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Comments are the New Black

Both Sides of the Table

Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I’ll engage with you on this blog …from there, a follow on Twitter, a link on LinkedIn are closing the loop of connection rather that opening a cold door.&# This is so true.

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With GreatCall Deal, GTCR Looks to Expand Healthtech for Boomers

Xconomy

The company, founded in 2006, began by selling easy-to-use “Jitterbug” mobile phones, and expanded its offerings to include a variety of welfare and safety-related services. A key part of this strategy are call centers (GreatCall CEO David Inns insists on calling them “caring centers”), where trained agents.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Mobile gifting service. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Map of VC Investments

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. in Computer Science.

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

socalTECH

Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. Blair Harrison: Frequency was borne out of a frustration of mine, which is having to visit many different places to consume video, from a combination of social networks, to blogs, to apps. What is Frequency?

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

Xconomy

Certona describes itself as an “omnichannel” vendor—meaning its technology enables retailers to collect consumer data across online, mobile, e-mail, call center, and in-store interactions. Certona uses the data to offer shoppers personalized options based on “real-time profiling.”. It has allowed us to scale in a very measured way.”.

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Internet Video is Hot, But Not a Money-Maker Yet

Startup Professionals Musings

One video blog (now called vlog) on YouTube has over two million subscribers. billion for the site in 2006. Video is going mobile with the high bandwidth like all new applications. It looks like YouTube has a lock on the video blogging, which is still coming of age and yet to make money.

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