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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Americas new business model: Sharing. Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Game Hunters.

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Panels Not to Miss at SXSW

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– Would love to see revenue/business models re-enter the social media conversation. And interested to hear her insights on being publicly private in social networks. It’s the perfect way to kick off your SXSW adventure. Do Cool Kids Leave When the Suits Arrive? We’re not earning money with our smiles. -

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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I’m sure the head of the Federal Reserve Bank could spook the market or the heads of state of the US, China or Iran could. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. That’s the beauty of markets and of capitalism.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Twitter’s significance stems from the fact that it is a real time, open, asymmetric, social, viral referral network that is often location aware and provides both explicit and implicit interests and preferences. Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia.

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