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Calacanis Plans Competitor To TechCrunch

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Calacanis has reportedly set the launch of his new site, Launch--as well as an associated, TechCrunch50-like event--for February. In an email to subscribers of his personal mailing list earlier this week, Calacanis said the event will be held in San Francisco on February 23rd and 24th.

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Geni Adds "Family Finder"

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Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources. Geni operates a Web 2.0

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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

socalTECH

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We're up to around 2 million users who have created 30 million profiles on the site, and it's growing very fast month over month.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out.

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Microsoft Windows 8. Is it Game Changer?

Alon Schwartz

Every game, productivity tool, utility, chat, email, etc. The Internet evolved, became faster, reached more people, and new types of sites were created. Not just for consuming content but for sharing content (aka, web 2.0) But the main reason why everyone wanted Windows was software.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). We have spam filters for our email. Also, lost of people leaving comments on websites and having a dialog with other users.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?

Frank Addante

Of course, a lot of that time was spent convincing people that the Internet was going to grow, and therefore there was going to be a need to make it easy for people to find content and sites on the Internet. Even with my current company, StrongMail Systems ( Startup 5.0 ), an email infrastructure company, there were a number of skeptics.

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