Shift Happens at HaveMyShift.com
September 13, 2010HaveMyShift.com is a Chicago startup, founded by Sean Corbett, that provides an online exchange for hourly shift workers. The concept is simple. As an hourly employee, such as a barista.
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Edward is the founder and CEO of Techli.com. He is a writer, U.S. Army veteran, serial entrepreneur and chronic early adopter. Having worked for startups in Silicon Valley and Chicago, he founded, grew and successfully exited his own previous startup and loves telling the stories of innovators. Email: [email protected] | @EdwardDomain
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University Multimedia Boot Camp Utilizes Social Mapping Platform
September 10, 2010Incoming master’s students, at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, took part in a six-week news writing and reporting course resulting in the Secs in the City website.
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How Kris Peterson Created A Successful Daily Deals Company From His Kitchen Counter
September 10, 2010Kris Peterson was simultaneously training for the Chicago marathon and buying tons of Groupons. He couldn’t use all the Groupons he was buying and ended up losing the money he.
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Startups
In-Game Sponsorship – The Way of the (Mobile Advertising) Future
September 9, 2010Tap Me Inc. is revolutionizing the mobile gaming experience, providing an attractive solution for both advertisers and gamers. Currently, most mobile advertising is done through banner ads or other web technology which link to an outside website. If a user chooses to click on the advertising, his or her gaming experience is interrupted while he or she is connected to an outside site. Tap Me Inc. provides a seamless user experience by integrating advertising directly into the game, using what they refer to as an “in-game sponsorship and rewards systemâ€.
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Google announces Instant search
September 9, 2010On 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.
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Startups
Adventures in Epublishing: Step 2
September 9, 2010If you’ve been following me here on Flyover Geeks, you may have seen the initial Adventures in ePublishing article. I’ve been following epublishing genius J.A. Konrath as I’ve traveled down.
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Watch out Twitter, PingGadget Is Coming For You
September 8, 2010PingGadget hit my radar last week and I immediately thought to myself, “Oh great, a twitter clone that isn’t Twitter but wants to be. Lame.” Being dedicated to reporting on all the tech news in Flyover Country requires me to investigate and report on every story that I think would interest our readers and so I checked out PingGadget just to see what, exactly, made them think they could take on twitter.
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Coming Soon: A New Social Media Recommendation Tool, Solving Your Social Media Conversation Overload
September 6, 2010Social media provides a great vehicle for marketers, thought leaders, and individual contributors who share information organically. Despite the myriad of social media applications, many communicators still struggle to communicate accurately and effectively to their target audience. Meanwhile, the intended audience is left to their own devices to sort through mounds of superfluous information on a daily basis. n2, a new social media optimization and recommendation tool, offers a solution to those facing information and conversation overload.
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Editorial
How Nate St. Pierre Made A Business Out Of Changing The World
September 5, 2010A while back, while leading a web team at a big company in Milwaukee, Nate St. Pierre participated in a leadership workshop. One of the questions was “Next year, I.
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Apple’s problem – $elling Mac$
September 3, 2010Written by: Dario D. STILL, less than 4% of computers worldwide are Macs. I dislike that fact, because Macs are just as good as PC’s, in my opinion (not better,.
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