Thursday, December 22: 109th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 109th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable, on Thursday, December 22, 2011, 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to watch

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Personalization Will Make Strides in 2012

Trust Apple to show the way. Yes, again! With Siri, personalization makes a significant leap forward, and now the media is abuzz with other possibilities – from Siri on Apple’s version of the television, to Best Buy’s catalog now available on iOS, and for Siri to help shoppers shop at BestBuy. All this is very

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: Artisan Infrastructure, Austin, Texas

Artisan Infrastructure (AI) is a wholesale infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider that delivers infrastructure on demand through a global network of more than 250 service providers. Partners include national and international managed service providers, systems integrators, software developers, communications providers and value added resellers. Artisan Infrastructure helps its partners eliminate the capital expense of

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Lauwers, CTO of Avistar

In today’s global marketplace, efficient video conferencing is a must. Since 1984, Avistar has been offering such services to its clients in the education, health care, finance, manufacturing, entertainment and media industries. Over the years, the company has made video conferencing faster, smoother and more affordable for its growing global clientele. Says Avistar on its

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Building a Virtual World from Berlin: Smeet CEO Sebastian Funke (Part 5)

Sramana: What are the most common gifts people tend to give each other? Sebastian Funke: They give rings, necklaces, furniture for virtual houses, and a lot of other items. We have a separate catalogue for gifts. People cannot buy them for their own use.

Catching Up On Readings: Dancing Our Way Into The New Year

Long-time readers will know that the week between Christmas and New Year’s we take a break from Tech Stocks and most of our regular series to end the year on a fun note. In the coming days, look for a fabulous coffee cocktail recipe, posts on everything from the waltz to West Coast swing, and

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Web 3.0 and the Argentine Tango: Community, Personalization, Vertical Search

Social dance is a natural for building wonderful, sticky, rewarding communities around. What are missing from the tango community are well-thought-through mechanisms to naturally facilitate the community’s interaction needs. Some very old-fashioned forums still work amazingly well. Tango-L is a mailing list that numerous aficionados have been using for at least 15 years to discuss

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Outsourcing: Fabio Rosati, CEO of Elance (Part 7)

SM: I find this model incredibly compelling. I actually am a huge believer of the growth rates. I think it’s going to go very well. I think it’s going to be a $10 billion, $15 billion, $20 billion economy. FR: I think it’s going to be bigger than that. We’re at the beginning of this

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