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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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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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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

Along the way, we found ourselves constantly surprised by unanticipated applications that suddenly appeared and gained huge adoption across the Internet; this was the case with email, the World Wide Web, peer-to-peer file sharing, user generated content, Napster, YouTube, Instagram, social networking, etc.

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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.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. com, and was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA.