Recent Comments Tumblr (3.0; @danielbentes)http://www.danielbentes.com/<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/C5wrcNX9LeY/how-to-avoid-mediocre-co-found.php">How to Avoid Mediocre Co-Founders</a>: <p><img alt="entourage_hiring_jan10.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/images/entourage_hiring_jan10.jpg" width="150" height="153"/>Just because your college roommate won the university’s engineering award in 1996, does not mean he’ll perform well in a VP role now. Early-stage startup teams come in many forms and while it’s…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/358981427http://www.danielbentes.com/post/358981427Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:37:05 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/IM-xTBnSc7U/">VeriFone’s Square Competitor Hits The App Store. Hands On With The Hardware.</a>: <p><img title="verisquare2" src="http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/verisquare2.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="267"/>As we noted back in December, <a href="http://verifone.com">VeriFone</a> wasn’t just<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/10/verifone-rushes-to-announce-square-competitor-jack-dorsey-comments/"> going to sit back</a> and let <a href="http://squareup.com">Square</a>, the <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/01/jack-dorsey-square/">new startup by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey</a>, dominate the iPhone/iPod touch payment space….</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/358981936http://www.danielbentes.com/post/358981936Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:37:05 +0100<a href="http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/ipad_big_picture">★ The iPad Big Picture</a>: <p>There was a meta-message in today’s Apple event, not about the iPad in particular, but rather about Apple as a whole. Jobs’s brief preamble included a bit of extra emphasis on the fact that the…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/357789444http://www.danielbentes.com/post/357789444Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:57:14 +0100<a href="http://www.iddictive.com/2010/01/28/catwalkgenius-crowd-funded-fashion/">CatwalkGenius: Crowd-Funded Fashion Lines</a>: <div style="float:right;margin-left:10px"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iddictive.com%2F2010%2F01%2F28%2Fcatwalkgenius-crowd-funded-fashion%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iddictive.com%2F2010%2F01%2F28%2Fcatwalkgenius-crowd-funded-fashion%2F" height="61" width="51"/></a></div> <p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.iddictive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Picture-9.png"><img style="border:1px solid black;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px" title="catwalkgenius.com" src="http://www.iddictive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Picture-9.png" alt="" width="430" height="432"/></a></p> <p style="text-align:left">This one isn’t exactly new, having launched at the end of 2008, but it’s certainly worth a mention as a business that combines passion with a funky business model.</p> <p><a href="http://www.catwalkgenius.com/">Calkwalk…</a></p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/357789445http://www.danielbentes.com/post/357789445Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:57:14 +0100<a href="http://netcomiphone.no/2010/01/27/iphone-og-ipad-blogg/">iPhone og iPad-blogg?</a>: <div> <br/><p>Apple har fylt et tomrom i livet mitt jeg ikke visste eksisterte med sin nye <a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/">iPad</a>. Jeg tar gjerne med meg en sånn i sofakroken.</p> <p style="text-align:center"><img title="ipad" src="http://netcomiphone.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ipad.png?w=300&h=185" alt="" width="300" height="185"/></p> <p>La meg først si at det er lite nytt å si om hva NetCom…</p> </div>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/356972497http://www.danielbentes.com/post/356972497Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:05:24 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/RCl9YccQ9-0/4_tech_trends_you_must_understand_to_be_an_effecti.php">4 Tech Trends You Must Understand to be an Effective Marketer</a>: <p><img alt="marketing_0110.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/marketing_0110.jpg" width="150" height="112"/>The days of SEO as the primary traffic driver to your website are over. Don’t get us wrong, organic search engine optimization isn’t about to disappear as a key traffic driver. And thankfully,…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/354492835http://www.danielbentes.com/post/354492835Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:49:38 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChristopherBlizzard/~3/cw5ZkdAJxJI/">HTML5 video and H.264 – what history tells us and why we’re standing with the web</a>: <p><em>For background on the free software angle on this story please check out <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/01/video_freedom_a.html">Robert O’Callahan’s post</a> on this topic. Also check out <a href="http://shaver.off.net/diary/2010/01/23/html5-video-and-codecs/">Mike Shaver’s shorter background post</a> as well. This post differs…</em></p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/352894350http://www.danielbentes.com/post/352894350Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:24:29 +0100<a href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-01-25-n52.html">How Fast Do Friendfeed Results Appear in Google Web Search?</a>: <p>I just got my phone’s stop watch ready and posted the following sentence into <a href="http://friendfeed.com/philipp/c00da2cd/this-is-unique-sentence-with-number-321192301">Friendfeed</a> (one of Google’s <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html">special partners</a>):</p> <p>“This is a unique sentence with the number 321192301 that has never…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/352720150http://www.danielbentes.com/post/352720150Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:39:03 +0100<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2010/01/23/coffee-makes-you-dance-around-like-a-goat.aspx">Coffee makes you dance around like a goat!</a>: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/stevecla01/WindowsLiveWriter/d072d4e978de_12FB2/coffee_2.gif"><img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;margin:0px 20px 0px 0px;display:inline;border-top:0px;border-right:0px" title="coffee" border="0" alt="coffee" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/stevecla01/WindowsLiveWriter/d072d4e978de_12FB2/coffee_thumb.gif" width="700" height="5915"/></a> <br/><p>Hence why I’m cutting down my intake these days <img alt="Smile" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/stevecla01/WindowsLiveWriter/d072d4e978de_12FB2/wlEmoticon-smile_2.png"/> I am actually cutting down a lot on my afternoon & evening caffeine and woe does it make a difference to the quality of sleep I get. I…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/352504350http://www.danielbentes.com/post/352504350Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:12:47 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/l-xCm0Z113c/top_topic_trackers_updated.php">Top Topic Trackers (Updated List)</a>: <p><img src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/topic_feeds_tools.jpg"/>Last week we listed and categorized some of the <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_tools_tracking_topics.php">leading topic-tracking tools</a> on the Web. As usual we got a great response in the comments, with additional information about the apps listed and…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/352504460http://www.danielbentes.com/post/352504460Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:12:47 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/eofBsN1Mxr0/">Facebook Snatches User’s Vanity URL And Sells It To Harman International</a>: <p><img src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0000/4561/4561v1-max-250x250.png" alt=""/>This looks really, really bad. An avid Facebook user named Harman Bajwa says that his <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/09/you-have-three-days-to-pick-your-facebook-vanity-url/">Facebook vanity Url</a> – Facebook.com/Harman – was unceremoniously revoked yesterday for violating Facebook’s…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/349376337http://www.danielbentes.com/post/349376337Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:18:31 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/4Lzf_Xs7TzM/">GigaOM Video: Gowalla CEO Josh Williams on Foursquare, Yelp & The Future of Location</a>: <div> <br/><p><img title="joshwilliams" src="http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/joshwilliams.jpg?w=192&h=140" alt="" width="192" height="140"/>Last week Josh Williams, chief executive officer and co-founder of Alamofire, a Austin, TX.-based company behind the location-based mobile application Gowalla, stopped by our office to…</p> </div>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/347210046http://www.danielbentes.com/post/347210046Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:54:27 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/4sPkUQBxQr0/youve_got_fresh_milk_facebook_apps_can_now_e-mail.php">You've Got Fresh Milk! Facebook Apps Can Now Email You</a>: <p><img alt="thefacebook.jpg" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/thefacebook.jpg" width="150" height="66"/>Just in case you were thinking <a href="http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=mafia+wars&init=quick#/apps/application.php?id=10979261223&ref=search&sid=598755766.3987743584..1">Mafia Wars</a> or Farmville weren’t a big enough part of your daily life, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a> has announced that it will now offer email notifications from applications….</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/345011594http://www.danielbentes.com/post/345011594Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:02:51 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/UJnNessdYxs/">Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is Critical</a>: <p><img src="http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/michael-1.jpg"/><em>This is a guest post from <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-robertson">Michael Robertson,</a> a 12-year veteran of the digital music business. He is the founder and former CEO of digital music pioneer <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mp3-com-2">MP3.com.</a> He is currently the CEO of…</em></p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/343233258http://www.danielbentes.com/post/343233258Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:26:42 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/GsYuV4XndTU/">Digg Beyond Digg With New Chrome And Firefox Extensions</a>: <p><img title="Screen shot 2010-01-19 at 11.09.27 AM" src="http://cache0.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Screen-shot-2010-01-19-at-11.09.27-AM.png" alt="Screen shot 2010-01-19 at 11.09.27 AM" width="291" height="367"/>One common complaint about <a href="http://digg.com">Digg</a> is that you have to visit the site to actually digg anything. Well, unless you use the Digg toolbar, which caused <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/diggbar-keeps-all-digg-homepage-traffic-on-digg/">a bit</a> of <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/19/diggbar-commits-career-suicide-starts-redirecting-users-to-digg-homepage/">controversy</a> when it launched…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/343233261http://www.danielbentes.com/post/343233261Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:26:42 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/0EpXBJT9SOQ/facebook_privacy_explanation_debate.php">The Facebook Privacy Debate: What You Need to Know</a>: <p><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20100110-dske2yxejkt129w382dxygt5a8.jpg"/>Facebook changed the world by helping 350 million people publish their thoughts, feelings, comments, photos, videos and shared links much more easily than ever before. It’s the King of social…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/342607249http://www.danielbentes.com/post/342607249Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:46:22 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/WF1YA1Tqnco/">Record Your Life with Momento, a “Unique Approach to Diary Writing” [iPhone App]</a>: <p><a href="http://www.momentoapp.com/">Momento for iPhone</a> by the UK based Milton Keynes development outfit<img title="Momento for iPhone" src="http://thenextweb.com/apps/files/2010/01/Untitled-1.png" alt="Momento for iPhone" width="300" height="500"/><a href="http://www.d3i.com/">d3i</a> is a fantastic little app for keeping you’re thoughts, reminders and ideas to yourself on your own private journal…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/342607254http://www.danielbentes.com/post/342607254Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:46:22 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/InsideFacebook/~3/xcKO48QUrJU/">With New “Via” Feature, Pages and Apps Should Encourage Fans to Reshare Viral Content More</a>: <p>While the “Share” action item in Facebook’s feed stories has never gotten that much attention, Facebook just increased the incentive for Pages and Apps to encourage their users to “reshare” feed…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/342607265http://www.danielbentes.com/post/342607265Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:46:22 +0100<a href="http://www.iddictive.com/2010/01/19/reknit-sweaters-designed-by-someones-mom/">ReKnit Sweaters Designed by Someone’s Mom</a>: <div style="float:right;margin-left:10px"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iddictive.com%2F2010%2F01%2F19%2Freknit-sweaters-designed-by-someones-mom%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iddictive.com%2F2010%2F01%2F19%2Freknit-sweaters-designed-by-someones-mom%2F" height="61" width="51"/></a></div> <p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.iddictive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/reknit.jpg"><img style="border:1px solid black;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px" title="reknit" src="http://www.iddictive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/reknit.jpg" alt="" width="440" height="213"/></a></p> <p>Last year we featured <a href="http://www.iddictive.com/2009/02/25/granny-sourced-knitwear/">Granny-sourced knitwear</a> – this time it’s Mom’s turn.</p> <p>Each month Haik Avanian’s mom will take an old sweater of yours (and $30), unravel it, knit it back…</p>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/342607267http://www.danielbentes.com/post/342607267Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:46:22 +0100<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/sh7P8Jmp3AI/">5 Myths That Can Kill a Startup</a>: <div> <br/><p><a href="http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/istock_000006711564xsmall.jpg"><img src="http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/istock_000006711564xsmall.jpg?w=300" alt="" title="True, False Road Sign" width="300" height="199"/></a>Enroll in an academic program, make friends with some of the other really smart students, drop out of school with them to create a company, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=uTq5LqBP0IoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false">work 80 hours a week</a> and one day, <a href="http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-12-03/business/17326433_1_silicon-valley-high-tech-thinkers">ka-ching</a>!…</p> </div>http://www.danielbentes.com/post/339963504http://www.danielbentes.com/post/339963504Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:53:06 +0100