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I Am Adam Smith

Adam Smith, CEO of new online travel startup TripInvite.com, writes about online travel, venture capital, and startups.

 

New Energy Drink Launched

My newest project is PornStarr Energy Drink - with Afro-disiacs. My partner and I have created the formula, design, and marketing plan. We had our first 3 parties in October, which went over really well. Have the next 160 cases coming in tomorrow. There'll be plenty more parties in Honolulu over the next two months, and some in Vegas and LA early next year.Let me know if you'd like to try it out.
  • Last Modified: 2008-11-10 03:21:07

Funny Video, this just might go viral

Just got sent this one... don't really know the scoop, but it definitely provided two solid minutes of me laughing my butt off. Enjoy (p.s. phase2.com is where I work).
  • Last Modified: 2008-10-16 14:51:04

TravelMob.com Launches!!

I'm very happy to announce that we launched TravelMob.com today! While we've had our bumps in the road, I think we launched an outstanding service.  I know that I'm using it to plan a ski trip to Utah this winter ;) Gotten some great press already, and a killer review by web guru Allen Stern. Please checkout the site, and let me know what you think: adam@travelmob.com . I'll be writing about what's happening with the company from a personal point of view on this blog and official company news and ideas for really fun group trips on the
  • Last Modified: 2008-08-20 23:31:26

TechCrunch article on Social Travel sites

Techcrunch has an article up from last week about social travel sites.  Definitely some interesting things going on in this space right now.
  • Last Modified: 2008-04-23 17:19:24

Fresh CPM Ad data

I love when blogs publish hard numbers... on anything really. New data from PubMatic on cost per thousand (CPM) rates. Here's the data via TechCrunchOnline ad-optimizing service PubMatic is now publishing an AdPrice Index with the average rates collected for remnant ads by 3,000 Web publishers. These are the ads that sites place from the big ad networks when they cannot sell the inventory themselves at normally higher rates. Small sites (those with less than one million page views per month) command nearly three times as much per ad as large si
  • Last Modified: 2008-04-08 16:07:58

LinkedIn Answers Rocks!

I've been researching hosting companies for TripInvite the past week. Its very confusing with the wide variety of options, and also hard to compare apples to apples because they all present their offerings differently. How much RAM do I need, which brand/model of server should I use? Who's got the most up-time, who's customer service is better, do I need a dedicated or a virtual server? How mature are the new grid-based offerings such as Mosso.... Luckily, I've got a profile on LinkedIn, and took advantage of their Q & A feature. I w
  • Last Modified: 2008-03-20 21:26:04

SaaS Summit 2008

I'll be attending SaaS Summit 2008 this week in San Fran. Lots of interesting speakers talking about trends in Software as a Service and Web 2.0. Let me know (contact info) if you'll be attending the conference or are in the area and would like to get together.
  • Last Modified: 2008-02-24 15:25:35

RackSpace launches Cloud Computing: Mosso

As far as I can tell, cloud computing is a cheaper more efficient way of serving web pages. From TechCrunch:Today, hosting provider Rackspace is offering a new cloud computing service through its subsidiary Mosso. (Disclosure: Rackspace is a TechCrunch advertiser). The service competes with Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), although it doesn’t require any load balancing or other administration. It also competes with Joyent and Media Temple’s Grid Service. Pricing starts at $100 a month for: —50 GB of storage—500 GB of bandwidth
  • Last Modified: 2008-02-21 19:28:13

PageOnce

Pageonce is a personal content aggregation service. Keeps all your RSS feeds, bank accounts, travel info, email all together in one spot. I like the concept, and the web design looks slick. Might be a partnership opportunity for TripInvite in the future.
  • Last Modified: 2008-02-14 19:42:43

Facebook App Networks

According to Techcrunch, there are now 16,000 apps on Facebook, and its hard to get noticed unless your a high profile app developer, or associated with them. Some of these such as Slide  are charging develoeprs $.50 an install. But now we are beginning to see networks starting to form across specific application genres. In the social gaming category alone, a battle is brewing between the Social Gaming Network (SGN) and Zynga. Tomorrow, both will launch separate developer platforms for other gaming applications. The appeal to smaller soc
  • Last Modified: 2008-02-14 19:17:32


 


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