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Why I'm leaving Forrester
via Groundswell by Charlene Li on July 02, 2008
by Charlene LiI was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received -- and it wasto plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because researchshowed that people typically master a job in that time period and fall into aroutine. It's a testament to Forrester that I've been happilyemployed at the company for over nine years (that's 36 Internet yearsor 63 dog years). I have...
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Is LinkedIn Worth $1 Billion?
via GigaOM by Om Malik on June 18, 2008
LinkedIn Mountain View, California LinkedIn is an online network of more than 20 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries. Funding: $80 million from Bain Capital, Sequoia Capital, the European Founders Fund, Greylock, & Bessemer Ventures at a valuation of $1 billion. Co-Founder, Chairman and President,...
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LinkedIn Closes Its Round; Got That Billion Dollar Valuation
via TechCrunch by Mark Hendrickson on June 18, 2008
LinkedIn has raised $53 million from Bain Capital Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, and Bessemer Ventures. The investment values the business social network at just over $1 billion.We reported in early May that Allen & Co was out trying to pitch LinkedIn at that valuation. It turns out the company was not actually working with any bank to get this deal, but it still got a 10-figure...
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Technorati Launches Blog Ad Network, Technorati Media
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on June 17, 2008
Shared by Nico ad networks sind die neue heisse scheisse du jour.Blog-focused advertising networks are all the rage right now, with both Federated Media and Glam pulling down big valuation financing rounds in the last few months based very early growth metrics. Other startups, like Six Apart, have launched their own blog advertising networks as well.As we predicted, Technorati now joins them...
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Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on June 17, 2008
Photo sharing site Flickr is one of the leading lights of Yahoo - but cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won’t be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.Fake officially left last Friday. Butterfield (who still officially runs Flickr) will leave on July 12. Kakul Srivastava, the...
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Facebook Is Blocking Ads From MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut . . . and 3Jam?
via TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld on June 04, 2008
If you try to buy an ad on Facebook, there are certain words that are taboo. Any ads that contain four-letter words are automatically blocked. So too are ads with the names of competing social networks “MySpace,” “Friendster,” “Hi5,” , or “Orkut.” (Curiously, “Bebo” and “OpenSocial” go through just fine, as does “Microsoft,” “Yahoo,” “Google,” and...
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Plurk: Unique or Just Another Twitter Clone?
via ReadWriteWeb by Guest Author on June 03, 2008
Plurk, the latest lifestreaming service to make the rounds, certainly has one thing going for it - a sense of humor, albeit an odd one. The site is currently riding a wave of new registrations due to a mention from Leo Laporte, but is it worth your time or is it just another Twitter clone with a prettier UI?This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked...
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Billboards with facial-recognition software trickling out
via Engadget by Nilay Patel on June 03, 2008
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsPutting cameras in billboards to measure how many people look at them isn't a new idea, but it's starting to get a little more creepily-high-tech, with several advertisers now using facial-recognition software to record things like age and gender. A company called Quividi has supplied camera-equipped ads to McDonald's in Singapore and Ikea in Europe, and...
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Scribd Introduces Effortless Email Attachment Viewing
via TechCrunch by Jason Kincaid on June 03, 2008
Scribd is launching iPaper@Scribd today, a new feature that lets users convert outgoing email attachments to the company’s iPaper format. Documents in iPaper can be viewed in any browser that supports Flash, which should mitigate the inevitable headaches associated with getting email attachments to work properly.The system is remarkably simple: CC ipaper@scribd.com on your outgoing email...
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Use Your Mobile Phone to Stay Organized On the Go
via Stepcase Lifehack by Dustin Wax on May 27, 2008
Like my geek ancestors before me, I am deeply devoted to my Moleskine notebook. I keep one in my backpack or in my back pocket at all times, with a range of suitable pens that make writing a joy (I’m a fan of the fine-tipped pigment pens favored by illustrators). For quick notes and thinking time, there’s nothing better.But I’m also a big fan of doing things efficiently, which means not...
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