By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

From what I’ve noticed, the founder of a successful startup is usually stubborn as hell. He won’t listen to people who tell him that his idea sucks or when someone says that it is impossible.

The successful entrepreneur surrounds himself with people…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Mark Coatney did such a good job with Newsweek Tumblr, he is now leaving the magazine for the startup blogging website, Tumblr.

In Coatney’s Tumblr blog, he wrote:

One of the reasons I’ve long been interested in online journalism

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Stefanie spoke yesterday at the TWTRCON in New York. Stefanie is known in Twitter as @StefanieatDell. The company had a soft launch of a customer service account called @DellCares in May to answer questions and resolve issues.

“Dell’s…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I attended Internet Week’s Sources Go Direct panel to hear what Gawker’s Nick Denton, venture capitalist Fred Wilson, and Ground Report’s Rachel Sterne had to say about “Sources Go Direct.”

What exactly does Sources Go Direct mean, you  are…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Frustrated Facebook users have thrown a digital hissy fit over the latest brouhaha brewing over privacy. Tens of thousands of people pledged to Quit Facebook on Monday, but many got cold feet (or forgot to follow through).

But Facebook isn’t…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

Fast Company’s Infographic of the day is The 140 Most Influential People on Twitter. Clearly this diagram is a play on the 140 characters on Twitter. And of course the founders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone are at its…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson

Snac is a startup that wants you to digest information in snack sized amounts.

Want access to the web in 2 seconds to check sports scores, stock, or the latest tweets, but only have an old school phone?

Well Snac might be able to…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Twitter just bought the two-person startup, Cloudhopping, to help expand their reach to SMS users around the world. The Seattle based company will help Twitter keep up with the mobile version of the service.

According to the company’s blog:

To help

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I wrote about how all your tweets will be archived by The Library of Congress. I wrote that piece from the perspective of a Twitter user. But in reality, there are so many people who still think Twitter is stupid…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably already seen this scroll down your Twitter feed: The Library of Congress will be saving your tweets. The library of tweets will be massive. Twitter now has 106 million users, who collectively send out about 55…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

On March 18th, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York put a group of comedians against random Chatroulette players in front of a live studio audience. One man who thought he was “exposing” himself to a girl was in for a…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I’m rising early to be a guest on Danny Boome’s new show! I’ll be talking about all things DNA: ancestry, diet, and dating. Stay tuned!

Rise and shine with Danny Boome’s new live interactive web based morning show!  At 8:00am on Thursday, March

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I use the location-based service Foursquare, but most of my friends don’t — which kind of defeats the purpose. I don’t check in that often. Right now, I only know a handful of social media elite who are regulars.

But Foursquare is quite…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I’ve never been to South By Southwest Interactive conference, but everyone who has been says it is ammmaaaazing.

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Happy, snowy Friday. Do you feel like having some self help ideas for your business? Here are some things that happened this week.

10 entrepreneurs who created companies valued at $50 million talk about their biggest mistake.

Scientists turn body…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The “Embargoes” video is hilarious! It might be too insider baseball for anyone who doesn’t blog about tech start-up companies. Seriously, the embargo thing situation happened to me last week.

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The State Department sent eBay CEO John Donahoe, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and Ashton Kutcher, among others as tech delegates to a Russian Tech Conference.

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

That’s right. She picked it up over the weekend from QVC!

Vizio got a soft launch of their new WiFi Internet App TV’s out the door and with QVC. Of all the retailers that I would have expected them to court, it…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Who are they?

They are the ones that are lurking, listening in that don’t have a vested interest in being a publisher. They have no concern over writing the missives that get re-tweeted and linked to.

The most important Twitter users are…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Foursquare is making deals. The location-based mobile app just partnered with Zagat, the restaurant guide. The New York Times partnered with Foursquare for the Olympic games. And got Lucky magazine in on the deal, just in time for…