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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

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And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) So throughout 2006/07 when I had really young kids Facebook was truly a social network for sharing family moments.

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Map of VC Investments

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool!

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

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Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. Blair Harrison: Frequency was borne out of a frustration of mine, which is having to visit many different places to consume video, from a combination of social networks, to blogs, to apps. What is Frequency?

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist).

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada.

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Flying With A Wounded Wing: Why Twitter Still Has More Than A Chance

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Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. What Twitter looked like soon after launch in 2006. Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) September 4, 2010. A new social pipeline, the quick blogging style, the similarity to texting: all these things were great for Twitter.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. I have personally reported ThingFetcher to Rackspace twice, by the way.