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Best Friday Reads: Social Media Rules Us All, and Mints Billionaires

Xconomy

While the evolution from hunched primates to homo sapiens took tens of millions of years, we needed only about a decade to develop an arched neck that is perennially looking down at a smartphone—presumably one with a social media app open.

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Social Innovation

SoCal CTO

I just ran into Chris Gammil's post New Era of Social Innovation where he describes it as: The model takes the best of the OPEN model and pushes right out into the open, further distributing idea sourcing, team forming, development, commercialization and economic distribution. What are some of the drivers?

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

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Aaron Fyke, Thin Line Capital: The Second Wave Of Cleantech Investing

socalTECH

You then caught things like Web 2.0, social media, and everything else. Then, the only billion dollar businesses were new solar technology and greentech media. I want to know that you can serve real customers, immediately, without too much development into the future. Now, there are over 500 gigawatts.

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Toronto Based Start Up Readitfor.me | Reads Books for You

Tech Zulu Event

founder, Steve Cunningham, this is exactly the thought process he went through when developing a product to help you take in and use information faster. Cunningham’s current business, a marketing agency, Polar Unlimited in Toronto, had expanded in growth through the last decade by embracing social media and web 2.0.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. they released a new 2.0 You could just outspend. Innovative.

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