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Insights and Opinions: Social media: You at the Helm of Your Own New Starship

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For today's Insights and Opinions article, we have a piece from Tracy Olmstead Williams, of Olmstead Williams Communications, talking about the bold new world of social media: Social Media, like Global Warming, has now left doubters behind. Tags: insights opinions social media marketing press. 06 percent.

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BitVore Finds $4.5M For Big Data Software

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Irvine-based Bitvore , a startup developing big data and intelligence-gathering software which pulls information from both public and private data sources for businesses, said this morning that it has closed a $4.5M, Series A funding round. The funding was led by serial entreprenur Yuri Pikover, as well as $1M from crowdfunding.

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Cute Puppy Alert: DogVacay Uses Cute Dog Photos To Find Customers

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It''s almost always difficult to get people to share information about your startup to the world. Followers of the company''s Facebook page, blog, and Twitter feed are familiar with the steady drumbeat of cute dog and puppy photos that the company is always sharing--and, might now be familiar with DogVacay''s online peer-to-peer marketplace.

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How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd

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We make it really easy for consumers to compare information across similar retailers, and find the best deals. For a consumer, that makes it difficult to find and compare information. All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results.

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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

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He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. I think the financial vertical offers lots of native ideas, that aren't just display advertised based, because of all of our information and data.

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Interview with Matt Edelman, ThisNext

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Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. There are many style and fashion blogs, and are in a space to become influencers for women, however, none of them as of yet have as much influence as people who actually influence those bloggers.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. There's been a huge push to engage local businesses, to get them involve din social media, but video has yet to catch up.