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I love seeing what many of our opinion leaders in Congress are sharing on amplify. However, I know they have interests besides politics and I imagine they would find a lot in common with many folks that may not share all of their political tendencies. I believe these shared interests could foster greater relationships and we'd be better for it...

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Posted by Chris Parandian  1 hour ago

@techcrunch covers top ten vc blogs…

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demo at techocktail…

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Every so often, venture capitalist Larry Cheng puts out a list of the top VC blogs. Previously, he ranked the blogs by how many subscribers they have on Google Reader. But now he’s changed his methodology and is ranking them by average monthly unique visitors, based on Compete data. He just came out with his new global ranking for the fourth quarter of 2009. Below are the top ten blogs from that list.

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Posted by Chris Parandian  4 days ago

Foursquare traffic is hot!

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giving a demo at techcocktail…

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Location is Hot: Foursquare Traffic up 3X in 2 Months

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 4, 2010 1:45 PM / 1 Comments
Location sharing social network Foursquare saw traffic to its site triple in the last two months since November, according to new numbers from traffic analyst firm Hitwise today. Read more at www.readwriteweb.com
 
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Posted by Chris Parandian  4 days ago

@geoffliving on text-based fundraising…

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This is a really nice post on the challenges of texting campaigns.

Amplify’d from mashable.com

5 Real Challenges For Non-Profit Texting Campaigns

Close examination of texting-based fundraising reveals a wide variety of barriers for 501c3s, including the use of mandatory foundations and ASPs (application service providers) to interact with carriers, a stringent vetting process to become accepted, limited donation amounts of $5-$10, limited short codes, and shared costs with partners (in some cases, the wireless carriers). Even after setting up text-based fundraising mechanisms, non-profits face the challenge of limited function integration, and appealing to donors.Read more at mashable.com
 
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Posted by Chris Parandian  4 days ago

Apple / Verizon to connect on Wednesday?

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Lots of buzz that Apple / Verizon will have some big news tomorrow. What do YOU all think?

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Verizon Wireless to store managers: Wednesday is a big day

Uh oh. More Apple tablet-related news? It would appear so, as we have just been briefed on what could be a solid Apple / Verizon connection.

Read more at www.boygeniusreport.com
 
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Posted by Chris Parandian  14 days ago

LBS - Location Based Suicide…

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This is an excellent post and just reaffirms my decision not to “become the mayor” of X…

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Committing Location Based Service Suicide

Yesterday I checked in for my last time.  I’m done.  No more BrightKite, FourSquare or Gowalla.  I was an early user on all three of the services, and am quitting cold turkey.

Well, why anyone would care can only be pointed to me just being a point of data as a heavy user leaving the services. I was a poweruser.  878 posts on Brightkite, 703 checkins on Foursquare, 54 stamps with Gowalla, and I had enabled geotagging on my twitter account and posted over 2000 messages.

All I got were quite a few stalker like experiences grouped with a shift of my thinking about location based services from expression of physical identity to needless ego boost.

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Posted by Chris Parandian  17 days ago

Foursquare releases BlackBerry App

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hmmm.. will i take the plunge now?!

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Foursquare Releases Beta BlackBerry App

Over the past couple of months Foursquare has been testing their private beta BlackBerry app.  Like any other application they wanted to make sure all the bugs were fixed before they released it to the public.  Well it appears the app has been tested enough and Foursquare for BlackBerry is now available to everyone.Read more at www.berryreporter.com
 
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Posted by Chris Parandian  18 days ago

Verizon, following GoogleVoice, offering free calls to Haiti

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/01/20/need-to-call-haiti-its-…
Earlier this week, Skype offered up a few bucks of SkypeOut credit to anybody in Haiti; shortly thereafter, Google announced that any calls …Read more at www.mobilecrunch.com
 
 
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Posted by Dave Levy  19 days ago

Apple and App Sales…

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A nice look at the App market and Apple’s current domination…

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Apple responsible for 99.4% of mobile app sales in 2009

The latest report from market research firm Gartner suggests that mobile apps are big business, and that business should only grow in the next few years. According to Gartner’s numbers, Apple completely owns this market, grabbing almost every one of the 4.2 billion dollars spent on mobile apps in 2009. Based on Gartner’s estimates and our own analysis, Apple could hold on to at least two-thirds of the market if current sales trends hold for 2010.

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Posted by Chris Parandian  21 days ago

From @RWW: Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things: Barcode Scanning

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Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things: Barcode Scanning

Written by Richard MacManus / January 12, 2010 6:00 AM / 1 Comments

What Will be The Tipping Point?

In Japan, barcode scanning is already a popular activity thanks to the culture of using mobile phones for just about everything. In the U.S., where the Mobile Web took longer to ramp up, barcodes are yet to catch on. However there’s one market where barcode scanning could become a mainstream activity in the U.S. and other countries. No, not magazine publishing - although there are valid advertising use cases there. We’re talking about scanning retail products using your mobile phone.

By the end of 2009, a lot of barcode scanning apps had gained popularity in the iPhone and Android, in particular. In November we listed our picks for scanning and other mobile shopping apps to test over Black Friday.

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Posted by Dave Levy  28 days ago
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