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Jeff Smith: “Everything we do is a test”
Smule CEO Jeff Smith just wrapped up his keynote at VatorSplash, in which he discussed how his company, Read More
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Vator Splash Live Stream!
Tune in starting at 6:30 PM (PST) for a Livestream of tonight’s Vator Splash event in San Francisco Read More
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FarmVille now featured on MSN Games
If you thought FarmVille couldn’t get any bigger, think again. Zynga, creator of FarmVille and one of the Read More
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Cycling with Tim Hyer of Rentcycle
Just a few months ago, Rentcycle debuted its service at our last event. The startup launched a platform Read More
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Social media marketing part 2: Mediums
In Part One of our Social Media Marketing Series, we covered the fundamentals. What follows is a checklist Read More
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Blogging not so big with teenagers anymore
I guess blogs just aren’t cool anymore. According to a Pew Internet Project report released Wednesday, teens and Read More
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Rewards and monetization
I really like what Dennis Crowley, founder and CEO of Foursquare, said about “rewarding checkins” in this post Read More
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Twitter: Have a different password per site
On Tuesday night, after a long day of dealing with recent phishing attacks, Twitter posted a long message Read More
iChange, an online community focused on helping people make major life changes, has closed a round of funding Read More
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Ustream.tv seals $20M from Japanese telecom
Live Web and mobile streaming video service Ustream.tv has raised $20 million in Series B funding from SoftBank Read More
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Flook closes $1 million seed round
Flook, a location browsing app for the iPhone that we first profiled a couple weeks ago, has extended Read More
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Foursquare partners with Bravo TV
Location-based startup, Foursquare is definitely starting to step up its business plans. On Monday, the company announced a Read More
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Fring updates iPhone app with 3G VoIP support
Fring, a mobile Internet communications service and community, is now one of the earliest companies to bring Voice-over-IP Read More
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Baby boomers embrace social networking
We may now better understand how social sites like Facebook and Twitter grew so blisteringly fast last year: Read More