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Two San Diego Sites Rank Tops In Rising Social Networking Interest

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A report issued this week by Experian Marketing Services has identified two, San Diego niche social networking sites as being among the fastest growing sites between July of 2011 and July of 2012. Image courtesy Bigstock.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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The Old Ways Of Social Media Marketing Are Broken

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By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012. Teens fueled that growth when in 2011 12% of teens reported using Twitter. In 2012 that number skyrocketed to 26%. SocialBakers , a site that tracks data, reported in December 2012 that 1.4 You need influencers more than advocates.

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

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According to the “ Small Business Marketing Forecast 2012 ” from Ad-ology, Social media for small business marketing has reached its tipping point. Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010. small businesses.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content.

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ZunguZ Facebook Payment Application | Interview With The Founder Robert Sussman

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We built a Proof of Concept in 2010, went into closed beta in 2011 and opened up to the public in Dec 2012. Rob and Lance made multiple business trips to the USA and UK in order to understand the offerings and strategy of existing payment providers, social networks, banks and financial service providers.

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Next Generation Hardware | Miselu Presents Musical Democracy at SXSW

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Although, the overall message of the film is quite bleak as they point to the mediocrity that more access to creation and freedom of distribution creates. . “The idea was to build something that ‘shows’ and ‘enchants,’” which is, in fact, what the Japanese word Miselu translates as.

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