January 2, 2008
I spent many summer days as a child attempting to sell lemonade to anyone that passed by. I cannot say it was that lucrative a business and recall spending a lot of time waiting and waiting for lemonade customers. Aside from a solid suntan from my hours spent waiting I also learned that lemonade stands are all about location, location, location. Lemonade has taken the idea of the "lemonade stand" to the Web making it easy to recommend items you like on sites where you already have visitors.
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November 2, 2007
The DC area was looking a little more like Silicon Valley this week, welcoming a number of prominent bloggers, social media consultants, tech company product managers, startups, VC's, and more - well, with the exception of all the dark suits in the audience which made it a great Silicon Valley/DC mashup scene. Such was The New New Internet Conference - Web 2.0 for Business, presented by Potomac Executive Biz at the Reston Hyatt on Thursday, November 1st.
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October 23, 2007
AdaptiveBlue, a startup that focuses on a smarter browsing experience, had just made its SmartLinks easier to use by making automated. SmartLinks offer site owners the ability to link to a widget that when clicked displays related items (i.e. books, music, people, etc). SmartLinks offer site owners to add utility and the social dimension to links within the site.
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August 23, 2007
AdaptiveBlue, a startup that focuses on a smarter browsering experience, has created feed output for its SmartLink functionality. This is feature called appropriately, SmartLink Feeds will make it easy for anyone to take pull in the feed from a SmartLinks widget and display it on their blog, website or personalized homepage. SmartLinks are collected via AdaptiveBlue's BlueOrganizer.
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July 9, 2007
AdaptiveBlue, a company founded by Alex Iskold a contributor to Read/Write Web, offers a couple of different ways to create a smarter browsing and personalized experience by connecting users with an array of services. By leveraging Mozilla's platform AdaptiveBlue has created BlueOrganizer, a Firefox extension that makes it easy to...
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