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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. Through the use of social networking, we have sold out all 150 spots available for this event two weeks before the date and recently added another 50 to accommodate the demand.

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Zodiac805 Targets Automated Lead Generation

socalTECH

Greenspan said the goal of the new company is to build an automated system that taps into social networks to find customers, based on their online presence: for example, if a user complains on Facebook that they are unhappy with their current Internet service, the firm promises to help deliver that customer to a telecom or cable provider.

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Citrix GoToTraining Adds Social Features

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The Santa Barbara-based arm of Citrix Systems , which develops GoToMeeting and other online communications and sharing software, said today that it ad tied its GoToTraining training software with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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“Superfriends” to Appear on Food Network via meetup.com

Eric Greenspan

Social networking at it’s finest… I’m sitting at a local brewery watching football with my wife and friends a month back and I get an email from someone who had just visited my Meetup.com site. I never imagined the Food Network would find me there. I created the site to make new friends and to learn things.

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How To Snag Lunch With A High-Profile Entrepreneur

InfoChachkie

Benedikt Scholz is an exceptional student whom I had the pleasure of instructing when he recently studied at UC Santa Barbara. Before arriving in Santa Barbara, he had already launched his first startup, Rooming , which helps college students manage their living accommodations while studying abroad or interning.

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SendMeHome.com Adds Facebook App

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Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome.com , a startup which runs a service which combines social networking with a way to help people retrieve lost objects, has launched a new Facebook application today.

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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

ARPA, the Advanced Research Projects Agency, (now called “DARPA”) awarded a contract to scientists at the private firm Bolt Beranek and Newman to implement a router, or Interface Message Processor; UCLA was chosen to be the first node in this fledgling network. That’s how the Internet was conceived and nurtured.

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