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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

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Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. ANTHEM is referred to, depending on what segment you're looking at, as either a community gateway or social networking gateway. The client then presents the consumer with the opportunity to have a dashboard view of social networking sites.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. I talked about the platform moves of Twitter and why it should be expected. TweetPhoto - Real-time photo sharing platform. No big surprise.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Preliminary details: Social e-commerce site, based around celebrity and influencer-curated recommendations. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Real-time search engine.

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Interview with Kelly Tompkins, AdventureLink

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The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. Why did you decide to startup up another travel site? Their idea was to catch enough consumers to scale, but they didn't understand the cost of acquisition, of finding customers, marketing, and advertising. Thanks for the interview. Talk about your VoIP network?

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6 Top Trends For The Digital World In 2016

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The issue of cyber-espionage, targeting companies like Target, Home Depot and Anthem Insurance, continues to be a concern. As social media becomes a platform for online extremists, valid questions regarding freedom of speech, monitoring and censorship have arisen. wireless carriers will begin to treat enterprise customers differently.