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TEDxBerkeley 2012: Inspiring Innovation
TEDxBerkeley 2012 was a Saturday well spent...I know the people that organize TEDxSF pretty well but this was my first time at TEDxBerkeley, which was held in the Zellerbach auditorium on the...
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Wow. Facebook Rules Prohibit Users From Promoting Their Work, Company, And...
Have you seen Facebook's rules for users, developers, and partners? They give Facebook tremendous powers to disable accounts and to make money from your content. Here are a few examples, you can see...
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Does Google Hire Of Apple Exec Show Hardware Ambitions?
Richard Waters, West Coast Managing Editor for the Financial Times, analyzes news that Google has hired Apple executive Simon Prakash, senior director of product integrity.
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Pearson Says FT 'Not For Sale' On Report Of Thomson Reuters Interest
Michael Wolff, a New York City based columnist for the UK newspaper The Guardian, writes that a source at Thomson Reuters has said that the giant news and information services firm is talking to...
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Silicon Valley's Media Industry Is Winning While The East Coast's Is Shrinking
...and the use of cutting edge technologies isn't helping them. GigaOM, the San Francisco based tech news publisher, announced it has acquired ContentNext, the publisher of the media industry trade...
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'Think Fair' Could Become The New 'Green' - Secretive Apple Opens Its Supply...
(Image by Damien Van Achter)Nick Wingfield and Charles Duhigg reported in today's New York Times' Bits blog:
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MediaWatch: Dan Lyons Calls Silicon Valley Journalism A 'Cesspool'
Dan Lyons, a columnist for Newsweek, has written a scathing attack on Mike Arrington and MG Siegler, who run CrunchFund, a small VC fund.The former editor and his reporter at TechCrunch, a leading AOL...
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The Hollow Core In Social Media Numbers - Many Are Fake Or Empty Accounts
The numbers of users reported by Facebook, Twitter, Google, and many other sites, are closely watched. They reveal trends in adoption and they are one of the few public metrics available to analysts...
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Pearltrees Announces $6.7m Funding Says It Will Start Charging For Premium...
Congratulations to Pearltrees, (a former client) on raising 5 million Euros, about $6.7 million in Series B funding. The Paris-based company offers a web service that groups users' selected web pages...
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Google's M&A Chief Says Deal Focus Has Changed
Google made 79 acquisitions last year, mostly small companies and mostly for their engineering talent. The largest acquisition was Motorola Mobility, a $12.5 billion deal.This year, the search giant...
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What's Ben Parr Up To? Some Hints...
I was on a panel on Friday at Visa, the credit card processor, along with Ben Parr, former senior editor at Mashable, and Jon Swartz from USA Today.
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Protest Planned at Apple HQ Infinite Loop For Shareholders Meeting
(Photo of demonstrators outside Apple store in San Francisco by Chris Knight.)Working conditions at factories that supply Apple products have become a massive issue for Apple. It has taken some steps...
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'Dear Instagram...' - Here's How To Apply For A Job At A Hot Startup
Alice Lee just upped the ante by a factor of 100 in what you need to do to get noticed when applying for a job at a hot startup:
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Infographic: Active UK Users Of Social Media Platforms
My recent article about the true size of social media platforms has prompted a lot of people to examine how many real people are followers or friends, and there has been some interesting additional...
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Is Skype A Social Network?
Surely Microsoft's Skype should be counted as a social network. It fulfills many of the same functions that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.You can set a status 'mood' message, you can text message,...
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Can Social Media Reveal Your 'Trustworthiness'?
As more and more services focus on the arbitrage of consumer-to-consumer transactions and rentals, the problem of trusting a stranger becomes a significant drag on success.
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The Reverse Hockey-Stick Slide For Newspapers -The Media Disruption Is Far...
There seems to be a perception that much of the disruption in the media sector has been done and that we are now at a (lower) plateau of some kind and that a recovery in the industry's fortunes is...
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Nielsen: 'Social Ads' Are Better Recalled
There's advantages to showing advertisements recommended by a person's friends, says Nielsen in a study of 79 Facebook campaigns over a six month period.
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SF PR Firm LaunchSquad Launches Premium Content Company
I like San Francisco based PR firm LaunchSquad because they tend to be a little bit ahead of the pack. This week it launched Original9 Media, a company combining content creation with online marketing.
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Facebook Woos Wall Street - It Just Added 25 Banks - GOOG Shunned Wall Street...
Facebook has added 25 banks to its IPO offering — a massive expansion from the original six banks named. It allows the banks offer Facebook stock to their clients in special deals and spreads a lot of...
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