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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

It is open also in the same way that Google was open in its early days. Google started as a place where you came to be taken via links to other people’s websites. I know many of you don’t remember the context, but that was heresy when Google started. Google was duuumb. That’s the Google lesson.

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Google Wants to Disrupt Home Automation with $3.2 Billion Nest Acquisition

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Google has acquired smart home appliance company, Nest Labs for $3.2 Google’s acquisition of Nest gives the the co-founders an early exit and resources to up their hardware game. Google EnergySense. Nest is not Google’s first hardware acquisition. ” Nest and Google are not new to each other.

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

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But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box & other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. This is where the digital media puck is going. Enter Google. So it is unsurprising to see companies like Sony, Logitech & Intel partner with Google.

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Zite | Your Personalized Magazine

Tech Zulu Event

Then we took a giant leap with social media integration. Zite, which was acquired by CNN in late 2011, is a personalized magazine to help clean up all that content overload we deal with on the web when trying to catch up on the days current events and instead delivers content based on your personal interest.

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Interview with Daniel Scalisi, MobileCause

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We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. What we've done, we've made this as simple as Google. It's a simple web service, where a customer can log in and can simply create and deploy any level of mobile donation or messaging campaign.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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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 I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].