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• Instant Messenger Love Song Video

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:08 am

  Tags: Aim, Aol, Fun, Instant Messenger, Internet, Media 2 0, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Video, Vlog, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Weekly Video

  Add Somewhat Frank Weekly Video to your page I recall getting online for the first time and how exciting it was to be on the World Wide Web. I am sure many people have similar stories of your first encounters the WWW. This video of Nick Thune performing his acoustic rendition of his love story "Instant Messenger" live on The Tonight Show which

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• SeeqPod Scouring The Web For Music

  Published: August 10, 2007, 12:36 am

  Tags: Beta, Internet, Music, Music Search, Recommendation Engine, Recommendations, Search, Seeqpod, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Iphone

  SeeqPod, a "playable search" product born in the UC's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, offers music search that scours the Web for music in both audio and video formats. Upon finding music you can play it immediately and add it to a playlist which can then be embedded into other pages like the playlist I quickly pulled together

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• Global Grind: Startpage For Hip Hop Gen?

  Published: August 10, 2007, 12:15 am

  Tags: Ajax, Beta, Feeds, Global Grind, Media 2 0, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Personalized, Rss, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Homepage

  Global Grind, currently in private alpha, is a New York-based web 2.0 personalized home page startup that is said to be focused on the "hip hop" generation. Being a "hip hop" listener I was curious to see what this intriguing value proposition was all about. Driven by curiosity, which was said to have killed the cat, I was expecting Global Grind

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• spigit Simulates To Help Innovation

  Published: August 8, 2007, 12:49 am

  Tags: Beta, Blogging, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Community, Content, Data, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Games, Innovation, Media 2 0, Small Business, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0

  Spigit launched into beta in mid-July to offer up a startup simulation game to help entrepreneurs showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process connect with a network of professionals. Spigit seems to have blended a multiply player online simulation game with a social network while aimed at creating a new company. Spigit can act as a

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• Contactify For Quick, Easy Contact Forms

  Published: August 7, 2007, 5:11 pm

  Tags: Contactify, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Email

  I have been getting lots of people asking me lately, "how do you submit a site for review on Somewhat Frank?" So I decided to make a simple email contact for submitting a new startup, site or service by leveraging a startup called Contactify. It made creating an email form easy. Contactify makes it possible to remain contactable, with never

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• Amazon Buys Into Amie Street Approach

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:06 pm

  Tags: Amazon, Amie Street, Business, Community, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Funding, Media 2 0, Music, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  Amie Street, Rhode Island-based music startup with an interesting online  music business model by allowing prices to be based on artist interest and demand, has taken a Series A round of funding led by Amazon.com. Though many were skeptical of Amie Street's model, I thought Amie Street could disrupt the music industry and it turns out

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• KnockaTV Is Coming But What Is It?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 8:38 am

  Tags: Beta, Community, Entertainment, Knockatv, Media 2 0, Recommendations, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Television, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  KnockaTV is coming, according to the vintage "I want my MTV" style video that is playing on the site (go to the site to see what I am taking about). I just signed up for a beta tester account for KnockaTV last night and this morning I noticed TechCrunch also is looking at the video service but we both have about the same amount of information.

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• TECH cocktail Boston Coming Soon

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:06 am

  Tags: Community, Event, Food Drink, Fun, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Boston, Techcocktail7, Techcocktailboston

  TECH cocktail, the tech mixer aimed at amplifying the technology signal in under served communities and having fun doing it, is going to be stopping in its third city soon - Boston.  Ironically, GigaOm recently published an article highlighting some of the startup activity in Boston and that is exactly why we have decided to make it our

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• iPhone Secret Features, Flickr Video & Tools, Google Mashup Editor, Facebook on Netvibes, Best Conferences & Twiistup

  Published: August 5, 2007, 5:48 pm

  Tags: Baseball, Beta, Blogging, Blogging Tip, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Collaborative Filtering, Conferences, Event, Facebook, Google, How To, Mashup, Media 2 0, Netvibes, Personal Homepage, Personalization, Recommendations, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Stow

  Photo of the Week: Barry Bonds hit home run 755 last night in a game vs. San Diego tying Hank Aaron for most career home runs in Major League history. John Feeley was in attendance and captured history with his zoom lens in this shot (shown above).   Somewhat Frank Weekly Tidbits: 08.05.07 Twiistup 2: 08.08.07 - Sign Up Today!Time to for

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• Vlogging Wine Expert's Conan TV Debut

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:36 am

  Tags: Blogging, Blogosphere, Business, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Fun, Gary Vaynerchuk, Media 2 0, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Television, Web 2 0, Weblogs, Weekly Video, Wine, Wine Library Tv

  Add Somewhat Frank Weekly Video to your page As I highlighted earlier this week, Gary Vaynerchuk of the popular wine video podcast Wine Library TV made an appearance on the NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien television program this week. In case you missed watching it on Wednesday evening you can watch it now thanks to YouTube. Check out the

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• HotSwap: Video Listings For Used Autos

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:52 am

  Tags: Advertising, Business, Cars, Hotswap, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Web 2 0, Web Tech

  Buying a car is a definitely a pain in the butt, as it takes a lot of time and effort. I have been thinking about it for a few months now but haven't yet rallied enough energy to do it. Wouldn't be nice if buying a car could be done by simply watching an online video? Now you sort of can. HotSwap offers free online video auto listings that

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• Personalize Your Photos With Graphita

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:37 pm

  Tags: Fun, Graphita, Media 2 0, Orli Yakuel, Personalization, Personalized, Photography, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Photos, Web2 0expo, Web2expo

  Does the photo below look familiar? You might recall the photo of myself with my good friend and popular blogger Orli Yakuel, which I clowned with the Graphita tool-set for a TechCrunch article I wrote while at Web 2.0 Expo last April. Graphita has officially launched Live Studio to make it easy to express yourself through annotating your

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• Things You Want or Have Get BoxedUp

  Published: August 1, 2007, 4:27 pm

  Tags: Aggregator, Amazon, Beta, Boxedup, Media 2 0, Recommendations, Search, Shopping, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tags, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, E Commerce

  Looking to make it easier to for people to keep track of the items that they want BoxedUp.com offers a place to help users shop and share for items that they may want. Founded in London by Chris Osborne and Jeremy Baines, the three employee team has recently morphed and rebranded its product from Gifttagging.com, a site focused on just

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• Gary The Vlogging Wine King On Conan

  Published: July 31, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Blogging, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Celebrity, Community, Cork D, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Event, Food Drink, Fun, Gary Vaynerchuk, Media 2 0, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Television, Video

  Gary Vaynerchuk, the host of WineLibrary.com's video blog Wine Library TV is a pretty entertaining guy. I got a chance to see Gary's energy in action a few months back when he both demo'ed and sponsored at TECH cocktail DC 1. Gary's love for wine and charismatic personality has created quite a following on the Web which has resulted in being

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• StreetAdvisor A Street Level Local Guide

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:31 am

  Tags: Ajax, Beta, Community, Data, Mapping, Media 2 0, Real Estate, Resource, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Streetadvisor, Technologies, Technology, Tool, Web 2 0, Web Tech, Wiki

  StreetAdvisor, an Australia-based startup, publicly launch a few months ago to provide an online real estate community powered by crowd-sourced reviews, photos, and videos. Brothers Adam and Jason Spencer wanted to create a site that provided a good amount of information of what it is like to live on any particular street in the world. With a

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