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Mark Cuban is, as usual, insightful when he describes the potential of Facebook profiles to be used as the basis for smarter social applications outside of Facebook. His call for a truly open Facebook more...
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Topic: Social Networking
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393 days ago (radar.oreilly.com)
Similar to WooMe (which is still in private alpha) dates are short, (hopefully) sweet, and one-on-one. SpeedDate will match you up based on some basic personality and geographical preferences. And starting more...
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Topic: Social Networking
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393 days ago (webware.com)
While the general understanding of Web 2.0 is improving all the time, we have a ways to go before we have a concise, generally accepted definition. My favorite is still networked applications that explicitly more...
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Topic: Startup Lessons
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393 days ago (web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com)
Storage brings in about $2.4 billion a year for Dell, much of it from the resale of devices made by EMC Corp. (EMC). In other words, despite making a lot of sales, Dell doesn’t get a bigger piece of more...
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Topic: Mergers and Acquisitions
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393 days ago (gigaom.com)
While it seems to be a clever idea, a quick review reveals that Beacon might turn out to be a privacy hairball for the company. Facebook announced that they will be delivering more targeted ads based on more...
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Topic: Advertising
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393 days ago (gigaom.com)
Two underlying causes of this phenomenon are the declining cost of developing technologies and acquiring customers. There are two theories - one says that traditional early-stage VC will die out, another more...
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Topic: Investment Trends
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406 days ago (centernetworks.com)
As per the internal memo of Microsoft, the current round of $240 million in Facebook is " a global expansion of our advertising syndication partnership with Facebook." Microsoft is billing is at investment more...
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Topic: Advertising
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406 days ago (news.com)
The rumor is that in addition to Microsoft chiiping in with $240 million, two New York based hedge funds also puped $250 million each into Facebook, bringing the total for this round to approx $750 million. more...
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Topic: Funding Announcement
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Vic
406 days ago (webware.com)
Well, his “news” on Podtech, the technology podcast network, going out of business enraged Robert Scoble. Robert Scoble called this information claiming that Podtech is alive and doing well. more...
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Topic: New Media
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406 days ago (mashable.com)
Google is planning to develop new products specifically for the Chinese market, where he estimates there are 500 million mobile users. Google has also invested in a p2p file sharing network specifically more...
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Topic: Mobile 2.0
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406 days ago (mashable.com)
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