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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

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I happened to connect with Don, read his research papers, and in about 2007, learned about Twitter and started using it. Right after that, I established connections with lots of artists--who were customer and friends--and started publishing books for them. The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Stage two: They say the solution was obvious all along." -- Robert Fischell, Inventor (Holder of 200 medical device patents) It is easy to come up with ideas. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit Where's Jack Bauer?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls

Frank Addante

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: Well, my philosophy is that if you keep it from your competition, youre also keeping it from potential users or customers. In trying to hide it from the 5-10 would-be competitors youre also hiding it from thousands or millions of users and customers. particularly with international patent laws.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 3.0: Internet advertising is good. No, it’s bad. Oh wait… it IS good!

Frank Addante

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: – Premium Online Advertising Company Age: 21 - 25 Time Period: 1997 - 2001 My Role: Chief Technology Officer, Technology Founder and Chairman, Advisory Board High Point: $500 million market cap; 3,000+ customers; 8 billion transactions per month; 65% Internet reach Warning, this will be a long posting.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

. ► March (1) Office 2.0: We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. StrongMail’s software ensures reliable and timely delivery of their critical customer communications.

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