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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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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". READ MORE>>.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Xobni “Social plug-in for Microsoft Outlook&# – As Enrique Gutierrez said on Twitter today, Xobni is “ the best damn thing ever for Outlook.&# Here’s the thing. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. The build “implicit social networks.&#

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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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