In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Example What do I mean? Interestingly, they are not including Google Authentication . One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms.

An aspiring entrepreneur on Hacker News recently asked, “I want to start a startup, but have no ideas. Chance Barnett , said before he even builds a product, he buys some cheap ads on Google to see if there’s a market for it. Bring an existing idea to a different platform What should I do?” 8221;

One day, while jogging, he got the idea for Maponics. When Google opened up its mapping API it made Maponics’s Flash-based idea less appealing. - After Google came out with its product, Maponics shut down its Flash-based product. The company works with Google, Trulia, infoUSA, Yellow Book USA, CitySearch, and other big online The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers

8221;  Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad.  As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk.  So Google launched Google AdWord and AdSense based in part on technology it acquired when it bought an LA-based company called Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising” company

Then I check and manage our Google Adwords campaign and check our analytics/stats. Just found the title of my post. You've been blogging for a while, what are five good posts that I should check out? Flip flops required , How I got my mortgage company to lower my payments by $10k , Want more Twitter followers?, Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls) , Do your kids Google poo? Great posts. I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses.

And let's face facts, we normally are talking Google search. If you don't know the basics here, go look at Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide (PDF). It tells you all the basics and the importance of things like: Titles URLs Anchor Tags Site Navigation Content Quality Once you've skimmed this, you'll have a pretty good idea of all the things that you should do to get your pages in good shape. They only very briefly mention how you can effectively promote your I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them.

I haven’t even used Google Wave yet and I’m already bored of it. Google released 100,000 golden tickets into the wild this week, in the process enabling thousands of poor folks to generally make an ass of themselves begging for, spamming about and even selling the exclusive invites. can understand the fuss to a certain extent, after all it is Google, and real time is HOT HOT HOT. Not so much bored, I just know it’s not for me. Basically it’s a feeding frenzy of Apple-like proportions clogging up Twitter streams nationwide.

Unless I need to build a model or run pivot tables on large datasets in Excel, I make all my spreadsheets in google docs.  And anytime I’m collaborating on a document that doesn’t require heavy formatting, it’s google docs as well (it now has styles and an killer table of contents feature).  Yup, google docs. After almost 3 years at Momentum, I’m rounding the corner on my final week.  I’m headed back to school full-time this fall, so for the last several days, I’ve focused on winding down and transitioning myriad projects.

Unless I need to build a model or run pivot tables on large datasets in Excel, I make all my spreadsheets in google docs.  And anytime I’m collaborating on a document that doesn’t require heavy formatting, it’s google docs as well (it now has styles and an killer table of contents feature).  Yup, google docs. After almost 3 years at Momentum, I’m rounding the corner on my final week.  I’m headed back to school full-time this fall, so for the last several days, I’ve focused on winding down and transitioning myriad projects.

Unless I need to build a model or run pivot tables on large datasets in Excel, I make all my spreadsheets in google docs.  And anytime I’m collaborating on a document that doesn’t require heavy formatting, it’s google docs as well (it now has styles and an killer table of contents feature).  Yup, google docs. After almost 3 years at Momentum, I’m rounding the corner on my final week.  I’m headed back to school full-time this fall, so for the last several days, I’ve focused on winding down and transitioning myriad projects.