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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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Episode 92: Educational and Galactic Profitability with Dr. Zarik Boghossian

Mike Michalowicz

Today Dr.Zarik Boghossian shares his personal story of being born in Iran and moving to the US, the hardships he faced because of his accent, having no money and how he moved on to successfully develop a software that does the flight navigation for the international space station. Also Available On. Show Summary. Zarik holds a B.S.

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The Internet Might Kill Us All

Steve Blank

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. While most of the social networks, cloud computing, web and mobile app companies we see today will fail, a few will literally remake our lives.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

Viber is currently blocked or disrupted by Iran and Vodafone. I realize it’s important to be cross-platform, but wouldn’t it have been more beneficial for Viber to focus on a select few mobile operating systems and making sure the feature sets were consistent? Do you know if and where Viber is currently being blocked?

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Asymmetric – Before Twitter most social networks had “symmetric” relationships meaning that when somebody wanted to follow you, you had to follow them back in order for us to be connected. Not so on Twitter.

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Is social media good or bad for us? Yes.

Reid Hoffman

Caught in between, social media companies try to constructively engage with both the “right” and the “left” domestically while rooting out foreign influences from antagonistic nations like Russia and Iran. Our polarized environment encourages — and amplifies — partisan conflicts, and this inhibits social progress.