http://www.submitteronline.com/blog Submitter for bloggers. Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:30:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/nexus-one-the-google-phone-captured-in-the-wild-picture.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/nexus-one-the-google-phone-captured-in-the-wild-picture.html#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:30:02 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/nexus-one-the-google-phone-captured-in-the-wild-picture.html Apparently, Googler's aren't supposed to be tweeting the details of the Google Phone, but they have no problem tweeting about how awesome it is. And they also apparently have no problem showing it off. And not surprisingly, pictures of the device are starting to hit the web. Without further ado, this is it. Cory O'Brien, a San Francisco-based blogger, got his hands on one tonight and tweeted out that picture. He also notes that, "Google Phone = iPhone + a little extra screen and a scroll wheel. Great touch screen, and Android."]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/nexus-one-the-google-phone-captured-in-the-wild-picture.html/feed 0 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/best-man-rigs-newlyweds%e2%80%99-bed-to-tweet-during-sex-not-kidding.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/best-man-rigs-newlyweds%e2%80%99-bed-to-tweet-during-sex-not-kidding.html#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:30:03 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/best-man-rigs-newlyweds%e2%80%99-bed-to-tweet-during-sex-not-kidding.html When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend's wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding though, that's another story. This man, who is choosing to stay anonymous, has set up this Twitter account for the sole purpose of automatically tweeting when the newlyweds are having sex. I'm not kidding. Read the entire tweet stream from the bottom up if you want the full story. But basically, this guy was watching his friend's house while they went on their honeymoon and he placed a device under their mattress. This device, which is basically the one found here, is a pressure-sensitive pad that tweets out when sexual activity starts, when it ends, the force of the "action," and a "frenzy" rating.]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/best-man-rigs-newlyweds%e2%80%99-bed-to-tweet-during-sex-not-kidding.html/feed 0 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/venture-capitalists-ron-conway-and-sean-parker-battle-for-charity.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/venture-capitalists-ron-conway-and-sean-parker-battle-for-charity.html#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:30:02 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/venture-capitalists-ron-conway-and-sean-parker-battle-for-charity.html Sean Parker (Founders Fund, Facebook, Plaxo, Napster) and angel investor Ron Conway are doing a little smack talking over who'll raise the most money for charity. Conway is raising for the UCSF Foundation, and Parker is fighting Malaria through Malaria No More. So far Parker is in the lead, with more than $15,000 raised (he's tying it to his 30th birthday party tonight). Conway, who started later, has nearly $7,500. They're both using Causes on Facebook, one of Parker's companies, to raise the money. We're not picking sides, and both are very worthy causes. Donate early and often. And consider asking friends to donate instead of giving holiday gifts.]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/venture-capitalists-ron-conway-and-sean-parker-battle-for-charity.html/feed 0 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/tedxsv-reid-hoffman-on-philanthropic-movements-on-the-web.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/tedxsv-reid-hoffman-on-philanthropic-movements-on-the-web.html#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:30:02 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/tedxsv-reid-hoffman-on-philanthropic-movements-on-the-web.html We're at TEDxSV, a Silicon Valley outpost of TED's conferences on innovation, which is taking place today at Stanford University. First up is LinkedIn founder and angel investor Reid Hoffman, who is addressing the concept of iMovements on the web. I'll be live-blogging his remarks. Hoffman says that one of his ambitions is to be a public intellectual, to be able to influence millions of people with innovations and change. Hoffman thinks that the internet, which is scalable and low-cost, is the optimal platform for cause-based organizations. The web is more about people than technology, Hoffman asserts.]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/tedxsv-reid-hoffman-on-philanthropic-movements-on-the-web.html/feed 0 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/wordpress-makes-blogging-on-the-fly-easier-integrates-with-twitter-api.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/wordpress-makes-blogging-on-the-fly-easier-integrates-with-twitter-api.html#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/wordpress-makes-blogging-on-the-fly-easier-integrates-with-twitter-api.html This morning, a blogging platform and a microblogging platform have become more symbiotic. WordPress has enabled posting and reading the blogs the platform powers via the Twitter API. This means any Twitter app that supports a custom API URL can be used to either post updates to your WordPress.com blog, or to read updates from blogs you've subscribed to. Tweetie 2, an iPhone and desktop Twitter client, will be one of the first third party apps to implement this.]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/wordpress-makes-blogging-on-the-fly-easier-integrates-with-twitter-api.html/feed 0 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-medium-is-no-longer-the-message-you-are.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-medium-is-no-longer-the-message-you-are.html#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:00:05 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-medium-is-no-longer-the-message-you-are.html We are witnessing a profound change in the media and advertising industries due to the emergence of social media.  Companies that did not exist ten years ago, like Facebook and Twitter, have captured significant share of the attention economy from traditional publishers.  Underscoring this trend is the fact that at the same time that Businessweek was selling for less than $5 million (plus assumption of debts) to Bloomberg, Foursquare’s pretty cousin Gowalla drove up Sand Hill road and collected $8.4 million for a minority stake. Amidst this disruption, media companies are chasing after “their” audience in order to continue to broker the attention of that audience to marketers.  But just at the moment that media has mastered the art of blogging, search engine optimization and CPM yield management, they are now faced with a new set of consumer behaviors that elude their programming faculties: mobile devices, location-based services and the social graph. Driving this change in consumer behavior is the emergence of social media as a means of content production. Editor's note:  This guest post is written by Seth Goldstein (@seth),  the Co-Founder of socialmedia.com, which is building the first ad server based on people not pages. Its platform provides authoring, serving and reporting across different types of social media. All of its ads are real messages from real people. Seth is also the Co-Chairman of the IAB's Social Media Committee. ]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-medium-is-no-longer-the-message-you-are.html/feed 0 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-google-phone-unlocked-confirmed-and-more-details.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-google-phone-unlocked-confirmed-and-more-details.html#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:00:03 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-google-phone-unlocked-confirmed-and-more-details.html Last night, we started seeing some Tweets from Google employees and others about a new Android-powered Google phone that was apparently handed out at an "all hands" meeting. Now Google is confirming that this indeed "dogfood" testing a new Android device with employees around the world. But this isn't just another Android phone. Very trustworthy sources who have seen the phone say that it is the Google Phone we first wrote about last month (despite the uninformed saying we were dreaming). It will be branded Google and sold by Google as an unlocked phone, which could change everything. The phone itself is being built by HTC, with a lot of input from Google.]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-google-phone-unlocked-confirmed-and-more-details.html/feed 0 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/it%e2%80%99s-all-about-selling-for-survival.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/it%e2%80%99s-all-about-selling-for-survival.html#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:30:06 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/it%e2%80%99s-all-about-selling-for-survival.html The one skill which entrepreneurs need is something they don’t teach in business school—selling.  Yes, I know that “selling” conjures up negative images of used-car salesmen peddling clunkers. But the ability to persuade people to believe in you is a necessity. That's because sales is not just about selling things for money. Selling is about life. Convincing the perfect soulmate to go out on a date is a sales job. Enticing your children to eat their vegetables is a sales job. Negotiating a raise with your boss is a sales job. And, yes, selling your company to Google is definitely a sales job. A sales job in that you are listening to others, finding out what they want or need, and giving it to them in a form that they appreciate. And guess who the best salespeople in tech companies are? Your developers. Let me explain why I believe this.]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/it%e2%80%99s-all-about-selling-for-survival.html/feed 0 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-google-phone-this-changes-everything-mostly.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-google-phone-this-changes-everything-mostly.html#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:30:05 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-google-phone-this-changes-everything-mostly.html We don't have much information on the Google Phone just yet. In fact, it sounds more like a party favor than anything else. However, if and when Google starts selling this thing, prepare for some of the strangest - and coolest - times in mobile we've ever experienced. What do we know? It's an HTC phone - probably the Passion, a distant cousin to the beautiful HD2 - with large touchscreen. It's GSM unlocked and everyone at Google has one so whatever the super secret specs are, they won't stay super secret for long. But what if Google starts to sell this thing? This is "a big deal" on the level of Neo learning Kung Fu in The Matrix. This means Google is making hardware.]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/the-google-phone-this-changes-everything-mostly.html/feed 0 http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/startup-hunting-at-the-end-of-the-earth.html http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/startup-hunting-at-the-end-of-the-earth.html#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:00:02 +0000 admin http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/startup-hunting-at-the-end-of-the-earth.html I’m sitting in Buenos Aires now, but last week I was in Puyuehue. Yeah, I had no clue where that was either when I got talked into embarking on a 20-something-hour day of travel to get there. If you look at a map of South America and trace your finger to the very bottom of Chile, that’s roughly where I was. I sighed getting on the plane just four days after I got home from India. Having already traveled to Rwanda, Israel, China and India this year in search of the world’s best entrepreneurs, the journey was now quite literally taking me to the end of the earth.]]> http://www.submitteronline.com/blog/2009/12/startup-hunting-at-the-end-of-the-earth.html/feed 0