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Boomers are Driving a New Entrepreneurship Boom

Startup Professionals Musings

Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year. The number of Facebook users in the US aged 55 and older grew from around 1 million in early 2009 to 10 million in early 2010.

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Your Next Startup Will Likely Be Run By a Boomer

Startup Professionals Musings

Half of the Internet users aged 50-64 use social media now, an 88 percent growth from the previous year. The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity declined slightly in 2009, but remained substantially higher than the native-born rate.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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There are presently many new efforts under way to refine and improve the world of social media, some of which we’ll explore here and many which are just beginning. Disconnects between older and newer generations of social media. Poor integration between social media and location services.

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