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We are open for business! LaunchBox Digital: Incubator 2.0
This is the press release that’s hitting the wires Thursday - read some of the initial coverage below Technology Veterans Establish LaunchBox Digital Launch Platform For Web and Mobile Entrepren… more »
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We are open for business! LaunchBox Digital: Incubator 2.0
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John McKinley wrote 7 months ago: This is the press release that’s hitting the wires Thursday - read some of the initial coverag … more »
Someone just took away 30+% of your savings in the last three months, and you did nothing to stop them - the disaster that is the US Dollar...
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John McKinley wrote 8 months ago: In mid-August, I wrote a post that mentioned that the softening in the US ad market was going to for … more »
Facebook thinks my friends want to know when I buy hemorrhoid cream - the culmination of a bad month for privacy, and my views on the solution
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John McKinley wrote 8 months ago: This has been a pretty wild and woolly couple of weeks in the advertising and social networking spac … more »
Yahoo: Congrats on Zimbra, but think before you consider buying Zoho, it's already old school!
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John McKinley wrote 9 months ago: This past week, I had the pleasure to attend the Techcrunch40 event. The opportunity to see 140 co … more »
Who will be the first major (Google/Yahoo/Microsoft/AOL) to break ranks and apply a fundamentally new metaphor to email?
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John McKinley wrote 9 months ago: We are in the midst of an important moment of truth - email as we know it is under attack, and the m … more »
Apple and the 700 Mhz auction - How to recover from a PR nightmare 101
John McKinley wrote 10 months ago: So I get done my post on municipal WiFi, and I start thinking more about the breaking news that Appl … more »
Why we will never see municipal WiFi succeed in the US
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John McKinley wrote 10 months ago: It is sad to see the coincidental announcements and raft of articles over the last month regarding … more »
Gphone vs. iPhone - suggestions to Google for a winning gameplan
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John McKinley wrote 10 months ago: With all the dialog about the GPhone effort, starting with a “launching in two weeks” p … more »
Redefining "Google-esque" aspirations...
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John McKinley wrote 10 months ago: Having returned from vacation, and getting my game face on for a busy week, I spent time catching up … more »
The impact of the debt markets and AOL's future - it's time for new thinking
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John McKinley wrote 11 months ago: The latest report covering the KKR buyout of First Data is disturbing at several levels. It is a c … more »
AOL Search - a case of sincere flattery, but a bad business decision?
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John McKinley wrote 11 months ago: First, let me congratulate the AOL team on its latest acquisition, Tacoda. I think that since Randy … more »
SunRocket did not crash due to a management failure, it was way more fundamental than that
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John McKinley wrote 11 months ago: So much has been written this week about the hard landing of SunRocket. People who were bullish on V … more »
Who REALLY wants to be a media company when they grow up?
John McKinley wrote 11 months ago: “Honey, I am going out to the store to buy some media for tonight.” “Thanks - can … more »
Powerset - no pretender to the throne, but the real deal
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John McKinley wrote 1 year ago: Last night was the first step by Powerset, the new search company that there had been so much conjec … more »
The race to own my digital assets - will Microsoft be in the money?
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John McKinley wrote 1 year ago: Microsoft, the ultimate deep pockets strategic funder (think of their accumulated losses in areas de … more »
Yahoo and the views of modern Martin Luthers
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John McKinley wrote 1 year ago: Reading all the various views about Yahoo over the last 72 hours, it is pretty easy to join the crow … more »
And the most compelling form factor yet for the UMPC is... As a nanobook!
John McKinley wrote 1 year ago: When the whole UMPC effort launched a year ago, I expected some real innovation from the CE communit … more »
D5 - scoring the demos - the good, the great, and the ugly
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John McKinley wrote 1 year ago: It is so nice when your expectations of an event are subsequently matched by the realities. I went i … more »
Search and the problem of Google muscle memory
John McKinley wrote 1 year ago: I just looked at last month’s U.S. search share statistics, and it was interesting to see over … more »
