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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. The web is broken by design and we cannot fix it anymore.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media. savvy, we have every social networking credential there is, and we've integrated those sites into the API. It's really helpful, particularly for companies who don't get social media. You did find some angel funding, didn't you?

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Matthew has seen hundreds of startups pitch funding though OCTANe’s LaunchPad program. Star Trek Contest. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Newsletters.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Team Rubicon unites the unique skills America’s returning veterans offer with the expertise of medical professionals; all while interactively engaging donors through social media. Lisa and her team create media projects designed to move the social progress agenda forward.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. My fund was an early investor in Overture. startup scene so hot.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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Please note that my design suggestions ain’t black nor white. Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media. Bear in mind that shortened URIs spread via social media do get abused.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). Social media is ephemeral.

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