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Your Social Media Presence as the Tie Breaker for Prospective Customers

On September 15, 2011 By

So its official, after months of agonizing over which SaSS Recurring Billing platform to launch our new product with, I have chosen Chargify over Recurly. While I researched and compared features and costs based on my business requirements, the decision actually came down to something else – their social presence. At the end of my [...]

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My favorite start-up got bought :-(

On July 23, 2010 By

Following on the heels of my post last week about the Google acquisition of MetaWeb, my favorite start-up Ellerdale announced that they’ve been acquired by Flipboard. As a reminder: Ellerdale, founded in 2008, has developed a Web Intelligence technology that applies semantic analysis to large, real-time data streams to extract relevant and valuable information. To [...]

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RE:The Mega Meta Opportunity (and Google buys Metaweb)

On July 16, 2010 By

Well, less than 24 hours after I posted The Mega Meta Opportunity, Google announced their acquisition of Metaweb. Normally this is where I would insert some smirky comment like “damn I’m good”. But admittedly I’d never heard of Metaweb and just got lucky on the timing of the announcement. Instead, I’ll be grateful to Google [...]

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The Mega Meta Opportunity

On July 15, 2010 By

Seth Godin provided a teaser on his blog today about the lurking opportunities with metadata (information about information) that I’d like to expand on: “Many people and organizations are contributing to this mass of data, but few are taking advantage of the opportunity to collate it and present it to people who desperately need it. [...]

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