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Below is my presentation from the NY Video 2.0 meetup in October. I go on about 2 minutes in. At the end of the meetup we were voted best demo of the night with 46% of the votes. Thanks NY Video!

I can’t wait to see a FourSquare ‘most popular spots’ rankings by category across the US or the world (which could be accessible online as well, not just via iPhone). It would be like Michelin or Zagat, but of the people, for the people, and by the people.

The better news: this is the kind of post I like — with lots of real numbers that you can crunch and get your own insights. The bad news: there’s not a whole lot of ad money right now in iPhone apps, at least not in free casual video game apps it seems.

I’m currently at SXSWi hanging out with the entire internet. One of the absolute highlights of the event so far was the keynote by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.

Following my recent B2B marketing post, here is the follow-up post on attracting a critical mass of end-users to your web service. Below are some basic practices you can use to increase the chances of your web offering taking off, and possibly attaining that elusive viral traction everyone wants so badly.

When senior leadership isn’t fanatic about building amazing products, it sets the stage for various ailments that plague mediocre products, for example design-by-committee, or making decisions based on how things currently work in the industry instead of how they should be working in a better world.

Selling your startup’s products to other companies requires different tactics than attracting non-paying end-users (which I will cover in the next post), especially when you have limited startup resources. Here are some useful and cost-effective approaches you can use to generate B2B revenue — without recruiting a large sales force or allocating a hefty advertising budget:

In preparation for Boxee’s anticipated public alpha launch later this week, I thought I’d share a few thoughts.

My good friend and former classmate Larry Mai of Iron Monkey Ventures just launched a new Twitter mashup called Map My Tweeps. Like the name implies, the app allows you to see where around the world your followers and followees (is that even a word?) are located.  If you input your user name only, you’ll [...]