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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

YoungUpstarts

That obsession with food had inspired Jon Yongfook Cockle to put together, as a weekend hacking experiment , a website that does a take on content aggregation around food reviews. Prior to that, Yongfook founded and sold off his own recipe social network Open Source Food.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founding Date: 2009. How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. Revenue Growth: 2241% YoY (2010 vs 2009), 1357% YOY (Q1 2011 vs Q1 2010). Filing Date: initial filing June 2, 2011.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation. And there's DailyMotion , which is eating into YouTube's market share and had a 70% jump in US traffic in 2009. Plyce : Feature-rich location-based social network.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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4 Strategies for Managing Your Online Brand

ReadWriteStart

Representation is a large part of any social network, but some more than others.". In fact, ReadWriteWeb first wrote in 2008 about tools to monitor what's being said about you online and later in 2009 talked about the future of social media monitoring. Aggregate and curate to reinforce. Four key strategies.

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What Works With Twitter Today

Duct Tape Marketing

Just for fun have a look back at an eBook I wrote on Twitter in 2009 – Twitter for Business – lots of services no longer exist but the content is still mostly relevant.). Like most Internet tools and social networks things change and there are always new and better ways to use them meet your objectives.

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ProfessorVC: Are DEMO's days numbered?

Professor VC

Bump.com is a social network based on license plate numbers as the identifier. A check-in aggregation platform. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ► 2009. (7). Bump - These guys got my vote for the Peoples Choice. ▼ September. (2). ► July. (1).