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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Many “tech companies” now have green screens. It is adjacent to Mountain View, home to Google. Juniper and countless others. Today there’s many.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Founded in December 2006 in San Francisco by Farb Nivi (ex-Princeton Review/Kaplan top instructor). Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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

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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: I think the most important thing at the moment, is the end screen experience is one of the most important thing. What is Frequency? Blair Harrison: Frequency is an Internet video service.

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Why Microsoft Needed Perceptive Pixel & Vice Versa

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Microsoft is set to buy multi-user large display touch screens this summer the firms announced Monday. Microsoft is probably making the costly screens available for the public and embedded with their Windows 8 operating software and some hardware additions. Windows 8 also works well with the PPI screens.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. Nils Forsblom: Back in 2004, I met a girl when I was here on vacation.

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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By late 2005 and 2006, we saw the return of 3D movies, made possible by the digital projectors. One is really fake, and is the "simulated 3D" that most converters use, which essentially offsts different lines on the screen different amounts, which makes a picture look like it has different depth. There also automatic converters.

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Mindshare LA Brings the Power of “Play” to Santa Monica

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In 2006, Douglas Campbell started Mindshare LA out of the downtown art colony The Brewery. Campbell quickly formed a thriving community he calls “Mindshaians” who flocked to attend his various salons, workshops, screenings, and cultural outings. “In