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Calling Vince Lombardi: Four Mega-Trends for 2011

Growthink Blog

When seeking breakout companies to back, here are four mega-trends for 2011: 1. Well, in 2011 look for “end of email” company movements to gain steam and social currency, and to – blasphemy of blasphemies – for articles to proliferate re social networking mainstays Facebook and Twitter having “jumped the shark.”

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 will be held in Bangkok, Thailand this year. Over 35,000 applications available on App World (Note: as you know, App World is just one distribution channel where customers can download applications). •

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

Last October, Buffer users across the world saw spam being posted to their social profiles. Their Happiness Heroes got into action in minutes, and posted real time updates on all of their official channels. When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. A banner ad.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Directtv went to urbanspoon to help ppl to find sports bars with premium sports channels. Zynga poker model- money going in and no money going out, reduces liability. 75k apps on ipad, price of ipad apps going up. A lot of women are spending more time on mobile, looking for restaurants, where to shop. 80-90% are free apps in app stores.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

May 7, 2011 03:05:36 Reply 0 Flag this comment jpp123 Follow A CTO needs to have vision of their own, not just share the company vision. May 7, 2011 03:24:52 Reply 0 Flag this comment LarryN1 Follow A good profile for most if not all hires. Was debating between two candidates. This article made my decision for me.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. The next event will be on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 8:00 AM (PDT), register to attend here.