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Lance Tokuda's SchoolFeed rounds up $1.75M for fast-growing classmates network
...ved far beyond that demographic group. Only about 8 percent of Facebook users have more than half of their high school classmates as friends. The round was led by First Round Capital, with additional funds provided by Crosslink Capital, InterWest, and SK Telecom. The company makes money through ads and virtual currency. You can earn the currency by participating in the site, doing things such as...
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9 Ways B2Bs Can Excel With Location-Based Social Media
... An important question for you is, how can you adapt to using Foursquare tips at physical locations so it makes sense for your B2B? 3.) Create Lists of Tips on Foursquare Creating lists of your Foursquare tips allows you to group your tips based on a subject of your choice like a list of airports with Wi-Fi or restaurants with vegan options. B2B's can group their existing tips based on...
Singapore's Teamie wins Startup Arena competition, and a US$10,000 check
...and absorb. Yet, for those without design or Photoshop skills, creating a beautiful infographic is at best an aspiration. To address this, Picktochart has created a web app that lets users easily create highly-customizable infographics. The other finalists: Mockups, Dr Pad, Flocations, Panoplaza, Vibease, CloudyRec, Gspot, SecQMe, Gushcloud, Justaple, Sakebii, Spelldial, Acheevit, and Phroni. Mo...
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Internet Social
...rticle about the development of social networks in the West. There occurred a revolution in the minds of people when they started using such sites. In order to believe me and see it yourself, go to this page of my site and watch videos and I also decided to change their tactics and learn to work in social networks. To do this, I spent a month, has mastered the social network of "My World" and fou...
Enterprise Social Networking: Focus on Relationships (Altimeter Report)
...ting is that enterprise social networks don’t actually reduce internal email. The report also includes an actionable plan to get started, while there’s lots of details in the bullet points (filled with real world examples from real research interviews), they include four ways ESNs drive business value, including: 1) Encourage Sharing, 2) Capture Knowledge, 3) Enable Action, and 4) Empower peo...
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Media Mock Draft: Re-Imagining the NFL Coverage Team for Each Major Network
...esn't have the same name recognition as the other elite news people around the NFL. CBS' in-game coverage of Tirico-Collinsworth will appeal to a lot of fans, but I'm not sure anyone is turning in to see Brown and LaCanfora before the game. NFL Network boosts their game broadcast with Pam Oliver, who does really underrated work as FOX's premier sideline reporter. Sideline reporters are somewhat f...
Ron Conway is a Silicon Valley startup's best friend
...he likes of Marissa Mayer, the Google exec; Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder; Jed York, the owner of the 49ers; and Brian Wilson, the San Francisco Giants pitcher. On a quiet comer of the deck, each of them performs a few hip-hop moves for the camera while lip-syncing to the refrain of MC Hammer's "Too Legit to Quit" for a remake of the rapper's 1991 hit. (The video ended up featuring cameos from o...
Lessons from TeachStreet, folding into Amazon
... when the expense shortfall or the net losses started piling up," he explained. "We looked at things and felt the better thing was to find a partner who already had a lot of traffic and matched our content." It turned out the partner was right outside TeachStreet's office in South Lake Union, which is now dominated by Amazon's headquarters. A month ago Schappell subleased TeachStreet's space to ...
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Data for the public good
...here is a tremendous amount of work ahead in building upon the foundations that civil society has constructed over decades. If you want a deep look at what the work of digitizing data really looks like, read Carl Malamud's interview with Slashdot on opening government data. Data for the public good, however, goes far beyond government's own actions. In many cases, it will happen despi...
How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling
...owth" in each country. Beyond the humiliating difficulties for millions of impoverished individual women trying to improve themselves and support their families, this is a global issue with significant consequences for the economies of developing countries. Scharpf was passionately determined to find a solution, tackling the problem the way she always does — by talking with people...
Indian music service Saavn sees meteoric growth from Facebook's Open Graph
...is based in India, the service is available across 200 countries and a key focus of this year will be to increase its presence in emerging markets, where usage of the Web and smartphones is growing steadily. Not content with sticking to its bases, the company plans to introduce more regional content across Asia and other regions, so that Internet users in other languages can find value in its ser...
Keep your online ID squeaky clean during your job search
...of company you keep on the net and whether you demonstrate "online etiquette." The rationale about this is that employers are trying to investigate what your psychological behaviour is on the internet. After all, social media is, as one pundit phrased it, "the psychology of people." In relation to your online "behaviour," I have a sobering statistic to pass onto job seekers. Recently, Microsoft ...
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Beware Of Billionaires Bearing Gifts
...lly paranoid. I have a lot of madness in my family. So far I have escaped it." Just. One bout of instability came in the early 1980s. His fund was doing extremely well when he walked away from his partner, first wife and family. It was a "very intense emotional process to correct errors," he explains. "The psychic cost of running the fund was very hi...
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Shows Their True Colors
...en's apology represents a happy ending and that we can all go back to supporting both organizations. But this incident has brought so much information to light that many people are rethinking their support of Komen. (As we mentioned in our last post, we've done the Race for the Cure in the past but more recently we've been critical of the Komen foundation as well.) There's so much info out there a...
TNI Trend List: Does Google+ Work for Businesses?, "Web Second" Design
...ffer Businesses an Edge?Click the link for a great case study of a small company strategically using Circles and +1’s to leverage the unique strengths of Google+. Can Small and Medium Sized Business Get and Advantage with Google+? The “Mobile First” web design philosophy has been gaining momentum in recent years as more and more web traffic shifts to the mobile space. However this philosoph...
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Valentine's Day Lovers Feel the Pinch: Who Foots the Bill?
... Traditional Outlook in a Modern World: 58 percent believe the man should be the one to pay for Valentine's Day dinner with one respondent noting, "It's part of the romance. You always have to make a good woman feel special!" Rip Off That Band-Aid: About 67 percent said that if they were in a relationship that was rocky, they would end it BEFORE Valentine's Day, rather than wait it out. On...
Video Volunteers Looks to Mainstream Media for Growth
...N IBN has talked in media interviews (including when he's been interviewed about Video Volunteers) about the "tyranny of distance," and how the remote areas of the country are often prohibitively expensive to cover. Someone at a government channel even told us that our idea couldn't work with the government channel "because all our stringers are political appointees!" But despite all this, we're ...
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Canada to Get Apple's iTV?
... with Apple to become Canadian launch partners for its much-hyped Apple iTV, reports the Globe and Mail. Apple’s television product remains cloaked in secrecy, but a rumored 42-inch “Apple HDTV” for $1,499 could effectively be a 42-inch iPad, with access to the App Store, media downloads through the iTunes Store, and iCloud integration. “They’re looking for a partner. They’re looki...
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iQuest, Now Lightbound
...tion enables high-speed performance and lower cost of ownership and allows researchers to retrieve results that are both intuitive and non-intuitive. iQuest is able to analyze unrelated collections of documents to automatically surface patterns and associations by clustering previously unconnected documents, blogs, RSS feeds, email and other unstructured data. It employs unique Social Network Ana...
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SXSW Accelerator Names Music Tech Finalists
...h 14th in Austin. The 2012 finalists: Ovelin Tampere, Finland ovelin.com WildChords by Ovelin is an iPad game that makes learning to play the guitar fun, addictive and motivating. It is played with any real guitar, and requires no additional equipment. Ovelin is the #1 music app in 34 countries, iPad game of the year (Tilt TV), Best European Learning Game 2011 (LUDUS). ...