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Is Silicon Valley Really Coming to an End?

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He didn’t mean to make a media storm out of it – it was a simple comment on his Facebook page. But then Marc Andreessen weighed in – as did I and several others – and the media picked up on his comments. Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source. ” My 3.5 Of course not.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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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.

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Solving for Banner Blindness. Solve Media.

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Solve Media is that. In the early days of the Internet as an advertising medium the industry organized to create “standard ad units&# for which most media companies would sell their inventory. So the debate in the print media world is whether or not to insert a paywall between users and content. But is there a better way?

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks.

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

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After seeing “The Social Network&# there is an increased attitude amongst this generation (of women) that … why not go into startups? Certainly if you look at eCommerce & social media – women are the ones using these products. Make sure they’re on your board, your board of advisors, whatever.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

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I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). But I made it for a reason. It kicked Google Video’s ass.