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Graphic Provided by Ampush 2013 Cyber Monday will be big. Our economy is doing a bit better, the Black Friday crowds a deterrent, and a bigger mobile adoption. Our friends at Ampush has released an infographic(below) showing the Cyber Monday momentum. Also, Forbes mentioned recently that " more people will visit Cyber Monday online than visit Brick and Mortars on Black Friday ." Attention Brick and Mortars: Do you think you need an on-line presence now? Still, in terms of revenue, Black Friday still is the king and online security concerns keep some e-shoppers at bay. In the Forbes article above, they outline some safeguards for Cyber Monday shopping and Zippycart has a great article for e-tailers on security. Check out the Cyber Monday stats below.

This week’s Nerd Stalker Show Picks: DNA Testing Startup 23andMe Hits A Snag As FDA Shuts Down Sales Of Home Testing Kit | TechCrunch http://tcrn.ch/1c9rWYx Jury grants photographer $1.2M over Getty and AFP’s use of Twitter pics bit.ly/1aPMtQw via @GigaOMTech Google admits that Youtube/Google Plus integration increased ASCII porn, spam and trolling - Boing Boing http://bit.ly/1aZJ5mj Rings Turn Sign Language Into Spoken Word To Help The Deaf Communicate bit.ly/I4uE6g via @PSFK Woof to Wash: Bark-activated washing machine lets service dogs do the dirty work http://bit.ly/1aZKOIt Restaurant on Google Glasser: Man-child stinking up the joint feedly.com/e/3OsqKnpg via @CNET Nerd Stalker’s Speed Round: H-P Will Replace Verizon in Hosting HealthCare.gov Website (Wall Street Journal) http://bit.ly/1aZKedD Get Rewarded for Being Social with Your Purchases This Season | Nerd Stalker bit.ly/196q7aH CyanogenMod Installer Application Removed f...

If you are on social, most likely you share shopping experiences with your friends. Before you drop some cash on the big cyber monday coming up, check out SocialRebate . SocialRebate is an eMarketing service or solution that rewards you ($$) for being social about your e-purchase. See what Tom Larkin and Ben Stewart see the future of social commerce.

Living and working here in San Francisco, we think that the start-up universe centers here and for all practical purposes is the San Francisco / Silicon Valley (wink). Well, not true. The global ecosystem seems to be taking hold at a feverish pace and you don't have to be here in San Francisco to be relevant. After the conclusion of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we catch up with Torsten Kolind , CEO of YouNoodle to discuss the global startup ecosystem. Give it a watch. Also, a bonus infographic from YouNoodle, Startup Weekend and Global Entrepreneurship Week is found below.

Over 140,000 attendees. I will have a larger write up later regarding the Salesforce Dreamforce 2013 conference. Sorry for the latency in the beginning of the video I was dependent on the conference Wi-Fi but it gets better as it goes along. In this recap I discuss such topics as the fact that Heroku partially usurped the show, how salesforce is truly a platform now, how effective their sales process is in terms of closing deals with the enterprise so quickly, and how an Evernote booth person gave me the cold shoulder when asking about their new Evernote for business Salesforce integration.  They had a $1 million hacking prize.

Photo by Marie Domingo Check out the SF New Tech Post Show with #ThatTechGirl Liberty Madison and our Nerd Stalker writer Greg Viloria. They talk about they favorites and not-so-favorites of the 11.20 SF New Tech Event with  Mosey ,  Polkast ,  Tame ,  AirPair ,  SkyDrive  and a date challenge with #ThatTechGirl via  Mosey . Watch to learn more.

Today, we continue our monthly segment called Startup Blog Insights with Examiner writer and entrepreneur, Taffy Williams , who is the co-founder & CEO of Colonial TDC. Colonial TDC offers a professional team of scientific and business experts to build and grow medical and technology companies. Taffy also writes for the Small Business section of the Examiner.com with his own personal advice based on his personal insights and he has his own blog called Startup Blog .  He has some great stories for the years of experience that he shares in his blog. This month we are focusing on an article that was released on November 13 on examiner.com called ” 4 Ways to Enhance Idea Generation and Selection Critical to Business ” in light of Global Entrepreneurship Week .