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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Can social networking be a money-maker for companies?

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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

Both Sides of the Table

By now you probably know that David Sacks , co-founder of PayPal and founder of both Geni & Yammer made some observations on Facebook that Silicon Valley “as we know it” was coming to an end. And Dropbox & Box.net in a Google, Microsoft, Apple world. Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

Both Sides of the Table

Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. And I know that great startups like Yammer are doing well. The build “implicit social networks.&# But what I really think is interesting is that Tumblr build social networking features into their product.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

The late night didn’t make for a productive start to the morning but by the time Sean Percival got on stage to host the panel with Chris Brogan, Micah Baldwin (who started #FollowFriday) and Ben Huh (ICanHazCheeseburger) there was a great discussion on what it takes to be an Uber-blogger and social networker.

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Interview with Jon Ferrara, Nimble

socalTECH

Instead, they are using Outlook's address book, and Google contacts to communicate. The problem is that they don't live in those CRM tools like they do in Outlook, or on social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter. That is relationship nirvana, my vision of social business. That's a problem. Everything is in one place.

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The Amazing Power of Deflationary Economics for Startups

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Socially connected individuals and platforms that enable faster roll-outs of successful products. Payment ready consumers (Amazon, iTunes, PayPal) and businesses (Google AdWords, Square). In my estimation this is one of the biggest strategic mistakes Google has made in not competing more aggressively with AWS. All deflationary.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

To this day I’m astounded that IBM, Google, Sun, Microsoft and others didn’t offer this service and Amazon did. But the cloud-based stuff that we use every day as consumers (websites, Twitter, Facebook, Zynga) or as businesses (dropbox, gmail, Yammer, GoToMeeting) all rely on business logic created by application companies.

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