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Bebo Is Forcibly Changing Usernames

Posted from Mashable! 17 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech

I first saw it over in a post by Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim, but in the post he lays the tracks to a whole epidemic of unauthorized name changes by top social networking service Bebo. It appears, at least from the mountain of bewildered queries on random web forums as well as Twitter that at l... (original story)

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Microsoft Ads: First Phase To “Engage Consumers, Spark Conversation”

Posted from TechCrunch 18 hours ago
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So the tech and geek crowd is a little underwhelmed by the new $300 million Microsoft advertising campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld that kicked off tonight. It's mostly content free, with just one mention of Microsoft near the end. It's a far cry from the brilliant Microsoft v. mac ads that Apple ha... (original story)

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The Seinfeld Ad Microsoft Paid Millions For: Pro and Con Opinions

Posted from ReadWriteWeb 18 hours ago
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Microsoft ran its first commercial with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld on NBC this afternoon, to mixed reviews. Seinfeld will reportedly take home $10 million for his part of the $300 million "Windows Not Walls" ad campaign. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/microsoft/The_Seinfeld_Ad_Microsoft_Paid_Mil... (original story)

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Office 2.0 Day 1 Recap

Posted from ReadWriteWeb 18 hours ago
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I'm at the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, where day 1 has just concluded. As with all conferences, the most valuable parts have been the discussions outside of sessions. And I can tell you that the corridors have been humming here. The conference is a who's who of business-centric cloud com... (original story)

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Secretive Storage Company Dropbox Took Sequoia Funding in 2007

Posted from TechCrunch 18 hours ago
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Dropbox is one of those infuriating startups that just won't show us much of what they're up to beyond the basic user experience (see video). We first saw them at Y Combinator demo day in August 2007, and talked to them again in March when they went into private beta. It looks like Sequoia was on ... (original story)

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Facebook Live Feed a Killer? More Like a Hindrance

Posted from ReadWriteWeb 19 hours ago
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Recently, Facebook released a live feed feature for the homepage of Facebook users. This new feature allows you to see the latest updates by your Facebook friends in real-time. You could compare it to functionality that FriendFeed and Twitter already have with instant updates from any friend. Since... (original story)

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Wixi’s Media-Centric Social Webtop Launches To The Public

Posted from TechCrunch 19 hours ago
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Wixi, the social filesharing network that debuted at TechCrunch40, has finally been released to the public. The site offers a media-centric virtual desktop that allows users to play their media files from any computer that supports Flash, and also serves as a service for file sharing between frie... (original story)

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InterviewBest - Interview Presentations - DreamIT Funding Day

Posted from CenterNetworks - 19 hours ago
Start-up and Venture Capital : Web 2.0 Tech

InterviewBest is one of the DreamIT startup incubator companies. InterviewBest helps you created a printed, bound presentation to take with you to an interview. The idea is that the presentation is stronger than any resume and helps sell you better to the hiring manager. Since it will be left behin... (original story)

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Calacanis, Arrington Talk TechCrunch50 On TechTicker

Posted from TechCrunch 19 hours ago
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TechTicker's Sarah Lacy interviewed Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington about the upcoming TechCrunch50 conference. The first two segments are up. In the first segment, Lacy talks to the two about the origins of the conference and why they are so determined to end payola in tech events: "The conf... (original story)

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HiVision to ship $98 MiniNote laptop in October [One Laptop Per Child]

Posted from Valleywag 19 hours ago
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In the race to develop the first mass-producible laptop that costs less than $100 has apparently been won by Chinese company HiVision, which currently offers an adorable, pink, 7" MiniNote for $120... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (original story)

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