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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. They sponsor TWiVC.

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

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in terms of time spent on the sites. Since 2006 I have been lamenting what I see as “the Facebook problem&# – they are trying to lump me into one big social network. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo!