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Yammer Gets Top Prize At Tech Conference

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Geni is the online, Web 2.0-style style genealogy and social networking web site headed up by former PayPal founder David Sacks; the firm is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund. READ MORE>>

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Calacanis Plans Competitor To TechCrunch

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Calacanis has reportedly set the launch of his new site, Launch--as well as an associated, TechCrunch50-like event--for February. Tags: jason calacanis mahalo launch techcrunch blog blogging publishing conference content. startups, and Calacanis has increasingly directed Mahalo along the path of editorial content.

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Interview with Edward Park, Insteegram

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Edward Park: When we first launched, we were a business to consumer service site. We're about a week or two from launching version 2.0, The other thing, is right now, as your volumes scale, your commission structure actually goes down on those sites. Then, for the TechCrunch conference last year, they needed some T-shirts made.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Of the ones I have been to recently, the Nantucket Conference has been my favorite. they released a new 2.0

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Interview with Jerome Chang, BlankSpaces

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Those could be mobile professionals, corporate firms, sales people, or people who normally work at client sites or home based offices. You can't take a conference call or a client call at a cafe, and it's all very noisy and distracting. We have Sometrics, which is kind of a search technology for Web 2.0,

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). But then I went to the Parnassus Group’s Twitter 140 conference run by Steve Broback and Brett Schulte. Then came blogs.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Another important web 2.0

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