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Chicago startup, MentorMob, accelerates to Kaplan TechStars New York

  MentorMob, a Chicago-based startup, has moved to New York to begin its tenure with TechStars. Team members are seeking mentorship opportunities and influence in a new city. MentorMob is a crowd sourced learning platform whose community creates “learning playlists” out of the best of the web. “We want to make it easy to connect [...]... Read More

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    Google Announces Partnership With Startup Weekend

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    Google has just announced a partnership with Startup Weekend — a global organization committed to promoting real entrepreneurship in local communities. Startup Weekend holds 54-hour startup events that bring together entrepreneurs from engineering, product, design, marketing, and business backgrounds. They all work together over that three day period and then they launch a product. It’s [...]

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    Gmail gets a Facelift?

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    Your inbox may be getting a facelift courtesy of Google. Blogger Carlos Jimenez uncovered a Youtube video that was uploaded today by Google and then yanked quickly after. WhenWired Magazine asked for a comment, a Google spokeswoman said Thursday, “Oops, you weren’t supposed to see that. Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing more info on Gmail’s new look soon.” [...]

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    3 Reasons Why I Bought Google Stock Yesterday

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    The past month has seen a lot of activity from internet search giant Google. After years of stagnant share values, I believe investors are willing to give the long-suffering technology company another shot. I am too. In June 2008, when I turned 18 and opened a trading account, I made the following three trades: I [...]

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    Facebook + Twitter + Google = A G+ Experience

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    “Not to say that I’d sacrifice my firstborn for a Google+ invite, but… hit me up on gmail if you’ve got an invite burning a hole in your inbox.” Yes, admittedly, that was a post of mine on Facebook back on June 29th. The “firstborn” bit was, obviously, mentioned in jest, but I can guarantee [...]

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    Google+: Growth Strategy for a Billion Dollar Startup

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    Like a bunch of tweens trying to get into a Justin Bieber concert, tech enthusiasts everywhere are scratching and clawing for invites to Google+, the social networking service that Google launched into field trial on June 28th. With social circles, group video chat, and most importantly data portability, I’m here to tell you that this [...]

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    On The Tragedy of Google

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    In political science, there is a term, “imperial overstretch”, used to describe the overweening, overreaching behavior of large, “imperial” powers. Such behavior inevitably leads to the imperial power stumbling over itself. Whether this imperial power is The Roman Empire around 400 AD, Britain circa 1776, or (and this is controversial) America circa right about now, [...]

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    Google’s Algorithm is Outdated in the Age of Social

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    Back in 2000, it made perfect sense to rank sites by inbound links. If a lot of people were linking to it, it must be good right? Billions of dollars and queries later, the answer to that question is apparent. Google’s algorithm is phenomenal, but 2010 deserves better.

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    Boutiques: Fashion Gets Googled

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    Google has stretched its might to many aspects of the web and our lives. This week marked the Beta launch of Boutiques, a fashion website offering mini closets based on celebrity, designer and blogger styles. Upon signing up for an account, the first option users are presented with is Stylyzer. Two pictures are displayed for [...]

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    Google announces Instant search

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    On Wednesday Google announced its latest enhancement called Instant. Instant is a smart feature that predicts what you’d like to search and displays results as you type. For example, if I start to type Flyover Geeks in my google search box, once I get to the “v” I start to see results for Flyover Geeks. [...]

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