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  1. The Art of Raising Seed: You’re Either Hot, Or You Make Your Own Heat techcrunch.com/2012/05/28/the… via @techcrunch 1:01 PM May 31st via Tweet Button
  2. BBC News - Intel-based smartphone unveiled by Orange for UK and France bbc.com/news/technolog… 12:40 PM May 31st via Tweet Button
  3. RT @geekstuff: Real progress on the EPIC IT Hub #chch The view from our office. #eqnz bit.ly/JzjzJA <--can't wait to move in! 7:17 PM May 29th via TweetDeck
  4. MySQL vs. NoSQL and NewSQL - survey results slideshare.net/mattaslett/mys… 11:02 PM May 27th via Tweet Button
  5. Man vs. Machine: Will Human Workers Become Obsolete? pbs.org/newshour/bb/bu… 11:22 PM May 26th via Tweet Button
  6. Interest in Cloud Computing Has Peaked - Forbes onforb.es/Jq9Rcf via @sharethis 3:55 PM May 26th via Tweet Button
  7. IPOing in NZ - notes from the NZX and Xero presentation wp.me/p2eky-101 via @lancewiggs 1:12 PM May 24th via Tweet Button
  8. SAP buys US cloud computing firm Ariba for $4.3bn bbc.in/LBvS9N 1:10 PM May 24th via Tweet Button
  9. Getting the compensation conversation right feld.com/wp/archives/20… 1:20 AM May 23rd via Tweet Button
  10. Totally RAD: Bioengineers create rewritable digital data storage in DNA: sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/… 1:12 AM May 23rd via Tweet Button
  11. European Physicists Smash Chinese Teleportation Record techre.vu/JkBsrM (via @TechReview) 1:50 AM May 22nd via Tweet Button
  12. Spotify launches in New Zealand and Australia today | Computerworld New Zealand computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/… via @CIO_NZ 12:19 AM May 22nd via Tweet Button
  13. Scoop: Google, Microsoft both targeting Amazon with new clouds gigaom.com/cloud/scoop-go… 12:17 AM May 22nd via Tweet Button
  14. China's Next Export: Venture Capital businessweek.com/articles/2012-… via @BW 11:58 PM May 21st via Tweet Button
  15. Half Zuckerberg, half formal: the pinstripe hoodie | The National Business Review shar.es/2PxZd <-- ROFL fantastic 12:06 AM May 17th via Tweet Button
  16. SGEntrepreneurs: How to mitigate risk when investing in early stage startups sgentrepreneurs.com/private-equity… 11:58 PM May 15th via Tweet Button
  17. Google's Project Glass prototypes can transfer still images, do little else engadget.com/2012/05/15/goo… via @engadget 6:36 PM May 15th via Tweet Button
  18. Just booked to attend the 2012 ICE Network Event – The Future of Business. shar.es/29vTF 6th July in Auckland - see you there... 1:48 AM May 14th via TweetDeck
  • Name Ben Reid
  • Location Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Web http://memia.com
  • Bio Principal at www.memia.com consulting - business and tech strategy for ISVs. Polymath generalist, singularitarian, futurist, optimist.
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