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“I’m an inventor.
I became interested in long term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not in the world in which it is started.”
- Ray kurzweil
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O’Reilly Methodology

“The future is here. It’s jusrt not evently distributed yet” – William Gibson
We “watch the alpha geeks” and think about the futures they are living in
We then look for trend data that tells us that a particular future if …

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Last Monday, Mike Volpe and I attended an event hosted by The Ad Club where Foursquare Co-founder Dennis Crowley was the keynote speaker.
We grabbed a few minutes with him at the end of the event. After briefly chatting about the Red Sox and Foursquare’s $5.99 SXSW booth, Dennis offered some tips on how companies could use Foursquare to help build their businesses.

Read more at: blog.hubspot.com
Related links:

FourSquare for business
HubSpot

If you are an Entrepreneur or a Marketer, the name Seth Godin requires no introductions, he is one of the few individuals today who not only writes beautifully about Marketing and Entrepreneurship in a manner that makes sense, but he also eats his own dog food:

His dog food being his blog and his books
The place where he eats it is at Squidoo, in his books and seminars

So now he wants to go on the road, and in his typical style, he’s going to let his …

Five months ago, right around the time that Andrey Ternovskiy was building Chatroulette, no one could have predicted that being “nexted” would become the modern day equivalent to a rite of passage.
But after three days of coding, Ternovskiy introduced his pet project for random video chat to friends, then users of Web forums, and from there things just spiraled.
When the New York Times talked to the 17 year-old Ternovskiy earlier in the month, he confessed that, “Last month I saw 30 million unique visitors come to the …