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50 Promising Startups

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

BusinessWeek has an interesting piece on the top 50 technology startups that you may not have heard of. I confess that it is my job to keep up on areas like this I was only familiar with around 20 of them or 40%. There are several that I think are particularly interesting.

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MTV fights to retain viewers from Facebook & Twitter

Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

It seems to me that MTV abandoned the music video format a long time ago and embraced ‘reality’ TV. Portfolio has an interesting piece about the success of The Hills and how MTV is going to double-down with more meta-reality.
It’s a risky strategy. With these shows, MTV is betting on a particularly elusive sliver of [...]

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Giant Tesla Coils

Posted on 20. Jun, 2009 by admin.

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iPhone 3G S vs. iPhone 3G

Posted on 20. Jun, 2009 by admin.

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Crunchpad

Posted on 20. Jun, 2009 by admin.

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2012 Trailer

Posted on 20. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

How cool does this movie look?, from the director of Independence Day and the Day After Tomorrow, if you like end of the world movies, this is for you.

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Iran Elections

Posted on 20. Jun, 2009 by Rory McCafferty.

I think it has been pretty well documented how social networking has allowed much more freedom in passing of information out of Iran. When we are let down by the networks such as CNN many of us turned to Twitter/Facebook blogs etc. The format of one pundit on one side and one with the opposing [...]

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