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Age is no barrier to success…

April 2nd, 2009 · Comments

One of the blogs I subscribe to, The Blog Herald, recently carried a fairly standard story about an company acquisition. In this case, it caught my eye, because it’s Teens in Tech acquiring The Youth Bloggers Network.
The CEO of Teens in Tech is 16-year-old Daniel Brusilovsky, while 15-year-old Patrick DeVivo runs the Youth Bloggers [...]

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Tags: Digital Culture · Digital Publishing

Online collaboration isn’t always an easy option…

August 13th, 2008 · Comments

There’s a tendency to look at User Generated Content and online collaboration as an easy way to create content, products and services without some of the hassles of a traditional business.
And it’s easy to understand why: No ground rent, no equipment or infrastructure costs, no limitations on who can be involved etc. And no need [...]

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Tags: social networks

It’s been a long – and wet – weekend

July 7th, 2008 · Comments

It’s amazing how blogging guilt can motivate a post at 10.40pm on a Monday night, but I’ve been a bit lacklustre. Mainly because I had a great weekend hanging out with my baby son, playing a little Xbox 360 (Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 is still my game of choice), and generally staying off the laptop [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Uncategorized

The internet will always develop new niches… make them yours…

October 20th, 2007 · Comments

Ever wondered why networks tend to grow more quickly if they allow groups of self-form?
It’s because, no matter how well you know your subject and your customers, you’ll never predict their most interesting motivations for starting a group. And the ones that you might dismiss can end up being incredibly popular…
Take, for example, [...]

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