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Startup City: Mobile Giving Foundation
In December 2007, Jim Manis founded the Bellevue-based Mobile Giving Foundation to establish an infrastructure for mobile charitable giving. After the earthquake in Haiti, the Mobile Giving Foundation worked to support more than 20 nonprofit organizations and helped set up … Continue reading
Why the iPad Won’t Revolutionize the Market
At this point most people are pretty tired of hearing about the iPad. Those that love it keep raving about it, and those that are dissapointed just want people to stop talking about it. However, I think it’s good to … Continue reading
To Curate Or Create, That Is The Question
Down in Half Moon Bay, Robert Scoble started a discussion on Sunday about the value of “creation” versus “curation” — a discussion centered around Wednesday’s media event at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino. Should he attend the Steve Jobs press event and … Continue reading
Mo’ Money – Amazon’s New Royalty Scheme For Authors and the Kindle
Amazon made an announcement last week about the Kindle e-reader and changes to their royalty scheme for authors that may have caught your eye. I will do a quick recap: Amazon announced it is providing authors and publishers with a … Continue reading
Developing Community Scholarship in J-school
Trust is perhaps the most critical element as the media become “democratic, decentralized and diverse” as Hanson Hosein stated early in his presentation, “The Storyteller Uprising” at Seattle’s Town Hall. There are many experiments in developing trust, like NPR’s model … Continue reading
The New York Times may charge for content
Update: The New York Times announced on January 20 that they will indeed begin to meter content, starting in 2011. Read the Times’ statement here. Bloggers’ reactions? Mashable predicts that the number of sites linking to the Times will decrease, … Continue reading
I Can Has Video? Web video & Cheezburger Network’s billionth video view
Seattle-based Pet Holdings, Inc., CEO Ben Huh (purveyor of beloved LOLcats and many other hilarious image macros) contracted with me to produce his Cheezburger Network’s 3rd Anniversary Video, an effort to celebrate the 3-year anniversary of icanhascheezburger.com and the 1 … Continue reading
Mobile donations are making a difference in Haiti
Today I donated $10 to the American Red Cross to support the catastrophe in Haiti by texting “Haiti” to 90999. It was that simple (See actual screenshot at left). As of a tweet this morning (Jan. 14), the Red Cross … Continue reading
