January 2012
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Reddit's Next Move Against SOPA: Boycott. →
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Protest Sopa: Representative Zoe Lofgren Addresses... →
Yesterday was important. Emails and phone calls poured into the US Capitol. The message in opposition to SOPA/PIPA was clear. As I was on the floor of the House yesterday, I can assure you that the actions taken were noticed by the Representatives. For myself, I was inspired that millions of…
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Rupert Murdoch Doesn't Get It
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Don’t care about people not buying movies, programs or newspapers, just stealing them.
— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) January 18, 2012
Rupert Murdoch pretending to understand the Internet. I don’t know of anyone stealing newspapers. He is also a supporter of SOPA and PIPA. Tweet him and let him know that he has no idea what he is talking about.
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Anonymous Weighs In With This Tweet
protestsopa:
███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ #stopSOPA #J18 #SOPAblackout
— AnonOps (@anonops) January 18, 2012
Retweet for support!
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December 2011
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App Of The Day: Face-Invaders: Shoot Your Facebook... →
Thanks to Facebook I’m able to catch up with friends from high school and college. Also thanks to Facebook I’ve learned that some of my friends from high and college are completely bonkers.
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Get Your Censor On #SOPA →
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Swap Your Jawbone Up For a Lark Sleep System: Free →
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Destroy Your Friends with Face-Invaders →
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Hands On Video of the New New Twitter →
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Cuban Government Launches Facebook Clone: "Red... →
Truly Geek: 5 Things a Geek (Entrepreneur) should... →
trulygeek:
After having enjoyed a previous article by Andrew Torba about “5 things to know before dating a Tech Entrepreneur” (Tech.li), I started thinking and came up with the following response.
Dating an Entrepreneur (here affectionately called: geek) is definitely not easy, necessitating a lot of…
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Who's Using Google+? #Infographic →
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5 Reasons to Buy Grandma a Kindle →
Anonymous asked: Hi Andrew. I'm new to Chime in & saw you're following me. Back at ya. : ) I'm hoping you can help since no one else can. I have done the latest update on my ipod & ever since I can not get my apps to load back on. I heard that Apple had some crash that effected itunes accounts. I am burnt out on searching on line for help & trying endless ideas that just don't...
November 2011
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Android-Powered "Smartwatch" Moves Mobile to Your... →
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5 Things to Know Before Dating a Tech Entrepreneur →
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Are You Popular? 200 Startups Want to Give You... →
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The Evolution of Technology and Education... →
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Erasing the Taboo of Suicide in your Startup
Late Sunday night, Techcrunch broke the shocking news that Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of the open source social network Diaspora, died tragically at the age of 22. CNN reported that the cause of death was suicide. I’d like to take the time to say a few words about the subject in hopes of erasing the taboo that encompasses suicide and raise awareness of a very serious issue that many...
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Education Startups Promote Interactive Learning
The education system has always been “behind the 8-ball” when it comes to applying the use of emerging technology in the classroom. Unless you are studying science or engineering, chances are you will not be utilizing the tools of the Internet to learn. Fortunately two startups hope to change the way we view technology and learning, not only in the classroom, but also in the comfort of our...
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How Do You Teach "Entrepreneurship?"
This semester I enrolled in the introductory class for the new Entrepreneurship minor at the University of Scranton. Over the course of the semester, our class hosted several guest speakers ranging from a tech entrepreneur with several exits to a local franchise owner. Each of these entrepreneurs displayed several common themes throughout their presentations: passion, finding your complement,...
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Jawbone Up Band: Full Review
About a week ago, the Bluetooth headset development company Jawbone released its newest product, the UP Band. UP is a wristband that tracks your daily sleep, movement, and eating activity and then records it to an iPhone app. Over the past week I’ve been using the product in hopes of giving the Tech.Li community a practical review of this interesting gadget…………….....
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Does Your Startup Have a Social Media Persona?
Recently I was scrolling through my News Feed on Facebook and I stumbled upon a post by the local ice cream stand, Bitty Bill’s. Bitty Bill’s is owned and operated by Bill Sweeney, an entrepreneur who recognizes the importance creating a social media persona for his brand. I was delighted to discover that for the rest of the day everything in the stand would be 50% off. READ...
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How No-Texting While Driving Laws Could Affect...
With the rise of tech entrepreneurship across the country, what will these laws mean for companies that develop apps specifically designed for drivers? READ MORE….
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Did Disney Channel's "Smart House" Predict Apple's...
In 1999, Disney Channel aired an original movie called Smart House. The movie’s main character, Ben, wins a computerized home in an online contest. A cyborg maid named PAT (Personal Applied Technology) controls the computerized “Smart House”. PAT, which sounds eerily similar to Apple’s Siri, can handle all of the cooking and cleaning chores of the house along with setting personal diets for each...
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Instinct: A New Way to Learn Music
Calling all music lovers! Get ready for a new way of learning with Instinct. Instinct is a “virtual music teacher” created by Blake Jennelle of New York, New York. Blake is a young entrepreneur and developer who teamed up with his complement developer Brian Stoner to rethink musical education. The basic concept of Instinct lies within its unique three step learning process. First you...
October 2011
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Why Women Make Excellent Entrepreneurs →
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Nest-A Thermostat Created by the Guy Who Invented... →
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Top 3 Stories in Tech- Saturday 10/22
Brought to you by TruthfulTech.com At the end of every night I like to gather all of the major Tech news of the day and systematically organize the most important stories in my mind according to importance. I say to myself “Ok these major events broke in Tech news today, remember them.” Each day I’ll present a few new articles with my own unique take on the information they are...
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Oink
Ok, I have to give Kevin Rose the benefit of the doubt: there are no domain names left, so I guess there is nothing he could do about his choice of branding. The bigger question is: will anyone use this? According to the Zuckerberg Theory, the amount of information we share doubles each year. Oink appears to be taking advantage of this theory with its “ranking of everything”. So...
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Does Social Media Make Our Brain Bigger?
Time.com had an interesting article today about a recent study testing the hypothesis that social media makes our brains bigger. Isn’t the answer obvious? Social media allows us to connect with anyone in the world. Everyday a massive amount of knowledge passes before our eyes in the various news feeds and Chimelines we read. To exemplify this, tomorrow as you read through the various...
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@NIKIMINAJ Marketing Efforts Shutdown by Twitter
Rapper, businesswomen, and pop superstar Nicki Minaj launched a viral Twitter campaign this afternoon in an effort to promote her new video, Nicki Minaj PSA. Nicki prompted her fans to trend #NickiMinajPSA by 7pm and she would release the video. Fans had the tag trending within minutes only to have it removed by Twitter. Twitter may have viewed Nicki’s marketing efforts as a way of her...