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Social Networking and Business Value

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Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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You fill out the short questionnaire, lawyers submit their price quotes, and they get hired. The younger attorneys like this, and think it''s very cool, because it saves lots of time and exposes them to clients they never would have been exposed to in the first place. There are over 100 different questionnaires on the website.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. The poor guy.

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Innovation and Geography

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? that talked about a recent NY Times article When It Comes to Innovation, Geography Is Destiny. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. This has been very appealing to the top tier filmmakers, who have A-list and B-list talent. Where's the service now?

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Kareo: Bringing The Power Of the Cloud to Small Medical Practices

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I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We worked on all kinds of projects, including an online auction site for real estate, kiosks for airports, and music. We were hired by a company that did outsourced medical billing and consulting for physicial medicine and rehab doctors.

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