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

Both Sides of the Table

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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Interview with Matthew Graczyk, Zubican

socalTECH

--but businesses spend 18 trillion a year, but very few companies are trying to facilitate that kind of commerce. It was the third week of December 2006, and I was involved with a biodiesel company. It's a full-blown, B2B social network. What's your background, and how did you decide to start the company?

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

socalTECH

It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property. retailmarket is done through e-commerce. Social networking sites, and even the general enterprise has need for this. Yet, only four percent of the U.S.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away. Everybody is Selling Something: The Arrival of "Me-Commerce". The "old school" models of e-commerce, as dominated by bulky hosted storefron. Entrepreneurism / Monetization e-commerce, monetization, Selling. . Social Networks and Citizen Commerce: Reinventing Ecommerce.

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