The May Report: 8/30/2010: Drink Deck’s launch party reviewed by Melanie Adcock along with some new TMR YouTube videos; John Aiello looks good on TV; Are Groupon users primarily variety seekers and bargain hunters — not loyal –and not a good fit for lon

The May Report: 8/26/2010: SXSW panel votes due Friday the 27th; SmartBet Poker September 16th and more….

The May Report: 8/26/2010: Juno Wallet creates #1 mobile app for gift cards; Brad Flora funded by Knight Foundation and to start new firm; Layton Olson and Tarkus Murphy on broadband; Andrew Mason is not a face man, he’s a fridge man, and more…..

The May Report: 8/20/2010: Just in: Joshua Karp re-launches The Printed Blog: Groupon grosses $11MM selling $50 coupons at The Gap for $25 on a national basis, selling over 440k groupons, plus they crashed the server at The Gap — a national deal and thei

The May Report: 8/20/2010: Christopher Steiner of Forbes wrote August’s cover story on Groupon and Andrew Mason — in case you missed it — which I did; the projection is that they are on track to be the fastest growing internet — or just any — firm eve

The May Report: 8/17/2010: Overflow crowd of 300 attend Groupon’s Andrew Mason’s interview at SocDevCamp Chicago 2010 — the entire event was sold out — and yours truly was not allowed in along with about 40 others; Could Groupon be Chicago’s Google?; eB

The May Report: 8/13/2010: While most of Chicago will be on the beach enjoying the air and water show, our tenacious and dedicated tech and social media community will be hard at work at Hackathon, SocDevCamp and the Fiji Urban Water Hunt; It appears that

The May Report: 8/13/2010: It is Friday the 13th after all so let’s have some amusement: Another innovative use of the internet which reminds me of the time I sent out to everyone the conference call number for lay off announcements at Mercantec, but this

The May Report: 8/6/2010: A jewel in the crown I had not heard about until tonight — yet another resource for start-up firms no one seems to know about; Jim Orrico on Assistive Medical; The Music Producer2.0 (TMP) gets enthusiastic support at BNC — and

The May Report: 8/5/2010: Eric Wasowicz’s deal of the day UWantSavings.com bites the dust; Keywell’s name conspicuously absent in discussion of Groupon; Jim Orrico appears to have gotten funding, possibly a cash for CEO job deal; The Brad/Katie baby; Is J