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Yahoo Taps Former MySpace Exec For Revenue Chief

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It looks like Ross Levinsohn is building out his team to help out at troubled web portal and media firm Yahoo. Barrett was most recently at Google, where he had been since 2008, when Google acquired Admeld, where he was CEO. Barrett was Chief Revenue Officer at Los Angeles-based MySpace. READ MORE>>.

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MySpace Teams With Microsoft On KIN

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Los Angeles-based social networking web site MySpace has linked with Microsoft on the launch of Microsoft's new social networking-focused cell phones, the Kin 1 and the Kin 2. MySpace is one of social networking sites with built-in support on Microsoft's new phones. READ MORE>>.

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Michael Jones Gets Exit At Thing Labs

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Michael Jones , CEO of MySpace and former founder of Userplane, has another exit under his belt today, as AOL announced it has acquired Thing Labs , a San Francisco maker of web-based, social software. Thing Labs makes the Brizzly web-based software for sharing and discovering content.

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DailyFill Takes On Celebrity News

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Santa Monica-based Slingshot Labs , the startup incubator headed by MySpace co-founders Josh Berman and Colin Digiaro, officially rolled out its first web site this morning, DailyFill. The firm said the site has been in beta since late November 2008. READ MORE>>.

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Social Networking

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 -- "Social Networking: How it Can Add Value to Your Organization" MIT of the Central Coast Enterprise Forum. Social networking is the fastest growing activity on Web 2.0.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Founded by Shawn Gold (ex-MySpace CMO). MetaMarkets.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Total raised: $5.0mm.