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Social Media Releasing the World Economic Forum Eqentia Channel

Today, we published a social media release using the Pitch Engine platform. It was a snap to use. The result is a “social media release page” here that is hosted on Pitch Engine. The release was automatically added to Pitch Engine’s RSS feed, appeared in a Google search within 8 mins, and was subsequently picked-up [...]

Feeding vs. Reading: An RSS Saga

The future of RSS is bright despite Twitter’s chipping away at the RSS readers user base.

Twitter the Utility Company & the Public Twitter vs. Private Twitter

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I was shocked to read that Twitter’s architecture is still centralized, after reading TC’s post where they advocate that it should be. I agree that it’s time for Twitter to take a page from Google’s massively decentralized architecture and to start showing us they can scale ad nauseam, just like Google. [...]

The Dust Has Cleared on the Future of RSS

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As an RSS and news junkie, I’ve been on cloud nine in the past 48 hours because of the excitement surrounding Dave Winer’s rssCloud implementation. In an email this morning, Fred Wilson asked me to explain why this was so special and important. And Dave Winer who has already gone to great length [...]

Launching Eqentia!

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Today, we have publicly launched (Beta). Although the Eqentia service has been available for a few months as we worked with early customers, we weren’t as public as we wanted to be. Now we are.
Richard MacManus has written a launch post about Eqentia in ReadWriteWeb where we are compared to [...]

The Top 21 Socially and Deal Networked VC’s

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Following the technology Venture Capital space, what VC’s say and how their firms rank is fascinating, especially for me: I’m starting the process for an early stage round of finance.
Recently, two respectable rankings caught my attention. First Larry Cheng at Fidelity Ventures published the Global VC Blog Directory, as ranked by the number [...]

Twitter as an Innovation Engine

Twitter is ushering an unprecedented wave of innovation, not seen since the early days of the Internet.

Thumbs-up to PWC’s Semantic Web Report

An excellent report on the Semantic Web was released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers as part of their Spring 2009 Technology Forecast. I made brief comments on the ReadWriteWeb post that summarizes it.
For Eqentia, this bodes well, as I picked-up on 2 key trends from the report that are squarely validating our approach to the market. First, [...]

First Toronto Semantic Web Meetup

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About two months ago, I started a Toronto Semantic Web Meetup group, and today we have 43 members. Our first meeting will focus on networking and a bit of “Semantics 101”, presented by Greg Boutin, Founding Partner of Growthroute Ventures. Greg blogs at Semantics Incorporated and is a regular Member of the monthly [...]

A New Blog Is Born

A new blog, a new day. After a blog hiatus of 3 years, I’m back on the blogging scene, now as a founder of Eqentia. What will I blog about? Here are some directions and intent for this blog:
To keep Eqentia’s customers and partners informed about our development and evolution

To communicate my vision for Eqentia, [...]