily find courses and view comments that others have left about it.

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Visualizing My GMail Contacts

Ari Herzog

Together, these dots comprise 1,041 people in 40,363 email messages I’ve sent or received since August 1, 2008. This visualization is for August 1, 2008 – August 17, 2013. That’s the date I created my current email account. Do you see the three small orange dots in the bottom right of the above image?

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The Rise and Rise of Apple Inc

Idaconcpts

In 1976, 21 year old Steve Jobs convinced computer Engineer Steve Woz Wizniak to quit his job, and together in Job’s Cupertino, CA home they began work on an inexpensive, simple to use computer. With some 46,600 employees worldwide, a significant rise from 32,000 in 2008, Apple continues to boost its profile in the U.S.

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Six degrees of separation in instant messaging | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

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Engineering & Innovation. March 14th, 2008. According to Nature in ‘ Six degrees of messaging ,’ computer scientists at Microsoft Research Redmond lab have logged a full month of instant messengers using — logically — Microsoft Messenger. Tags: IM , Microsoft Corp. Nanotechnology.

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Name.com Caught Hijacking Non-Existent Subdomains

Bill Hartzer

The status above should read NXDOMAIN and I’d get something like when I dig a non-existant domain from Microsoft using dig nodomain.microsoft.com. That IP address displays a “parked domain” , managed by sedo.com and filled with a mix of advertising and search engine marketing, which one of those two parties (sedo.com or name.com) controls.

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The Story of Ignite Social Media, The Original Social Media Agency

Ignite Social Media

We had to utilize their engineers for the knowledge and then translate it for our target audience. The Ignite website in July of 2008, right after our first birthday. These were big clients, like Nature Made, Microsoft, Intel, and more. Our first three clients came from the agency where I was still a partner. That’s not it.