February 2012
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ShortFormBlog: On building out a viral network... →
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knudgeme asks: so how do you build your network out in a way to make it viral?
» SFB says: Great question. It’s a game of influence in some ways. Let’s say you’re at a party, and you’re meeting someone for the first time. However, you get to pick the person you meet. If you’re thinking in…
Good advice!
NerdyDC: A Night to Celebrate DCTech. →
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On Wednesday night, DC entrepreneurs and developers were celebrated at the DCTech Meetup. Many of the tools and ideas presented were solutions to problems that every organization faces.
Email was a big topic of the night. Contactually wants to be your email personal assistant. It reminds…
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Foster.ly Blog: Foster.ly + Intridea = A Ruby on... →
Foster.ly has partnered with Intridea to help facilitate entrepreneurship in the DC, Maryland, and Virginia via further custom development of Foster.ly’s online presence.
Intridea, a DC-based web and mobile development company (with clients…
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3 DC Area Restaurants Make the Cut for 100 Most...
by Carl Pierre
Congrats to the DC area, we clinched three spots on the roster for 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America! Open Table, the online reservations company that makes dinner reservations less of a nightmare, has released a list of 100 restaurants that they have deemed to be the most romantic in the country. The list itself is based on reviews from more than 5 million restaurants and...
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How Social Sharing Changes What You Drink →
Have been enjoying Untappd but wish it had a bit more polish. says justinthorp
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January 2012
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President Obama to host Google 'hangout' today →
What: POTUS on Google+
When: Today, January 30th, at 5:30 EST.
Where: http://goo.gl/48iYH
The White House pledges the president will answer “several of the most popular questions” submitted through YouTube, while some questioners will be invited to participate in a live conversation on Google+ … Google maintains the White House has no role in which questions will be selected. Rather,...
Don't Tase Me Bro: Occupy DC's First of Many...
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
It was bound to occur, we were all waiting for it, and it finally happened: the clash between Occupy DC and the DC Police Department.
The first of many clashes between Occupy DC participants and police occurred today when an Occupier from the McPherson Square camp got into an altercation with DC Police. The suspect attempted to block a transport van being used by...
Who Works for Startups [infograph]
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
Who works for startups?
A question we don’t really ask too much now a days, but definitely a question worth asking. What is the typical entrepreneur like? What is the archetype of a startup founder?
Gist partnered with CBInsights to create a nifty infograph exploring the statistics surrounding the demographic of the startup work force. Here are some...
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Instagram Founder Obviously Instagrams Meeting...
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
As we mentioned last week, on behalf of Michelle Obama, The White House invited some innovators to the State of the Union on Tuesday night. One of those lucky bunch was Instagram founder, Mike Krieger. It makes, of course, that the creator of the snazzy photo sharing app would use the occasion to snap a quick shot with the First Lady herself.
The invitation was...
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DC is one of the Top Ten Most Expensive Places to...
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
Just when you thought DC was bad enough with it’s unpredictable weather, horrible public transportation services, and plethora of rude people, you find out that it’s one of the most expensive places you can choose to call home.
Yes folks, DC has yet again made it onto another “Most” list, and this time we have placed within the top ten...
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How Grey DC Acts as a Startup Incubator for Local...
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
We’re all familiar with the new healthy trend of buying fresh, organic produce in the effort to combat America’s obesity epidemic. It goes without saying that many DC folk have had their fair shares of Whole Foods Salads from their infamous Salad Bar and have had some of Trader Joes delectable organic snacks and produce.
What most people don’t...
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This is ACTUALLY Newsweek's Cover For This Week....
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
I came across this extremely ridiculous Newsweek cover and brushed it off as part of the photoshopped meme-ery that makes Tumblr so great. But after checking it out, it would appear this is actually Newsweek’s chosen cover image. For real. I weep for journalism.
…Also, I’m well-aware my choosing to write about this and feature the image only...
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New Romney Ad Is...Well, VERY Effective (and...
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
Mitt Romney’s new ad is pretty dynamite. The 30 second spot is comprised almost completely from a 1997 broadcast of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. In it, Brokaw announces Newt’s ethics violations in Congress and raises questions about his effectiveness as a leader in the future.
The ad is brilliant as it delivers a gut punch to Gingrich while...
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Q: How Terrible Are DC Cabs? A: Very Terrible
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
We’re admittedly a day or so behind on this, but given all the attention we’ve given to the Uber-DC cab saga, we feel like it’s only right we bring to light the findings of DC councilwoman, Mary Cheh’s DC Cab satisfaction survey. Spoiler Alert: the results are dismal…at best.
After surveying 4025 people, the results were overwhelmingly...
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Nobody Will Be In The Oval Office Next Year!
Obama Tests Out Chairs in the Oval Office
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
Sure, Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich could make a serious run at Barack Obama and win this coming October…but they sure as hell won’t be dishing out orders and posing for photos in the Oval Office. According to reports from The Washingtonian, the storied Executive office in the West Wing may be out of commission...
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ShmooCon Returns To DC!
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
ShmooCon 2012 has come to DC!
For those who don’t know, Shmoocon is an annual east coast hacker convention that brings together the best and brightest the Tech realm has to offer for three days of demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, and discuss infosec issues of critical importance. The actual convention is held...
#WMATA Tweets of the Week: A More Rough Week Than...
I bring you all this weeks installment in #WMATA Tweets of the Week. This week has been quite a wild one for WMATA and its commuters. With yesterday’s Red Line stall, the major operations failure, and now a proposed fare hike that seems to be going through, Twitter has been on fire with amazing tweets. I have tried my best to curate the best ones of the week (many of them surrounding the...
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GeniusRocket's Newest Ad for Audio Technica is...
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
DC-based ad agency, GeniusRocket is changing the way companies share their brand with the world. Shopping your product out to production companies can be a difficult process. It’s hard to know which companies are the real deal and which are more about smoke and mirrors than an effective advertisement.
GeniusRocket, has taken the idea of sourcing creative...
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Showdown Between Occupy DC and National Park...
By Carl Pierre / @Carlpierre
For anybody in the mood to witness a good civil clash between protesters and members of a law enforcement agency, come around McPherson Square next Monday morning. National Park Services announced this morning that Park Rangers will start enforcing the NPS regulation that prohibits camping on federal parkland at the Occupy DC camps in McPherson Square and Freedom...
Ride the Lightning: DC Was Thunder Struck This...
This morning DC was hit with a nasty bout of thunder storms with lightning and thunder that actually shook buildings. The thunder was so tumultuous that it was heard in DC, parts of Maryland, and parts of Northern Virginia. The resounding booms and shakes definitely startled the DMV area. It also elicited a particular reaction on Twitter. It would seem that whenever a DC citizen hears a loud noise...
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Let The Facebook IPO Freakout Begin
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
Batten down the hatches, stuff your cash inside your mattresses and get ready to watch 276 hours of CNBC without blinking. Facebook may be close to filing for their record-breaking IPO.
Rumors this afternoon are swirling around that Morgan Stanley is close to taking the lead in underwriting the monster initial public offering that stands to bring Facebook a...
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Gets Love From Rabid...
inside the @Uber_DC scrum at Shadow Bar. video down below.
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
Last night, literally hundreds of DC residents crammed into Shadow Room on K Street to show Uber’s DC branch some serious love. As we’ve been covering extensively over the past few weeks, Uber, the popular app and company that allows you to find town car-style sedans, has come under fire from...
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Follow the Money: Which Companies Are Best Friends...
Molly Greenberg / @mollygreenberg
Ever wonder who lies in bed with your representatives? Mother Jones has a simple display of the major donors to members of Congress. Instead of seating by party, here is seating by industry contributors. The communications and electronics group seating area is pretty empty - surprise, surprise! I guess they didn’t know there was a meeting.
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WatchDEBATE HATE (via Huffington Post)
What a country, folks. Really, take a bow…
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Siri is a Bandwidth-Destroying, Infrastructure...
By Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel
Apple has really been getting getting hammered lately in the press. The New York Times has written two meaty pieces on Apple as part of their iEconomy series, the last of which called into question the dangerous and borderline inhumane factory conditions at some of their mammoth factories in China. Bad PR for sure. Unfortunately for Apple, the hits keep on coming as...
Metro Meltdown Last Night: WMATA is One Disaster...
For all of those unaware of what happened last night, due to a power outage and a systems crash, WMATA Metro cars on the Blue and Orange line experienced significant delays, some of them lasting hours. This comes right after a Red line debacle in the morning which created hour long delays for morning commuters. For many stymied metro users, the source of frustration lies with the lack of...
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WatchDC Tech Represents in Mountain View as 500 Startups Demo Day Kicks Off on Day Two
By Carl Pierre / @carlpierre
DC’s very own Zvi Band, Adam Bonnifield, and Michael Mayernick are showing Mountain View some District love as they participate in Demo Day Two for 500 Startups. For those unfamiliar with the group, 500 Startups is an early-stage seed fund and incubator program started in 2010,...