Quoted: I have received a free ticket to the startup 2009 conference based on being nominated for an award. I am on the west coast this entire week and won't be able to attend. If you would like to take my ticket, leave a comment and I will pick a random person at noon on Tuesday. You must be in NYC and be available Wednesday. The event is a mix of startup

Quoted: Last week was all about Bing and Wave - both products the respective companies believe will change something about what we do online. Master search engine journalist Danny Sullivan has an indepth review of Bing which is worth reading (along with his partners comparison review). In the "coming soon" video, Microsoft classifies Bing as a "decision engine".

Quoted: Cable tv and Internet provider Comcast has put out a release today with tips and ideas for parents who want to talk to their teens about social networks like Facebook and MySpace. I must be old because growing up parents were supposed to talk to their kids about drugs. Comcast actually has an entire security site which, among other things, tells us

Quoted: I will be in Seattle from Monday afternoon through Wednesday afternoon this week attending the Search Marketing Expo and would love to meet some Seattle-based startups. Send me an email if you'd like to meet (myfirstname - at - centernetworks.com) I am looking forward to traveling from the airport to the hotel on the Seattle city bus system for a travel

Quoted: Found via the LICNYC blog and created by The Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center, Oasis Map might be one of the most interesting NYC mapping services I've seen to-date. The Oasis Map offers a variety of criteria for viewing including a neat look back all the way to the year 1609! You can search by block, ZIP code, neighborhood, community

Quoted: Apologies in advance for a semi-technical post on a Friday night but I think it's a topic worth discussing. Over the past few months I've noticed more and more sites that are copying pieces of content from one social service and placing it into another social service or blog/website. Is this a good idea? If I post a message on Twitter, it is instantly

Quoted: The post below was originally posted on the Zoho blog and is authored by Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu. Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft's new search engine Bing. The real interesting contrast to us, as independent

Quoted: Yesterday for a brief moment, lots of tech bloggers removed the twitter auto-post function and replaced it with excitement over the Google Wave announcement. I've read posts that say Google Wave will replace the Web as we know it and then I read posts that say nearly the opposite. I am just wondering, did anyone else immediately think that Google Wave