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Brickfish Snags Sales Exec From Google

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San Diego-based Brickfish , a developer of social media and networking software being used by brands, reported today that it has hired on a Paul Botto, most recently Head of Analytics for the North American Sales Organization at Google, as its Vice President of Sales. Brickfish is venture backed by DCM, Draper Richards L.P.,

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Anybeat Rolls Out Chat Roulette Feature

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Taking a chapter out of the popularity of sites like Chatroulette in connecting up strangers with one another, Los Angeles-based Anybeat , the alternative social networking site run by Dmitri Shapiro, said Friday that it has rolled out a new feature called "Interest Roulette". Shapiro was the founder of Veoh and former CTO of MySpace Music.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. The build “implicit social networks.&#

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Report: Dmitry Shapiro To Head Up Google Plus

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A report today says that Dmitry Shapiro , the former founder of Veoh and head of MySpace Music, and currently founder of alternative social networking site Anybeat , may be heading to Google to head up its Google+ efforts. The report , from PandoDaily, cited a single source for the information. READ MORE>>.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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The reason I was brought in, was because one of my board members, Tim Draper, who was a board member at my first company, encouraged me along with some of the other partners at Epic to come and spend a year there. You''d find one friend at Google, another at Facebook, you could sit together, iterate, and make it happen.

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TechZulu Partners with meebo!

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All you have to do is hover over any video or image and drag it to the network or service of your liking. If you look to the bottom of your browser you will see to the far right the ability to connect to Facebook, AIM, Google Talk and other chat networks. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

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2009 Coming To A Close, 2010 Just Around The Corner!

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SXSW Interactive features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders and an unbeatable line up of special programs showcasing the best new websites, video games and startup ideas the community has to offer.