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JANUARY 15, 2013

MySpace , the online social networking site which is now owned by Specific Media, has finally rolled out its new, Justin Timberlake-inspired web design, in conjunction with the release of a new single from Timberlake and JAY Z. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2011

While Google stopped Facebook in their tracks when they built a social networking company. And Facebook stomped out Twitter from building an open social network. Actually, I wouldn’t consider all of them “group messaging” companies but ever since SxSW that seems to be what the press wants to talk about. Focus wins.

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DECEMBER 14, 2009

As an entrepreneur people who aren’t going to respond to you and it’s your responsibility to politely and assertively stay on people’s radar screen. There were also press and other senior executives from the sector. Excite, Ask Jeeves and Lycos? Yeah, right.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I know this category has gotten a lot of press. We immediately decided we wanted to work with them and started a full-court press to invest.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

There was the usual cogent presentation by Brian Solis on the future of PR in which he implored us to get beyond the echo chamber of Silicon Valley and Techmeme and focus on staying on the radar screen of real America. In the afternoon we had a corker of panel. I think I could summarize the hour by saying, “don’t be a douche.”

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

First, how did I handle things like unexpected surges in traffic to my site (let’s say after a major press release) and then the subsequent flattening of traffic as the crowd subsided? It’s the input screens where we enter data or search requests. This is where the rubber hits the road for us as users. Other Layers.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

Get your press coverage. I was watching Meet the Press this morning and they put a big screen behind the guests with TweetDeck open and showing the constant stream of information about Egypt. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I was baffled.

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