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Silicon Alley

The Rise of Silicon Alley

By Hiroki On March 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This post originally appeared on The Next Great Generation.

For many years Silicon Valley, a technology mecca in California, has been synonymous with innovation and entrepreneurship. Tech giants like Apple, Google, Facebook, and others have laid their roots in the Valley, and for decades there was no better place [...]

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Facebook IPO

The Facebook IPO (And What We Now Know)

By Hiroki On February 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This article was originally posted on The Next Great Generation.

Ah, Facebook. For our generation, it’s hard to imagine life without it and hard to remember a time when it didn’t exist. For the generation after us, that will become even increasingly difficult.

Last night, Facebook filed [...]

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SocialRent

Students Use Social Media to Streamline Apartment Hunting

By Hiroki On January 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This article originally appeared on The Next Great Generation. 

Back in December, James Zar, a 20-year-old Boston University student, was on the hunt for his next apartment. To his annoyance, the hours spent sorting through posts on Boston’s Craigslist and cold-calling real estate agents seemed like a waste [...]

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SOPA

A Post-SOPA Internet

By Hiroki On January 16, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This article originally appeared in The Next Great Generation. 

Last month we wrote a breakdown of the Stop Online Piracy Act better known as SOPA. It does a great job of covering the ins and outs of the bill and I’m assuming at this point you’ve heard something about SOPA or [...]

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New-New Twitter

A New Design and a New Era with New-New Twitter

By Hiroki On January 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This article originally appeared in The Next Great Generation.

Twitter is having a good month. By now you have probably been included in the roll-out of the new Twitter design dubbed humorously by many as “new-new Twitter” in reference to the last site overhaul [...]

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Emerson Social MEdia

Colleges Keep Student Engagement Casual With Tumblr

By Hiroki On December 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This article originally appeared on The Next Great Generation. 

Blogs are everywhere today; at the start of 2011, more than 152 million blogs existed on the Internet. From corporations to journalists, blogs are being authored by a diverse audience. A while back [...]

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Facebook

Is Boston the New Silicon Valley? My Discussion with Boston Startups

By Hiroki On December 9, 2011 · 2 Comments

This article originally appeared on The Next Great Generation. 

Earlier this month, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a surprising statement at a Stanford University forum.

“If I were starting now,’’ he said, “I would do it very differently, but [...]

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Moo Business Cards

5 Gift Ideas for Freelancers

By Hiroki On November 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This article originally appeared on The Next Great Generation.

With the job economy between a rock and a hard place and the rise of the Internet, Gen Y IS the freelance generation. There are many liberties that come with freelancing full-time: being your own [...]

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Lapse It App

3 New Apps to Download Right Now

By Hiroki On November 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Own a smartphone? Here are three of the hottest new apps on the marketplace.

Lapse It (Android)

Lapse It is an insanely fun app that lets you create time-lapse videos from your phone. Want to make a time-lapse of the next meteor shower or traffic in [...]

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Klout Score Card

The Problem(s) With Klout

By Hiroki On November 9, 2011 · 2 Comments

This article originally appeared on The Next Great Generation.

If you’re a Klout user, you, like many of us, were furious a week ago as you stood by helplessly while your precious Klout Score pummeled in rank.

Such hard-earned likes and mentions! The groveling it took to get [...]

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