The speed dating arena is starting to heat up. Last week we looked at SpeedDating.com, and a few readers gave it a spin. WooMe, founder/CEO Stephen Stokols, a 2004 MBA grad of Berkeley, in the video below, is giving his pitch at the TechCrunch40 2007 Conference. Bambi @ Vator.tv subsequently posted a 49 second [...]

Linda Zimmer reports In an episode to air this coming Wednesday, October 24, 2007 that CSI: NY detective Mac Taylor enters Second Life (SL) to chase an avatar suspect. In the episode the virtual world is not renamed to protect its identity. The story line seeks to meld the virtual and the real, with a RL (Real Life) [...]

 
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THIS APPEARED ON CRAIG’S LIST (It really really did!)
What am I doing wrong? Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not from New York. I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a [...]

My wife informs me that Randy will be on Oprah at 4 PM Monday, 10/22/07, along with other people who are dying. You may review my blog entry about The Last Lecture here: Based on the Last Lecture, I strongly recommend readers of this blog tune in to Oprah Monday. I’ll try to make the [...]

The following is from Knowledge@Wharton: “Radiohead, the British rock band, sent shock waves through the music  industry recently when it announced that it would release its latest album online, without a record label, and let fans pay whatever they wanted to for it — including nothing at all. For Radiohead, this means that the group [...]

This past weekend, there was a StartUpNation-hosted event at Purdue University - Krannert to be more exact. I’ll let their new offering speak for itself. Check out www.scrolltalk.com. Remember, about 22 Purdue students (plus the organizational body; here is the whois for scrolltalk.com) conceived of, coded, and brought this site to life in a [...]

Silicon Valley’s math is getting fuzzy again.

Internet companies with funny names, little revenue and few customers are commanding high prices. And investors, having seemingly forgotten the pain of the first dot-com bust, are displaying symptoms of the disorder known as irrational exuberance. …Internet start-ups are drawing investment based on their ability to build an audience, [...]

Week of October 15 - 21, 2007
A new look at the economic impact of immigrants in Great Britain contains some useful figures on their spending, employment, and self-employment. The study, from the Institute for Public Policy Research, presents data on twenty-five different ethnic groups who make large portions of Britain’s immigrant population. Overall, about 9.7% [...]

 On October 4th, 2007, SpeedDate.com opened to the public.  The event started at 8PM and was expected  to last about an hour. People continued to speed date until past 2am. Over 1100 3-minute dates took place and 230 people participated, according to the site’s blog. 
Crunchbase.com suggests SpeedDate.com is one of a slew of new online, [...]