links for 2005-10-04

Marianne Hudson of the Kauffman Foundation’s Entreworld asks: What books or articles have been most helpful to you in your entrepreneurial growth venture? Certainly an interesting question.  First, I second her recommendation of Guy Kawasaki’s The Art of the Start, which I have suggested to a number of budding entrepreneurs lately.  But I would also…

Scoble points to some new, niche versions of Memeorandum that have been created.  Specifically, he spoke with Gabe Rivera, creator of Memeorandum, who told him about tech.Memeorandum and the latest version of the original which is focused on current events and politics. It’s all computer driven to come up with stories — it uses links…

Today, I am becoming Chief Digital Officer of DCI Group, a Washington, DC public affairs firm.

This space has been fairly quiet of late, as I have been deeply involved in growing and transitioning a number of businesses, ventures, and projects. I thought I’d take a moment to update all of you loyal readers about what I’m up to and in a subsequent post I will share what you can expect…

From Search Engine Watch reports on the emerging market for B2B search and features commentary by some current players in that sector. One of the top trends highlighted at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose was the growing importance of vertical search, and one of the key sessions in the vertical track was…

TechCrunch reports on an interesting approach by Seth Godin to marketing his new book: As I mentioned in a recent weekly summary (see no. 6), Seth’s new book, The Big Moo, is coming out and he’s eating his own dogfood in promoting it. Seth has started selling batches of 50 galley copies to people if…