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Mark Cuban: “I hate the idea but it still could work.” How do you vet investment advisors and protect from fraud?
Roelef: reminds me of Cake financial. You take advantage of sloth and greed: people want …

Best session of TechCrunch 50 so far… tons of innovation in the mobile space and it would have made sense to expand this ‘vertical’ with more companies.
MyTopia: Helping the mobile web play together. They are …

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Mark Cuban: “I hate the idea but it still could work.” How do you vet investment advisors and protect from fraud?
Roelef: reminds me of Cake financial. You take advantage of sloth and greed: people want …

Tingz: cross platform widget system. Nice UI. I cannot get over the name Tingz – he keeps saying “you can share your Tingz with friends.” Quite confusing.
Don Dodge: getting adoption will be very difficult …

CopyBox – dynamic ads created with APIs / intelligence. They aren’t focused on small business – they are instead focused on ad agencies. *If they could focus on small business and make it consumer fronting*… …

FairSoftware – revenue sharing / structuring for small companies
Yammer – think Enterprise Twitter. Very slick UI. Reminds me of a slicker Trac / Collab. I love it. Very simple presentation but the product makes a …

Dotspots – a lot like BlogRovr (which I love)
Angstro – ‘news about your network’… could use some UI but very useful assuming your friends are in the news. Not sure market size is here. The …

I’m at TechCrunch 50 and there has been no wifi thus far… causing small riots in some cases.
While everyone searches for wifi signals, Yammer.com created their own closed network purely to promote themselves. Not sure …

I’ll be at TechCrunch 50 tomorrow – and am excited to see 52 companies publicly launch.
If you are around, please drop me a note (rspoon at gmail dot com)
Here is the final pre-event note from …

I’ve analyzed Techeme’s Leaderboard several times before (headlines vs. discussions, ‘presence’ vs. pageviews, etc) and thought it would be worthwhile to understand movement within the leaderboard.
I compared Techmeme’s Leaderboard on May 14 vs. today’s current …

Twitter is already struggling to stay afloat as the tech world buzzes about Apples WWDC 2008… and Steve Jobs hasn’t even taken the stage yet. Perhaps Twitter shouldn’t have made their “we’re ready” announcement yesterday …

One of the appeals of Techmeme is it’s transparent, always updated leaderboard. Techmeme ranks it’s top 100 contributors by the number of headlines each blog sends to the homepage. The ratio of overall headlines to …