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uSamp Eyes Check-Ins For Mobile Surveys

socalTECH

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Classmates.com Hit By Trademark Suit

socalTECH

United Online shifted Classmates into the nostalgic content market in February, as adoption of social networking sites like Facebook made the firm's prior business model irrelevant. Classmates' Memory Lane provides nostalgic magazines, school yearbook pictures, song samples, and more. READ MORE>>.

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The Convergence of Social Media & Traditional Radio

Eric Greenspan

For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. But there’s more…on this show, we control the content and we have built the social media right into the program. Here’s a sample of what you might hear on the show: TECH NEWS – Top technology headlines.

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Take Back Your Internet, Leave Klout

Tech Zulu Event

The inverted logic loop of Klout works like this, “If you use a social network and connect to the right people, and they reshare what you share, and so on, we’ll give you a biscuit.” That means all you have to do is go buck-wild and crazy on top of the social network mechanical bull to make ends meet!

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Don’t Count on Crowd-Funding to Save Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

These are variations on a “crowd-funding” theme to raise money for a startup through social networks and voting at public events. Crowd-sourcing tools, usually Internet applications, use the social media to poll for interest, feedback, and ultimately some funding for the startup.

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Recruitment Goal In Obama Precision Med Study: 1M in 3 or 4 Years

Xconomy

In addition to people sharing blood and tissue samples—which will be housed in a biobank run by the Mayo Clinic —the NIH wants to open the study to people who share personal information and health information, perhaps transmitted via wearable devices.

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Echo Labs Wins “Quick Pitch” Contest with Digital Hybrid Microscope

Xconomy

Cho made his case for Revolve, a digital instrument created for biology labs that combines the features of an upright microscope (for viewing glass slides) and an inverted microscope (for viewing live samples in a petri dish).