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Clever: Facebook Funds A Privacy Watchdog Group
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 16 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Smart move: Thanks to a legal settlement finalized today, many of the privacy watchdogs watching Facebook will soon seek funding from Facebook. Remember how, in 2007, Facebook got in a hot mess when it launched a product called Beacon? (That was the ad product, which, unless users opted out of it, b... (original story)
Every Startup Has Near-Death Experiences; Here's The Key To Surviving Them
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 16 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross knows a thing or two about startups, having founded about 75 of them. Being passionate and believing in what you are working on are crucial to overcoming the many bumps on the road a startup you're bound to hit, says Gross. Watch more advice for entrepreneurs bel... (original story)
Here Come The Chatroulette Clones
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 16 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
The first -- no doubt of many -- Chatroulette clones has launched: RandomDorm. Via the New York Times, RandomDorm takes an interesting approach to filtering out the perverts: It requires that users have a .edu email address. The idea, as the name suggests, is that this will be Chatroulette for the c... (original story)
Google Continues Testing New Design For Search Results Pages (GOOG)
Posted from Silicon Alley Insider 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Readers have recently sent in a few screenshots of the new search results design that Google is testing. This design includes the person's location -- though it's hard to tell if it's including the location in filtering yet. The big difference is the left-hand column that helps filter search results... (original story)
The Oracle Effect: Sun's Best and Brightest Move On to New Places
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
What is the effect of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems on cloud computing? Well, there have been quite a few if you look at where Sun's best and brightest have moved on to in the past few months. Tim Bray is the latest Sun star to move on. You may know Bray as the co-founder of XML. Eve ... (original story)
Whatever Happened to Web 2.0?
Posted from GigaOM 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Google Trends says that search volume for "social media" surpassed "Web 2.0" right in the middle of January this year, though the new hotness has yet to reach the heights of "Web 2.0" hit circa 2007. But what key changes marked a change in eras? (original story)
Twitter’s commercial accounts may finally land at Chirp conference next month
Posted from VentureBeat 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
Commercial accounts for businesses on Twitter may finally make their debut next month at the company’s inaugural developer conference Chirp. Anamitra Banerji is leading a session on commercial accounts in the afternoon at the conference. Last summer, co-founder Biz Stone told us that the compa... (original story)
An Experiment: Putting The Audience On Stage (For Real) At TechCrunch Disrupt
Posted from TechCrunch 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
There are good things about conferences and there are bad things about conferences. One of the bad things is how little the audience gets to participate directly in the content being created. Sometimes there's a question and answer period at the end of a panel where people line up at a microphone to... (original story)
Plastic Jungle Raises $7.4 Million for Gift Card Marketplace
Posted from TechCrunch 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Commentators
Plastic Jungle, a marketplace for gift cards, has secured $7.4 million in Series B funding, led by Redpoint Ventures with Shasta Ventures Bay Partners, First Round Capital and other investors participating. This brings the company's total funding to $13.4 million. Plastic Jungle lets you buy, se... (original story)
SXSW wrapup: Maybe it really does suck now
Posted from VentureBeat 18 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Venture Funding
San Franciscans complain that Burning Man used to be better. New Yorkers claim that everything used to be better. While it’s no surprise that some attendees of the annual South by Southwest Interactive conference this past week in Austin, Texas, deemed SXSW to be “over” compared to... (original story)
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