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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. Finally, we started talking about the event on our radio show, Tech News, powered by Make It Work who is a co-sponsor now. Isn’t social networking amazing?

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Make navigation simple and consistent, with abundant online help The good news is that, if your company does it right, it might be another Amazon. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle.

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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

After we typed the first two letters from our computer room at UCLA, namely, “Lo” for “Login,” the network crashed. This enabled many aspects of the dark side to emerge (fraud, invasion of privacy, fake news, denial of service, etc.). That’s how the Internet was conceived and nurtured.

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Shared housing startups are taking off

TechCrunch LA

In startup-land, however, the presumptions about where housing demand is going looks a bit different. A Crunchbase News analysis of residential-focused real estate startups uncovered a raft of companies with a shared and temporary housing focus that have raised funding in the past year or so. Seeking roommates and venture capital.

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Julie Schoenfeld On Perfect Market's New Funding

socalTECH

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. When you see a story from the LA Times, you know there is a certain level of quality, and that it's written by a news publication you know about.

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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

Make your company visible, reachable and responsive through social networks. Make navigation simple and consistent, with abundant online help The good news is that, if your company does it right, it might be another Amazon. The bad news for startups is that your company can lose big if it’s caught in the middle.