Archive | September, 2007

Chicago TiECon ’07 Mentorship: Boosting Tomorrow’s Business Leaders

There are still a few seats left! TiE puts on amazingly high quality events, I greatly look forward to seeing you there! Sign up now, don’t delay! TiECon Midwest is the premier event organized by TiE-Midwest held every two years. Join us in Chicago this October 5th for TiECon ’07 Mentorship: Boosting Tomorrow’s Business Leaders, [...]

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Google Adsense for Mobile Launches

Google Adsense™ for Mobile launched yesterday. What wasn’t announced fully was if the program is different in any way than traditional Adsense. It would also be interesting to understand how Google is exactly defining mobile websites. As people start to use it, I’m sure these issues will become transparent.

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Chicago’s Enso Introduces New Beta Products – Web Search Anywhere, Translate Anywhere and More

Aza Raskin chatted me up a few minutes ago and shared with me that they are launching four new beta products Monday. These will complement the existing Humanized offerings of Enso Launcher and Enso Words which I’ve been using since shortly after I met Aza at Barcamp Chicago earlier this Summer. Enso is a useful [...]

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Suburban Chicago Silicon Prairie Social Internet and Technology Mixer Thursday

Tim Courtney sent me the following note late last week, I hope to see you there…. When: Thursday, September 20, 2007 from 6:30-10:00pm Where: Mullen’s Bar & Grill 3080 Warrenville Rd., Lisle, IL 60532 An opportunity to connect in an informal setting with like-minded people in technology; whether you’re an upwardly mobile professional, a job [...]

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New Chicago Tribune Story Writer For Chicago Blackhawks This Season

Many Chicago Blackhawks fans are understandably quite excited about #1 draft pick Patrick Kane. I am too. I actually think I might be more excited that there is a new full time writer for the Chicago Tribune, Chris Kuc, assigned to the Chicago Blackhawks this season!  Someone needs to keep Tim Sassone at the Daily [...]

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LinkedIn View Quality Rising After Non Eventful September 11

I logged into my Linkedin panel the other day and saw top tier retained search firms viewing my profile…I’ve had several other recent experiences that I can’t make public that seem to indicate a healthy reallocation of capital away from the mortgage and housing market is occurring and may in fact be accelerating after a [...]

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Yahoo! Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Strategic Data Solutions, Usama Fayyad Talks at KDD 07

My friend Bill Slawski posted some links to video of Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!’s Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Strategic Data Solutions Talking at KDD 07. You should probably drop by Bill’s place as he has written an extremely nice summary of the talk. If you enjoy that, you should likely [...]

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Youtube Already Accepting Questions for the November 28, 2007 Republican Debate

Wow, I’m amazed that Youtube has a page up to collect this material over 10 weeks in advance! That will obviously generate many, many questions from the supporters of the candidates in the race as well as issue voters: Sam Brownback, U.S. Senator from Kansas Rudy Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City Mike Huckabee, [...]

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