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RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011

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RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Can you say “Privacy Lawsuit?”

This item speaks for itself. Class Action lawyers … enjoy!

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Now it’s a party …

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Recently posts like this one have speculated that we may be experiencing yet another bubble. If you’re playing our home game you know that’s bubble #3; the dot-com boondoggle, the Web 2.0 inflate-a-thon, and now … Color.

What is Color? A photo-sharing App with wrinkles like automatically merging photos with those of every other user within 150 feet. Bam! Instant photo network with total strangers. That’s not creepy.

Business models aside however, here’s the thing. Color just came out, has never made a dime, and may never work out. But it just got $41,000,000 in venture capital funding. Sound familiar? Does Pets.com ring any bells? Netscape? Webvan? Kozmo? Flooz? Gov.com?

All coming back to you? Maybe it’s time to put your money into something stable like Tulip Bulbs.

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Podio – One app to rule them all, One app to bind them

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It’s Basecamp … it’s Highrise … it’s DropBox … it’s Yammer … it’s … Podio? Yes it is. And it’s on your iPhone, your iPad, your Android device, and in your office. Danish start-up Podio has elegantly married file sharing, contact management, task tracking, real-time asynchronous communication (i.e. Twitter functions) and more into a single, easy to use, free package. Did I say free? Yeah I did. Free for up to 10 users in a company. $99/year for up to 25. That makes Podio a no-brainer for solo’s and small law firms. Compare what it does and what it costs with the bill of goods you’re currently being sold by legal technology vendors who assume lawyers are too uninformed, gullible, or busy to check up on them. It’s shameful. Meanwhile, Podio integrates functions that the more tech-literate among us now use in Basecamp, Dropbox, Yammer, and other applications. But for most lawyers Podio will simply be a revelation and unbelievable resource. Hey, did I just save you thousands of dollars in useless, bloated office software? I think I did. You’re welcome. And by the way: Boom Shakalaka!

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Foursquare co-founder on dealing with data overload

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Naveen Selvadurai, co-founder of Foursquare, offered up advice at this year’s SXSW conference about living with the constant data bombardment we face every day. In his words, there’s no stopping the data fire hose, but there are ways to cope. After making some suggestions he pointed out that it helps to have a “killer ‘fro like mine; chicks dig it. Well, that plus my millions of dollars. But you know.” Words to live by.

It helps to have a killer ‘fro and live in the fast-lane. Yeah chicks dig that. Sorry, what was the question again …?

Foursquare Adds Recommendations

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Foursquare, the mobile application that allows you to check into locations around town like a lab-rat in a maze, can now tell you where to go as well. Now that’s a feature! Impress your friends by earning meaningless badges. Get drunk at your favorite watering hole and post compromising picturesRobert Scoble does it. Who are you to decide it’s a pointless waste of time?

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