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• TECH cocktail In Beantown Sign-up Now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:54 pm

  Tags: Business, Community, Compete, Entertainment, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Eric Olson, Event, Fun, Geezo, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Zoominfo, Boston, Techcocktailbost

  September 6th Time: 6:30pm - 9pm Venue: Tequila Rain  (on Lansdowne Street right behind Fenway Park) Cost: $0 plus free drinks - yup, it's free! RSVP here TODAY: http://techcocktailboston1.eventbrite.com/ Yes, you read right.  The event is free and will include free drinks (you must be 21 years old to attend) and other great stuff

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• The New New Internet Is Coming Soon

  Published: August 16, 2007, 10:15 am

  Tags: Business, Business Blogging, Conferences, Education, Event, Frank Gruber, Internet, Om Malik, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Strategy, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech

  Conference on November 1, 2007  in Reston, Virginia (northwest of Washington, DC). I am pleased to be among the a solid list of speakers for the sessions which includes Om Malik, Brad Feld, Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk, Ryan Carson among others. The speaker list continues to grow everyday as addition sessions are locked down. As a

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• Are You Addicted To Facebook?

  Published: August 22, 2007, 11:36 am

  Tags: Facebook, Internet, Media 2 0, Poll, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Weekly Video

  >Take Our Poll</a> If you are unsure if you are a Facebook addict, you might want to watch this short film (below) created by Joel Jost showing just what a Facebook addiction might be like. Then go update your Facebook status. :) Add Somewhat Frank Weekly Video to

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• Free Online Video Guitar Lessons

  Published: September 1, 2007, 5:47 pm

  Tags: Fun, Innovation, Justin Tv, Justinguitar Com, Learning, Media 2 0, Music, Other Aspects Of Life, Resource, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Video, Video Blog, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Weekl

  your skills. Read/Write Web recently wrote an article listing a number web 2.0 sites and services for musicians. I recently found one that was not mentioned but is worth mentioning called JustinGuitar.com (no this is not Justin.tv). JustinGuitar.com is the creation of Justin Sandercoe a London-based guitarist, songwriter, performer,

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• A Video Tribute To Internet People

  Published: September 8, 2007, 8:59 am

  Tags: Comic, Fun, Humor, Internet, Media 2 0, Social Media, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Video, Video Blog, Viral Marketing, Vlog, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Weekly Video, Internet Famous, Viral Video

  user contributed content of Web 2.0. Thanks to the animation of Dan Meth, on his ChannelFrederator series The Meth Minute 39, we now can enjoy a tribute to all those viral video stars of the past couple of years. Check out the video tribute to Internet People (shown below). Add Somewhat Frank Weekly Video to your page

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• Do You Do Good With E-Waste?

  Published: September 15, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Environment, Gadgets, Good, How To, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Trends, Video, Video Blog, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Weekly Video, Iphone, Ipod, E Waster, Magazine

  With Apple putting out iPods and other products out every quarter it inevitable that you will want to get rid of some of your old electronic equipment or e-waste. What do you do with your old electronics? Good question right. Well, you can recycle it - what else can you do? Good Magazine has produced another fine video examining the e-waste

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• Do You Do Good With E-Waste?

  Published: September 15, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Environment, Gadgets, Good, How To, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Technologies, Technology, Trends, Video, Video Blog, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Weekly Video, Iphone, Ipod, E Waster, Magazine

  With Apple putting out iPods and other products out every quarter it is inevitable that you will want to get rid of some of your old electronic equipment or e-waste. What do you do with your old electronics? Good question right. Well, you can recycle it - what else can you do? Good Magazine has produced another fine video examining the e-waste

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• A Video Tribute To Internet People

  Published: September 8, 2007, 8:59 am

  Tags: Comic, Fun, Humor, Internet, Media 2 0, Social Media, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Video, Video Blog, Viral Marketing, Vlog, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Weekly Video, Internet Famous, Viral Video

  user contributed content of Web 2.0. Thanks to the animation of Dan Meth, on his ChannelFrederator series The Meth Minute 39, we now can enjoy a tribute to all those viral video stars of the past couple of years. Check out the video tribute to Internet People (shown below). Add Somewhat Frank Weekly Video to your

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• Picking TechCrunch40 Winners

  Published: September 20, 2007, 2:59 am

  Tags: Business, Conferences, Mint, Techcrunch, Techcrunch40, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Techcrunch20

  applicationFlock - social web browser - makes it easy to interact with social networks *MusicShake - Korean startup that makes it easy to build music with blocks - all the music is owned by MusicShake and business models includes a rev share for the music creators*8020 publishing - community magazine publisher (includes JPG and Everywhere) -

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• From Patriots Football to Film Preferences: Kraft Group Spinout Matchmine Launches Portable Personalization Platform

  Published: September 25, 2007, 3:10 pm

  Tags: Kendall Square Blog, Media, Entertainment, Web 2 0, Culture

  Entertainment, Web 2.0, culture Wade Roush wrote:Remember when computer scientists promised back in the 1990s that we’d all have artificially intelligent “personal agents” running cyberspace errands for us, booking travel, filtering the news, and finding things we like? A new widget for personal computers called a

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• New Upcoming Web 2.0 & Tech Conferences

  Published: September 26, 2007, 1:19 am

  Tags: Blogging, Blogging Tip, Blogosphere, Blogs, Business, Business Blogging, Conferences, Rss, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Syndication, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Widgets

  truly been an action packed 2007 web/tech conference season thus far. I previously listed a number of conferences to attend in 2007 but since January a number of new ones have popped up. I wanted to highlight few additional conferences as they are approaching  and you might want to get your tickets booked today. Widget SummitOctober 15

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• Video: Why Facebook Works For Me...

  Published: October 6, 2007, 11:56 am

  Tags: Business, Dave Mcclure, Education, Facebook, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Video Blog, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web 3 0, Web Tech, Weekly Video, Matt Monohan, Social Networks, Stan

  Facebook usage has been on the rise and with it, a frenzy to create Facebook applications. What's all the frenzy about? Dave McClure, an advisor for several startups and non-profits, has created a new course titled, Creating Engaging Facebook Apps at Stanford University to help answer that very question. For the course, Matt Monahan has created

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• Video: Why Facebook Works For Me...

  Published: October 6, 2007, 11:38 am

  Tags: Business, Dave Mcclure, Education, Facebook, Social Media, Social Networking, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Video, Video Blog, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web 3 0, Web Tech, Weekly Video, Matt Monohan, Social Networks, Stan

  Facebook usage has been on the rise and with it, a frenzy to create Facebook applications. What's all the frenzy about? Dave McClure, an advisor for several startups and non-profits, has created a new course titled, Creating Engaging Facebook Apps at Stanford University to help answer that very question. For the course, Matt Monahan has created a

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• TECH cocktail Chicago Six Is Coming

  Published: October 23, 2007, 11:47 pm

  Tags: Chicago, Community, Event, Social Media, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Tech Cocktail, Techcocktail, Technologies, Technology, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Eric Olson, Frank Gruber, Fun, Tech Cocktail Chicago 6

  Eric Olson and myself in May 2006. This will be our sixth Chicago event and eighth overall (DC and Boston). Here are the details: Venue: John Barleycorn Wrigleyville (Map) Time: 6:30pm -9pm Date: Thursday, November 15th Cost: FREE!!! RSVP HERESponsors and demos are still not totally locked down but will be soon. If you are a local

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• Valley Earthquake Shakes Out Twitter's Value

  Published: October 31, 2007, 1:02 am

  Tags: Aggregator, Alerts, Community, Media 2 0, News, Personalization, Personalized, Resource, Rss, Social Media, Social Networking, Social News, Somewhat Frank, Somewhatfrank, Somewhatfrank Com, Startup, Technologies, Technology, Twitter, Web 2 0, Web 2 0 Culture, Web Tech, Earthqu

  broadcast and at least 25 minutes later in closing they briefly mentioned the quake. Twitter had me informed long before it was announced on the local news. The quake tonight is just one example of what I am talking about. I had a similar experience when I was reporting an earthquake while in San Francisco in July. While Twitter can

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