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Every Online User Platform Needs Revenue To Survive

Startup Professionals Musings

A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new online platform startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with almost three billion user accounts, all free.

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

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information. My degree is from USC in big data.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

-Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. -A A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data.

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Interview with Idris Manley, NativeTung

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One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Interview with Tobi Bauckhage, Moviepilot

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Tobi Bauckhage: We are a movie recommendation and discovery platform. Our platform is all about connecting early fans and early audiences with new and upcoming movies, months before a movie comes out. and are now one of the largest media outlets for entertainment on the web and Facebook. What is the idea behind Moviepilot?

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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens

Tech Zulu Event

The platform allows users to sync content and commands across all four screens — the smartphone, tablet/pad, computer and TV. There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing.