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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. 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. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. MetaMarkets.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Most likely, a Level 2 platform's apps also call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

One very encouraging note these organizations are trying to use "Web 2.0" Just yesterday, I had a great talk with a Los Angeles-based computer game designer who has worked with the U.S. An interesting anecdote about use of Web 2.0 and "new media" to connect with audiences. Army, for example. Tim Ryan (D-OH) and Rep.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. The Present Era.