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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Company still in beta. Competes with Seesmic , HootSuite , Brizzly.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Washington is run by a CEO reporting to a 535-member Board of Directors. Related to this, one of my personal initiatives at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) is called Social Software for Security, or S3. The report suggests that an NIF would boost productivity, innovation, and growth. government.

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

Both Sides of the Table

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. companies versus the Web 1.0