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San Diego Meets the Xconomists: When Social Media is Not Enough

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View the Slideshow The technology for online social networks arrived practically hand-in-hand with the Internet. Since the advent of the World Wide Web in the mid-1990s, we’ve seen such networks proliferate, from the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link (remember The WELL?)

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StockTwits Integrates With HootSuite

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San Diego-based StockTwits said today that it has launched a new, app for HootSuite , the provider of software used for social media management. HootSuite also connects into social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+. StockTwits is lead by Howard Lindzon. READ MORE>>.

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Using Social Media to Market Your Business

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Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- Using Social Media to Market Your Business. San Diego Venture Group. Resistance to social media is futile. Millions of people are creating content for the social Web. Starting from a small base of enthusiast users, the service has rapidly risen to prominence in the media.

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Chi.mp Opens Registrations

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San Diego- and Honolulu-based Chi.mp domain name, and link that to their online social networking profiles and other social media sites. domain name, and link that to their online social networking profiles and other social media sites. allows users to select a personalized.mp

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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Last Week, Calabasas-based Masher Media announced it had received a round of angel funding from the Tech Coast Angels to fund its development of MyMiniPeeps (www.myminipeeps.com), a virtual world for children. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites.

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

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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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Broadcom, Chumby Link On Set Top Box Effort

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Irvine-based Broadcom and San Diego-based Chumby are working together to integrate Chumby's technology into set top boxes, the firms announced this morning. Chip maker Broadcom said that it is integrating Chumby's rich media Internet platform into a system-on-a-chip for digital television and set-top boxes.

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