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WebbyConnect Summit

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Friday, October 24, 2008 -- WebbyConnect Summit. The inaugural WebbyConnect, held in October 2007, brought together over 250 Webby academy members and leaders in interactive media, entertainment, advertising, design and politics to explore the future of the Internet and emerging media.

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WebbyConnect Summit

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Thursday, October 23, 2008 -- WebbyConnect Summit. The inaugural WebbyConnect, held in October 2007, brought together over 250 Webby academy members and leaders in interactive media, entertainment, advertising, design and politics to explore the future of the Internet and emerging media.

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WebbyConnect Summit

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 -- WebbyConnect Summit. The inaugural WebbyConnect, held in October 2007, brought together over 250 Webby academy members and leaders in interactive media, entertainment, advertising, design and politics to explore the future of the Internet and emerging media.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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But we had a great chance to talk about the recent moves that Twitter has made to “plug holes” and changing its “TOS” on advertising. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

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We were crowd sourcing artists and design. But, with the economy turning south in 2008, lots of those customers went out of business. In the meantime, Groupon came along, and our media customers started to lose advertising. We learned that Groupon was taking their advertisers. That's where Deal Current was born.

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FlipGloss.com Targets Fashion Market

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Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo! FlipGloss said it is funded by Forbes Media, and received an undisclosed funding round in March of 2008.

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