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disruptive companies: mwi

by Pete Abilla on April 30, 2006

/***** from time to time, shmula interviews companies that are disruptive-but-value-adding, either in their approach to business, their revenue model, or in their technology.  to read about the companies featured on shmula, please go to the company interview page. *****/ on today’s segment of disruptive companies, we’re speaking with joshua steimle, the founder and ceo [...]

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Diabetic Retinopathy Treatment: Inoveon, The Medical Device Startup

by Pete Abilla on April 28, 2006

Diabetic Retinopathy Treatment From time to time, shmula interviews companies that are disruptive-but-value-adding, either in their approach to business, their revenue model, or in their technology. to read about the companies featured on shmula, please go to the company interview page. it’s not often that one encounters innovation that also does the world some good. [...]

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World of Warcraft Game: The xFire Gaming System

by Pete Abilla on April 26, 2006

Today we’re interviewing Ryan Kiskis, the director of Product Management at xFire, which is a gaming platform for popular games such as Metin, World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, and others. you’re going to love this next disruptive company highlight. today, we’re speaking with Ryan Kiskis of Xfire. Xfire is the de facto standard of [...]

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university of texas at austin hacked

by Pete Abilla on April 25, 2006

university of texas at austin got hacked. i received an email today from the school indicating that the business school was hacked. ut austin was one of the schools i considered for graduate school. i never applied there, but for some reason i got on their email list. ut austin is top-notch in computer science. [...]

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disruptive companies: plaxo

by Pete Abilla on April 23, 2006

we’re pleased to present our featured disruptive company today — plaxo. here to answer our questions is the infamous mark jen - yes, that mark jen – *the* mark jen that was fired from google for blogging (he was there only 2 weeks prior to his being fired). his being fired for blogging popularized him into [...]

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tinyurl or snipurl: which is shorter?

by Pete Abilla on April 22, 2006

i’m writing this in w.bloggar — i’ve not used this desktop blogging tool before, so i hope it works. . . i conducted a completely non-scientific test here. i simply wanted to know, given two popular url-snippers, which one returned a shorter url. the real question, is this: is url-snipping good for the web. i’ll [...]

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disruptive companies: bzzagent

by Pete Abilla on April 20, 2006

Today, we’re speaking with Samuel Clemens, the director of network optimization at bzzagent. bzzagent has created a systematic, effecient, and effective way to leverage the most effective form of adverstising: word-of-mouth. sam answers a few questions and shares more about what bzzagent does and how it disruptively but positively contributes and how it is different [...]

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search engine optimization, mwi

by Pete Abilla on April 17, 2006

joshua steimle, ceo of mwi, recently published a very good white paper on search engine optimization. i’ll be trying some of his 10 tips in the next while and report on how shmula improves her rankings in natural searches. you can read his article here, or, with permission, i have posted his article below, in [...]

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