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Advertising giant buys Blast Radius

Blast Radius has been acquired by the WPP Group. It ruled the growing realm of social networking, which is particularly popular among younger consumers who share information about themselves on Web sites more...
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Startup Wix To Help Users Build Flash Websites

Israel based startup Wix wants to help Users to build Flash websites. No programming skills needed and you can publish your stuff anywhere. Right now, released in private beta, it aims to scale up rather more...
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Can You Make An NYC Startup Work?

One of the toughest things to do is to get a startup in NYC to be successful - very challenging to find good people, good office space that is reasonable, and try finding funding for such a venture. But, more...
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Demise of PodTech?

The secret diary of the fake Steve Jobs is predicting that PodTech is closing doors and that Scoble is moving on. This has generated a lot of hubbub in the blogosphere with Scoble hotly denying it (of more...
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French EDA startup brings in new technology

DeFacTo Technologies SA is bringing design-for-testability (DFT) to a higher level of abstraction with a software tool that enables designers to plan, analyze and implement IC test logic before synthesis. more...
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Jango's Social Music Service Shines In a Crowded Market

Jango is a social music site. Jango was founded by an international band of mysterious outlaws; they participated in the first bubble, including in European giant portal Spray and "monopoly cable TV stations" more...
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Weak Ties and Diversity in Social Networks

Weak ties are relationships we have with people outside our own social networks. We don’t utilize them often, but we utilize them in certain situations to help us with things our social networks can’t. more...
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Jump Start Websites With Jumpchart

Diagrams play a very important role in planning and communicating a site’s architecture. They help you visualize a project before developing and piecing things together, leading to smarter design decisions. more...
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Forget Paper and Sign Contracts Online With Tractis

Tractis, which recently came out of private beta, allows you to negotiate and execute worldwide legally binding contracts online. Tractis’ focus is making e-commerce more safe by providing not only digital more...
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How the Portals Will Win the Social Networking Wars

Steve Rubel talks about Social Networking Wars: "Every time I make a prediction, there's a better than 90% chance I am going to be wrong. But this one, you can take to the bank. The portals - AOL, Yahoo, more...
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