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Telepresence Bots, Software for Solar, & More Xconomy News

Time for my second update on the big technology and business stories that have been keeping me busy lately.
It’s been an incredible privilege to get to know so many of the founder-entrepreneurs from this summer’s class of Y Combinator companies. Continuing myseries of YC profiles, I wrote a story on September 20 about Whereoscope, which [...]

#NewTwitter, Google Instant, iTunes 10, & More Xconomy News

September 17 0 Comments Category: Startups, Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

This is the first in a series of roughly semi-monthly summaries of my major articles in Xconomy.
At this point, Google has all but confirmed that it’s working on a social networking play, though it’s not clear yet whether “Google Me” is going to be a coherent service comparable to Facebook or just a set of [...]

Social Media Mega Update

September 17 0 Comments Category: Writing & Journalism, Xconomy

I’ve been making an effort to use today’s social media channels more effectively to spread the word about all the great stories we’re putting out at Xconomy. This blog is part of that strategy — I picked the so-called “Antisocial” Wordpress theme because of the cool social-media buttons on the left side of the screen. [...]