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Top 9 iPhone App Favs

Posted by Gavin Baker - August 27, 2010 - mobile
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I realized that I love other people’s recommendations – what iPhone apps they are using, where they are eating, what they are driving and what books they are reading.  Yet, I don’t share all of those things well with others.  So in a hat tip to those who’ve shared with me, here are my top [...]

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Read More apps, bible iphone, dictation nuance, ebay, facebook, Foursquare Solutions, Handhelds, im chat, insurance, iPhone, logos bible, meebo, mobile house buying, notifo, pandora, SimplyTweet, sleep cycle, Smartphones, state farm pocket agent, twitter, zillow

East Tennessee’s Best Poll – Vote Today

Posted by Gavin Baker - August 20, 2010 - knoxville, social media
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Happy to be in the running for East Tennessee’s Best Tweeter with a couple others from the team at Moxley Carmichael, including Scott Bird and Cynthia Moxley.  (Cynthia’s also nominated for best blogger for The Blue Streak!)  Thanks for the nomination and your votes. Please vote! Ends tonight Aug. 20! Vote for Best Tweeter Vote [...]

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Read More east tennessee, east tennessee's best, east tennessee's best blogger, east tennessee's best poll, east tennessee's best tweeter, knoxnews, knoxville, Knoxville Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, Organizations, Tennessee, United States

The Huffington Post is strikes gold, well chrome

Posted by Gavin Baker - August 19, 2010 - internet
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While doing research on my last post about Samasource I was taken an article by Leah on HuffPo.  What I found interesting was that they’ve built their own Google Chrome Extension for their publication (scroll to the bottom for what it actually looks like).  Super smart idea and one that I’ve become familar with in [...]

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Read More advertising, Browsers, Clients, Google Chrome, Google Chrome Extension, Google Chrome Extensions, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, USA Today, WWW

Samasource gives jobs, not aid to end global poverty

Posted by Gavin Baker - August 12, 2010 - non profit, startups, TEDTalks
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Samasource might be my favorite new non-profit.  Why?  Because they bring together the scrapiness of a startup with the social effects of a non-profit.  Like charity:water they operate under the model that their “return” is about bringing an American commodity to the global poor.  So what is Samasource?  It’s pure and (not) so simple social entrepreneurship, using [...]

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Read More business, Business Services, Leila Chirayath Janah, Non-profit organization, Samasource, Silicon Valley, social entreprenuership, TEDx, United States

Genesis startups and the bias against the other guys.

Posted by Gavin Baker - August 7, 2010 - startups
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Image via Wikipedia Recently I was eating a great breakfast cooked by my friend Alex and we were discussing startups and entrepreneurship in East Tennessee and we started discussing “original” startups vs buying existing businessnes or franchises and the bias in the start up community that exists against the later. Granted Alex and I both have experience [...]

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