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What Impact Social Media Truly Had On Society

YoungUpstarts

Social media websites are some of the most popular haunts on the Internet. They have revolutionized the way people communicate and socialize on the Web. Iran, and India. Unfortunately, there are a few downsides too to social networking. Many companies perform a background check on the Internet before hiring an employee.

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

Un-Social Networking: Martin Lindstrom of Brand Sense says we are suffering a little from digital emptiness. People are doing small scale, networked and highly responsive activities. There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line….

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

Final le web london (june 2013) from Mark Suster. As I outlined in my talk, I believe the greatest Internet companies created over the past 15 years have been “deflationary” meaning they are driving down the prices or goods & services. Network Up. Prices down. But what else? Collaboration. How Will it Evolve?

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

www.usatoday.com

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. Julianna Iran, a tax consultant from Pasadena, Calif.,

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others.

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Panels Not to Miss at SXSW

Austin Startup

How Your Brand Can Succeed in the New Web – From a man who knows, Brian Solis. - And interested to hear her insights on being publicly private in social networks. The juxtaposition is glaring: old media or web pioneer? Monkeys with Internet Access because I’ve been wanting to hear Clay Shirky. Or privately public.

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Twitter, Jobs, Democracy & The US Elections

Both Sides of the Table

But something more nuanced is at hand that is worth debating – is the future of the Internet & global communications more open or more closed? As you become a large, open network for referral traffic your long-term strategic value goes up. As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. That’s the Google lesson.

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