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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. Users leave messages for each other through BlockChalk mobile app. Mobile gifting service. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. BlockChalk.

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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. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. But it’s a real phenomenon.