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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 And so it goes with social networking.

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Why Did I Invest in the Company Pose?

Both Sides of the Table

What a sweet feeling it was last week to see the launch of the photo sharing site Pose , whose application targets shoppers of apparel. He wanted to be an entrepreneur. When I was an entrepreneur I had a term sheet with True Ventures (my second company) and thought highly of them. “And importantly Web 2.0

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Some Startup Opportunities Are Losers Today

Startup Professionals Musings

People are always asking me for an inside tip on Internet sites that will be “the next big thing.” Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites.

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Five Clues To Web 3.0 Opportunities Here Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Can you believe all the talk these days about Web 3.0? I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 People on the Web now include everyone.

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Popular Startup Opportunities That Aren’t

Startup Professionals Musings

People are always asking me for an inside tip on Internet sites that will be “the next big thing.” Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia lists about 300 sites by name, which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C.

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Interview with David Sacks, Geni and Yammer

socalTECH

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We also think there's a bit opportunity in family gift giving, and we've also partnered with a number of sites to enable that.

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