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Report: Ring's Gave Unfettered Access To Cameras To Employees

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Santa Monica-based Ring , the maker of connected video doorbells, video cameras, and other home security products (which is now part of Amazon), has has huge success in appealing to people looking a better feeling of safety and security in their home.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Total raised: $5.3mm Read more: TechCrunch. __.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. Earlier in her career, Robin held strategic planning, brand management, new product development, and marketing services roles at The Coca-Cola Company, Revlon, and Johnson & Johnson.

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

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Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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

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If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. I’ve written extensively on the topic , but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine.