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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Julie Schoenfeld On Perfect Market's New Funding

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What that did, is it helped us to expand the service to help publishers do the following: identify what content to write, how to distribute that content to various mediums, and how to monetize that content. We make sure that content is available, and linked to current news stores. Right now, news organizations write off the news cycle.

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How to use PR Firms at Startups

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You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. It will take them time to know your company, socialize your story with the right journalists, wait until those journalists are gearing up to write relevant stories, etc.

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We’re All Frogs Boiling in Water

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Technological change is astounding and I think none more than the impact that social networks has had on our lives. If you haven’t read it I think it’s a pretty interesting piece on change in the era of Twitter (as distinct from previous social networks). Writing has a way of forcing focus and reflection.

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition. We grew out of an interesting use case. It ran in April of 2008.

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How Dare They Block My Facebook at Work?

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Based on a survey just last year by Robert Half Technology , over half of today’s companies block social networks completely, while another 19 percent only permit it "for business purposes." Social networks have become a great vector for Trojans like Zeus and URLZone. To me, the answers are clear.

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Don’t Try to “Pull an Instagram.” Here’s Why …

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…” I’ll write soon on my views of why I believe Instagram took off as a social network and what I think comes next. Instagram happens to be one of the few social networks I regularly use along with Twitter. case, which is what is often never written in the annals of the tech news media.