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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me. What We Saw in 2011…. The list of applications to engage, empower and organize citizens continues to grow, and will be one of the most defining legacies of 2011.

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The End Of Marketing As We Know It

YoungUpstarts

Instead, buyers are checking out product and service information in their own way, often through the Internet, their social network, or just plain word-of-mouth or customer reviews. It’s a myth that social networks and their technologies are creating new approaches to marketing. One is known as ‘Mr.

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

In addition to that, RIM has had several Developer Day programs in various countries, to reach out directly to developers. BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 will be held in Bangkok, Thailand this year. Top five categories over the last two years: 1) Games; 2) Utilities; 3) Themes; 4) Entertainment; 5) IM & Social Networking.

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2012 Will Be The Year Of The Empowered Merchant, says Schedulicty

YoungUpstarts

Here are his small business predictions for 2012: 2011 was the “Year of the Daily Deal”; 2012 will be the “ Year of the Empowered Merchant ”. There will be an increase of frequent buyer and perk programs to support this movement. million media tablets will have shipped in 2011.

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4 Definitive Ways To Deal With Outages

YoungUpstarts

When Bebo, the UK social network went down in 2012, users flocked to Twitter to complain. In what is arguably the most massive security breach in history, hackers stole credit card and personal information from 77 million PlayStation users in mid-April 2011. Bebo – Use a banner ad to let everyone know. A banner ad.

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Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Check Out Stanzr

ReadWriteStart

We did a cobranded social chat event on Tuesday that gave us an opportunity to actually test ride the Stanzr product. We invited entrepreneurs considering joining the 1M/1M premium program to the Stanzr chat room and did a one-hour Q&A session. We thought it was very cool! Thursday, November 17, Register Here.

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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.