Here’s the ‘winner’ of the bunch:
– “My company, Flat-Club, is developing an online marketplace to help students and alumni of top universities find short-term accommodation by leveraging existing social networks to create trust.”
via Happy New Year! Here Are Some Great One-Sentence Startup Pitches | TechCrunch.
SEC letter lists questions for Groupon before IPO | Consumer | Crain’s Chicago Business.
The SEC questioned why a money-losing startup used $940 million of $1.1 billion in venture capital to partially cash out early investors rather than invest in growth. Many analysts and some potential investors raised similar questions.
1 in every 5 minutes of time online is now being spent on social networking sites, up from a mere 6% in early 2007. The sites, led by Facebook, now reach 82% of the world’s internet-using population — about 1.2 billion people in total. This growth is happening across countries, with 41 of the 43 countries that the web measurement firm tracks showing penetration of 85% or more.
This is really cheap — $2.99/year.
Update: The .com price is still $10/year. $2.99 is for .info. I wonder why no one wants .info?
Since Gogo launched in-flight Wi-Fi connectivity in 2008, the company has provided more than 15 million wi-fi sessions to more than 4.4 million registered unique users. Currently, Gogo has contracts to add wi-fi to another 525 planes. Gogo-equipped planes represent approximately 42% of the company’s revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2011. The company’s earliest contract, which last for ten years, expires in 2018.
via In-Flight Wi-Fi Company Gogo Files For $100 Million IPO | TechCrunch.
livin’ the dream · A Step-by-Step Guide to Transfer Domains Out Of GoDaddy.
Not sure about using NameCheap however.
FCC green lights first white space broadband device
The authorized model in question is the KTS Agility Data Radio. “The ADR is a software-defined radio that offers unparalleled flexibility,” KTS literature promises. “It can access more spectrum and support more throughput than any radio product on the market today.”
The black 3.5 x 5.0 x1.4-inch machine weighs almost three quarters of a pound, can take on channel sizes up to 5MHz, and services data rates up to 4Mbps.
Pinterest content has something for everyone, but the site is dominated by images featuring home décor, crafts, fashion, and food. Not surprisingly, visitors to the site in the 12 rolling weeks ending December 17th skewed female (58%) and between the ages of 25 and 44 (59%).
According to new research from HTTP Archive, which regularly scans the internet’s most popular destinations, the average size of a single web page is now 965 kilobytes (KB), up more than 30% from last year’s average of 702KB.
via The web in 2011: HTML5 dominates Flash, trouble for data capped mobile surfers | ExtremeTech.
To get rich in the world of cloud computing, you first need to focus on a skill that’s in high demand, which is the kind that will pay very well. Second, work for an organization that provides some return on equity around the use of those skills. Typically, that means a hot technology startup or perhaps a small publicly traded technology company that’s now moving to the cloud. Wait a few years, sell your stock, move to beach, then repeat.
via How to get rich in the cloud | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld.
And that’s all it takes. 🙂