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The SEMPO New York Meetup!
Our next SEMPO New York Meetup is scheduled for July 30 at 6:30pm at the Microsoft offices.The July 28 RSVP deadline is approaching, and we have almost a hundred members confirmed with space for 130. Sign up here.
We’ll feature demos of great tech in the search space, [...]

Laurie Shulman mentioned to me the other day via Twitter that all the cool techies are in New York’s Silicon Alley. I happen to work at one of those cool Silicon Alley tech startups, so I couldn’t help but to reply to Laurie with the formation of the official “The Coolest Tech Media Companies Are [...]

Following is also my latest MediaPost Spin column… 
Machines Threaten Advertising Grunt Workers
March 21st, 2008 by Max Kalehoff
According to Garry Kasparov, the former world-champion chess player, the British mathematician Alan Turing envisioned the yet-to-be-invented computer playing chess and beating the human world champion. When computers first arrived at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in the 1950s, [...]

Following is also my latest column in Mediapost.
Stubborn Customers Shun The Greatest Product Innovations
March 14th, 2008 by Max Kalehoff
If you follow my column, blog or Twitter updates, you know that I recently canceled my bundled Internet-television-phone service with Cablevision. I replaced it with a similar new bundled service from Verizon called FIOS. It promises fiber-optic [...]

I’ve been a fan of Technorati for a long time. Having been an early exec at Nielsen BuzzMetrics (aka Nielsen Online), I was long envious of Technorati’s success as a currency of the blogosphere — both in calling market size (number of blogs indexed) and popularity (number of inbound links to any blog). Heck, [...]