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Foursquare co-founder on dealing with data overload

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 …?

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03 2011

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posted in apps, Article, comments, current-events, disruptive technology, Foursquare, Glympse, india, iPhone Apps, lifestreaming, location-based, mobile, tablet, tips, tools, twitter, Uncategorized
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Vokle gives a voice to the masses (sort of)

It looks like Vokle wants to become the video chat forum for the masses. Originally envisioned as a political platform, Vokle makes it so easy to broadcast and receive real-time streaming commentary that it just might make public debate over the Internet a reality. The platform has also been embraced and roundly praised by Arrianna Huffington … but I like it anyway.

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07 2010

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posted in community, disruptive technology, government 2.0, lifestreaming, media, municipal government, new media, Podcast, Podcasting, Politics, practice, president o'bama, Quick Review, realtime, remote, social media, social media tools, social networking, startup, technology, Telephony & Voice Over IP, the business of law, tools, Video, youtube
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Pwned! Google just bought your future!

"We Didn't See This One Coming"

While the Precogs could not be reached for comment, according to this story on TheNextWeb Google has acquired Recorded Future – a company that, yes, predicts the future. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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05 2010

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posted in collaborative tools, current-events, Google, knowledge management, lifestreaming, media, new media, radical transparency, realtime, records, search, tags, technology, tips, tools, websites, Wisdom of Crowds
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Sweet Twitter Visualizations (Seriously)

Below find one of 4 visualizations of Twitter influence and interaction put forth by the Harvard Business Review (HBR). Props to Steve Rubel for this post and HBR for doing all the work. In case you’re wondering what this all means …. I don’t know yet. But I do know what it’s better to have information than not, and the unexamined Twitter feed is not worth reading. So there you go.