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OCTOBER 24, 2010

For example, my personal interest is entrepreneurs, and MySpace is for tweens. Me going to MySpace is sort of like your parents crashing your high school prom – everyone is uncomfortable and neither side has any fun. Every social network, including MySpace, claims to be a mecca for business people to network and sell products.

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MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. There are also lots of tools to customize their store front, to match the look and feel of any destination they might have on the web--whether that's a MySpace page, their own site, etc. for a shirt.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. Finally, I HATE the name.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

the digital studio/accelerator headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. I think it was Sean Pervical who first signed up for our coming soon page, and we reached out to him, had some coffee, had a few followup meetings, and met Mike. The firm is one of the companies which has recently emerged from Science, Inc., READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2012

The company also made quite an impression with its viral video --which you have to watch to appreciate--of CEO Michael Dubin extolling the virtues of the company's products, and panning overpriced, expensive razor brands. That's the one we'll mass product. We talked with Dubin earlier about the company. It's David vs. Goliath.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace. We like this business--they've just released one of their three or four different product lines, which are coming later. Thanks for the interview.

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JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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APRIL 12, 2013

million new users and 22 million unique page views to its clients’ sites as a result of its effective campaign execution. Pinterest is also good for brands as it holds the number 2 spot for largest social network, ties with Twitter but bigger than Instagram, Tumblr and Myspace.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

It’s as good as it gets in personal productivity / life reflection. I know that would be surprising to many readers since keeping a blog somehow convinces people that I’m a time management or productivity ninja. That’s why productivity wasn’t tough for me as a CEO. I’m not. I hear it all the time.

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APRIL 17, 2010

Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. The product focuses on the in-store behavior of consumers.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. If anybody is to show ads you then need to decide: banner ads (how’d that go for MySpace?), Just ask MySpace. He’s product obsessed, visionary, inspirational and contagious to be around. contextual text ads (e.g.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

When we tune into any stream: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc., The configuration of the team was: 1 CEO, 1 Product Lead and a tech team of 6 people. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction. Thus, we click! And it turns out that we click a lot.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

businesses and points of interests; products; and much more, plus an extensive set of application programming interfaces (APIs) to. Gravity--headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--developer software which presents, in real time, personalized web pages. based on what consumers are most interested in. Jason Lehmbeck, the.

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

Sites like Amazon.com are good at fulfilling products, but I want to learn from other people who are passionate about being green, who are interested in helping and sharing with other people. My son was learning about things in school, talking about global warming, and I read the first two pages of a book by Paul Hawken, and it sold me.

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MAY 7, 2011

There’s a good possibility there was a QR code on it offering you free tracks from the band’s MySpace page. We enjoy tinkering with objects, reverse engineering products, and building things. Remember that promotional advertisement handed to you about the big concert coming next month? The best part is…IT’S EASY.

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MARCH 1, 2013

They attended other DEV events such as the AT&T Aspire Mobile App Hack-a-thon hosted in LA to spread the word, created an event page and began registration through Eventbrite as early as September of 2012. Microsoft , MySpace , WIX and Nokia all joined the Sponsors list by providing funds and products to distribute as awards.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Modern Social Networking: Friendster, MySpace & Facebook.

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AUGUST 17, 2014

Nanea help leadership roles at EA (SVP, COO Global Online), Gaikai (Chief Product Officer, Chief Strategy Officer), JAMDAT (SVP), Machinma (COO) and currently textPlus (President & COO – including leading engineering and product). Here are some things we discussed: User experience focused product management.

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JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Our goal was to take those observations, and subsequent research, and turn that into commercial products.

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MARCH 1, 2010

And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. If you look at Google in the way they operate, you have two products, one is called AdWords, one is called AdSense, okay? Be extra productive. What is happening in L.A. today that drives the startup community? Learn more.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. His second venture was Tesla Motors, creating the first production electric car of the modern era. Think the new products are the only big things happening for Apple today? Skip to primary content.

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MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

which has already been adopted by Facebook, MySpace, Windows Live, and Opera and many others with Google and Yahoo! There are also efforts emerging, such as WebFinger , to make metadata about people more open and easily obtainable instead of relying on profile pages on proprietary social networking services or poorly supported microformats.

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JULY 10, 2011

And better yet, the company has a product that will turn the stream into a lake. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. One story is, “Hey, maybe there’s something to this Google+ product?”. It is a must have if you’re building a technology product these days.

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MAY 7, 2011

While customers will be willing to try your product, they think two steps ahead. The role of Product Managers at Technology Companies. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Microsoft and Apple have a role of product manager as different from a program manager. 15 minutes.

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