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GraphEffect Taps Social Media Experts For Advisory Board

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Santa Monica-based GraphEffect , which develops social marketing software, is tapping a bank of experts in the social media industry for its advisory board, the company announced today. Ollinger was an earlier employee at Facebook, and also served at Launch.com and Yahoo. GraphEffect said it has added Paul Ollinger, J.B.

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Taking on the Issues of the Day with Jonathan Strauss

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What went wrong at Yahoo!? Jonathan Strauss is ex Yahoo!). Is App.net right the rail against ad-supported social networks or ad-supported products more broadly? should have admitted it was a media company years ago and become the market leader in that in stead of chasing Google. So the issues we took on this week?

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Disney Names Playdom's Pleasants, Yahoo's Pitaro As Co-Presidents

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Burbank-based Walt Disney said this weekend that it has promoted John Pleasants, the former CEO of Playdom , as co-President of its Disney Interactive Media Group , along with James Pitaro, most recently of Yahoo! Pleasants joined Disney in July, when Disney paid more than $760M for social games developer Playdom. READ MORE>>.

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CHNL Ties Into Groupon, LivingSocial

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The company says its goal is to become the "Yahoo!, MSN, or Google for the social media age." CHNL's software lets users create their own "channels", incorporating content from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and elsewhere, and share that out to their friends. CHNL is headed by John Wander. READ MORE>>.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! who gladly offered to sponsor the event and provide the venue at Yahoo!’s I could go on and on, but in closing, my experience in using social media/networking has been short but remarkably fruitful.

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StockTwits Hires Two

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San Diego- and New York-based StockTwits , the online social media site focused on stocks and finance, announced today that it has hired two VPs. The firm said it has hired Chris Bullock as Vice President of Corporate Services, and David Putnam as Vice President of Product Development. READ MORE>>.

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UberMedia Names VP

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Pasadena-based UberMedia , the Idealab-backed developer of mobile and desktop messaging and social media apps, is announcing this morning that it has hired Ken Rudman as its Vice President of Developer Relations. Rudman has also served at Technicolor, Overture/Yahoo! Search Marketing, and Citysearch.com.

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