http://blog.buttonall.com The Internet's Universal Remote Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:50:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en University of Virginia Venture Summit Lecture Notes: Venture Panel Discussion “Windows on the Future” March 25, 2010 A discussion of opportunities in emerging technology areas from elite venture capitalists Stephan Dolezalek- VantagePoint Venture Partners, moderator Jack Biddle-Novak Biddle Venture Partners Frank Levinson-Small World Group and Founder/Director of Finisar, Inc. Sandy ... http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=204 First things first. Here are links to the two primary charities coordinating the disaster relief in Haiti: Catholic Relief Services American Red Cross | Send a $10 donation by texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999 For obvious reasons, this search channel was hastily created.  The Haiti channel was designed to search vetted news and local ... http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=194 ButtonALL is an extremely powerful shopping sales research tool.  No joke: (reprints from last year) Community and Discovery Shopping Search Engines Black Friday Deals Search Engine Shoes Search Engine http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=189 Had a pleasant day trip to DC on Saturday for the Third Annual BarCamp DC (Schedule | Twitter | #barcampdc). Location: MLK Library. Ah, in the heart of DC. A wonderful diversity of townies, international tourists, homeless, and, of course, geeks. My kind of town.  I sat in on ... http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=184 ButtonALL was recently featured in Eleftherotypia...if your Greek is rusty that would be the Athens Free Press, one the largest newspapers in the country. I honestly haven't been this excited about a press clipping since we made Indian MTV. Tried Babelfishing our excerpt (right under the section that highlighted the ... http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=178 Ah yes, Charlottesville. The mighty big small town. Always on some kind of Top 10 Livable Cities list. Home of The University (our chief engineer/founder is a proud graduate). Cultural/Media per-capita capital of the world (How does a town of 45,000 sustain two high quality alt-weeklies?). Home ... http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=174 East of Richmond (ButtonALL's hometown), there lies a tunnel and some traffic. Before and beyond that tunnel is the "757." The birthplace of our country began in the Hampton Roads section of Virginia. For the Hampton Roads search channel, we chose the two main newspapers servicing that ... http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=169 The latest city search engine comes to us from Western Pennsylvannia.  The five search engines chosen were as follows: Tribune-Review WPXI KDKA Pittsburgh Craigslist Pittsburgh ALL* *Unfortunately, we could not work with the strings for the Post-Gazette or City Paper to create individual buttons; however, the "PITT ALL" search engine indexes both of these periodicals as ... http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=164 The growth of Twitter is documented, some kind of amazing. My goodness, it even made the cover of Time Magazine (of course, who reads print magazines anymore when you can craft a well-designed Twitter feed?). Growing concurrently at an equally hyper rate are the various Twitter Apps.  It has gotten so ... http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=156 The Tampa Bay Local Search Engine Channel has been created. To add the Tampa/St Pete channel to your ButtonALL you can go to the customization screen and drop down on Cities:: Tampa Bay. Remember, in the customization screen, you can re-arrange, add, and delete your search engine preferences.  The inaugural ... http://blog.buttonall.com/?p=148