Last week, a new Facebook application borrowing on Second Life’s theme of an alternate, digital reality, announced it’s launch. Much like Second Life, Dot Friends is a virtual landscape where friends can hang out, chat, buy virtual products, but .Friends ties in a Facebook users’ profiles, allowing a more seamless transition into their offline worlds. “While…
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Call it social signals, your digital reputation, your online footprint – your online search results matter – a lot. Once you sit down and absorb what that actually means, it is quite a sobering thought, whether you are a professional with a full-time job, a freelancer, or a startup looking for funding. With several sessions…
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The personal recommendation has become a highly valued tool for selecting the right products, services, and employees. We tend to trust information that has been supplied by someone we know to have good judgment. Perhaps nowhere does reputation matter more than in our interactions in the business world. Honestly is a website featuring candid community-created…
Read MoreTrust. Integrity. Reputation. Three powerful words that we’ve tackled before on Social Media Hour, and this week we take them on again. This time around it’s through two different lenses – the impact on making news from the realm of crowd sourcing it, and the idea of utterly anonymous professional business reviews and the impact…
Read MoreGood, bad or ugly we all have an online reputation. Online reputations have become easier to sculpt with the prevalence of social media, which can be a double edged sword as negative information can also easily be associated with your rep. Reper, a Cambridge-based startup that has yet to officially launch, is looking to offer…
Read MoreThis probably seems fairly obvious to most people, but what you say online can stick around for quite sometime and help to either further or hinder your career. Everyday, we are all building an online reputation that affects our offline lives. While there have been many stories about people using their online reputations to help…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More