President Obama’s State of the Union address last night covered a wide variety of topics, from Wall Street regulation to healthcare reform to jobs creation and more. One of the most interesting snippets from last night, however, was a quote regarding capital gains taxes for small business investment, which I tweeted about as (potentially) being [...]
Entries from January 28th, 2010
VC Free From Capital Gains Tax?
January 28th, 2010 · View Comments · VC
Tags:capital gains·Obama·State of the Union·taxation·VC·venture capital
Apple Tablet Live Streaming
January 27th, 2010 · View Comments · tech
Engadget Live Blog Stream: Engadget
The “Growing Pains” of Traditional Media
January 21st, 2010 · View Comments · tech
After the New York Times’ announced yesterday that it would charge frequent readers of NYTimes.com starting in 2011, many have been discussing this move’s implications for the rest of the newspaper industry, an industry that is also representative of traditional media as a whole. In contrast, what is it about the model of new media [...]
Tags:journalism·Mashable·new media·New York Times·newspapers·Pete Cashmore·RSS·traditional media·Twitter
The Power of Social Media for Haiti
January 17th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent, tech
In a post from December, I wrote about how social media has become more than just a way for people to keep in touch and network online, how social media has become a force that can change lives and accomplish objectives by leveraging the power of millions of interconnected people. This past week has definitely [...]
Tags:American Red Cross·Doctors Without Borders·Haiti·mobile philanthropy·social entrepreneurship·social media·Twitter·WorldVision
Support the Relief Effort in Haiti!
January 15th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent
I donated to Doctors Without Borders, but there are many helpful organizations out there! Have you helped out yet? Here are a couple more suggested organizations, passed on from the foundation begun by my company’s co-founder: The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional support to victims of disasters; supplies nearly half of the [...]
Tags:American Red Cross·Doctors Without Borders·Haiti·International Medical Corps·Médecins Sans Frontières·MSF
More Services You Should Use in 2010
January 13th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech
This is a continuation of my January 7th post on new services to use in 2010. Lala is for those of you out there who are music lovers. It’s also part of the movement towards non-native applications that operate in the cloud. So you may already have iTunes or Windows Media, which operates natively on [...]
Apps You Should Use in 2010!
January 7th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech
…that is, if you don’t already! Here are some of the ones I use. Some are new, and some not-so-new, but I’ve found all of them to be very useful. Dropbox is great. I started using Dropbox during my second semester senior year primarily so I had a place to store large attachments instead of [...]
Tags:digital media·Dropbox·Foursquare·Gilt·Gilt Groupe·internet·Tokbox
