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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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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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell. Competitors: Knewton.

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

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Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Recently, an interesting project popped up on the site--a a 2D to 3D conversion project , from the inventor of the original, LCD projector, Gene Dolgoff. There also automatic converters.

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. It's unique, in that it encompasses the concept that the kids are empowered to run the community, instead of just hanging out and visiting it like most sites.

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Interview with Vince Bianco, Newsforce

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San Diego-based Newsforce (www.newsforce.com) is a startup which is looking to take advantage of the hunger of the newspaper and media business for revenue, and has created a product which takes press releases and commercial content, and inserts them onto news sites in "sponsored content" blocks. Our tool is integrated onto their site.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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What we've done, is for authentication, we have created a way to have a unique password to give you access to a web site very time. It has nine pictures or more on screen, and in each location there are pictures that contain pictures from your category or have different letters in different locations.

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How FreeConferenceCall.com Made Audio Conferencing Free

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We get around 22 percent of those users from our marketing efforts, but the other 78 percent are from viral effect and word of mouthall those people hearing the greeting and going to the web site. 2006, however, was hotter than a biscuit. We''ll be adding other features, like screen sharing, and a video beta for video conferencing.