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4 Reasons Gen Z Will Rule The Tech World By 2020

YoungUpstarts

Generation Z, much like their parents, Generation X, still doesn’t have an appropriate “name” like Millennials or Baby Boomers. Surprisingly, 42% of Gen Z claims that social media directly influences how they feel about themselves and how they see the world. Going mobile. The growth of on-demand economy.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company.

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external). Hipchat – Intra-company chat with history (+mobile).

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. Just ask MySpace.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

, but the evidence would suggest that repositioning the company as social enterprise software was a master stroke. Within days of the launch of the Facebook Platform, Buddy Media launched 7 applications that have been highlighted in the application directory, added by more than 300,000 Facebook users and accessed by millions of others.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. Of course, this draconian measure does not work; employees can blog under another name, or contribute to a wiki pseudonymously. Varieties of Social Networking: FaceBook, LinkedIn.

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APPNATION SF 2011 was fun

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

website asking for women mobile developers to apply to win 1 of 5 free conference passes and a demo pedestal for APPNATION SF. I couldn’t resist, so I put my name in the hat. I saw a posting on the Women 2.0 I had won. Congratulations to them.