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Innovative Social Shopping with Bunnybot

Friday, 02 November 2007 by Paul O'Brien

As I shop for the holidays I am repeatedly faced with the same challenge, a discussion that ensues something like this: – I’d love to get the TiVo Series 2 HD DVR – That’s the thing that records TV right? – Um… yes, but you have to make sure it is a Series 2 –

Published in Comparison Shopping, Fun, Social Media, Vertical Search, Web 2.0

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TechCrunch TC9 Download

Friday, 27 July 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Having spent the last few hours at Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch Meet-Up, I sit here struggling to find some criticism of the event simply for the sake of a buzz worthy post. The fact is, the party was flawlessly executed from logistics to music, drinks to demos, and all with a crowd of industry elite akin

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Published in Conferences / Events, Fun, Vendors / Agencies, Vertical Search, Web 2.0

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Marketing with Zvents – SEO and Shopping in One

Friday, 22 June 2007 by Paul O'Brien

The announcement has been made, not long ago I left HP to join the brilliant group of folks creating a remarkable event search technology at Zvents. Considering yourselves Mr. and Ms. America (not Mr. and Ms. Marketer), I’d be remiss (and not doing my job) to not mention that Zvents is where you want to

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Published in Local, Search, Surplus, Web 2.0

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Creating Remarkable Awareness and Buzz

Monday, 21 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Through a masterful execution of online video, Harvard, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., the Smithsonian Institution, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) announced a project which aligns biology, zoology, and software experts from around the world to create a beautiful wiki of all known living species. Why,

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Published in Brand Marketing, Display Advertising, Fun, Social Media, Web 2.0

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Killer Startups and Web 2.0 Developments

Wednesday, 09 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

I spent a few minutes at True Ventures last night, home to comparison shopping datafeed start-up SingleFeed (of which, from time to time, I’ve encouraged your consideration). That entrepreneurial environment holds tremendous appeal for me due to the passion, innovation, and risk taken by all who endeavor to create and I always enjoy translating offline

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Published in Blogs & Blogging, Fun, Social Media, Web 2.0

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Digg Hostile Takeover

Wednesday, 02 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

The definitive web 2.0 news directory was inundated with users lashing out to Digg’s catering to industry. With the cracking of HD-DVD encryption codes, the movie industry has been stumbling over themselves with cease and desist letters to prevent sites from redistributing the key. Related articles were removed from Digg resulting in dozens of seemlingly

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Published in Social Media, Web 2.0

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A Little Digg Will Do Ya

Monday, 30 April 2007 by Paul O'Brien

Clocking in at 465 diggs yesterday, SEO’Brien went down for the count, unable to handle the hundreds of hits per second. My apologies to those that tried to reach the site, I’ve moved the server to a different host and we’re alive and kicking again. Here’s the article Not About Self-aggrandizement This experience made me

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Published in Change Log, Insights / Research, Social Media, Web 2.0

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