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Geni Connects With Facebook

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Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed firm which has developed an online, Web 2.0-style style genealogy and social networking web sites for families, has connected the company's service with the popular Facebook social networking web site.

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

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After that, I had the opportunity to move to Australia in 2007, and joined a venture capital firm called Starfish Ventures. In 2007, the cleantech excitement was in full swing. You then caught things like Web 2.0, Back when I was doing energy investing in 2007, there were only 7 gigawatts of solar power world wide.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. event I did last fall.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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Greg Brogger: I founded BrightHouse in the middle of 2007, along with Scott Painter. Towards early 2007, Scott and I had taken Zag to a level of some measure of stability, and we were thinking about the next thing. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0

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Interview with George Ruan and Donald Patterson, Quub

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Don Patterson: I was doing my graduate studies at the University of Washington, and was doing things in the field of activity recognition, which is recognizing sensors and getting computers to identifying what people are doing. The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0

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Are we creating a vibrant future for California?

AeA Los Angeles Council

While the growth of Web 2.0 Taki was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on December 6, 2007. Our state fosters a climate for progressive, innovative businesses that create jobs, stimulate our state's economy and lead the way for a better, cleaner and healthier world. Click to register ) Ms.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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And all too often I hear upon success, “Yeah, I was actively involved on that one. It was 2007. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, The management team wasn’t strong enough. That’s why we didn’t succeed.&# That’s the rationalization for the failure. I was baffled.