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

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By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. The advent of GPS, the always-on Internet and social networks enable finding things in real time from people you somewhat trust.

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Where To Find The Most Angels To Fund Your Startup

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With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This is perhaps the most widely-used source of information on Angel investor groups across the world, run by the “Father of Angel Investing in New York,” David Rose. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum.

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Start Here if You are Looking for Angel Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This is perhaps the most widely-used source of information on Angel investor groups across the world, run by the “Father of Angel Investing in New York,” David Rose. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

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Huge media players such as New York Times and Thompson Reuters/Open Calais publish Linked Data. The Semantic Web is here and organizations such as the Drupal, New York Times, Best Buy, Thompson Reuters and even the US and UK government make part of this reality together with Google’s Rich Snippets and Yahoo’s Search Monkey.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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And noted New York angel Chris Dixon recently made the leap to the venture world. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising. As of today, Yammer has a new competitor.