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Clubhouse put a big bullseye on social audio

VC Cafe

The early buzz of Clubhouse (despite being invite-only and iOS having a total reach of about 2 million users) along with the rising popularity of podcasts has shown that consumers crave social audio interactions and that there’s plenty of room for innovation in the space. Similar to Saga , a family-focused audio social network.

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[Review] Optimize

YoungUpstarts

Social listening tools like Radian6, Google Alerts, and Trackur may also help you to learn what’s buzzing on social networks. Use social networks to engage with community. Here are several steps to do so: a) Build Social Communities. Consider too the unique characteristics of each social network.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. Allocate about 20% of of your ad space to CPA-based Ad Networks.

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Bye, Bye Waterfall: 5 Steps to Implement Responsive Web Design

www.readwriteweb.com

In the waterfall process, wireframes are built and consist primarily of layouts and widgets. You’ll need to design widgets for different views, and not think of a page as a "page." To make better use of allotted project time and resources, design should include a few layouts and widgets at different sizes. social media.

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Monetizing Groupthink – Interview with Israel’s Gift Project

VC Cafe

The company has created a plug-in which displays a Group Gifting widget on e-retailers’ product pages. Now, when your friend’s birthday comes round, one person can identify a gift, click on the product page’s Group Gifting widget, and invite a group of friends via social networks to contribute to paying for the gift online.

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Face.com Gets $4.3 Million from Russian Yandex and Rhodium

VC Cafe

Tag photos with your facebook or twitter friends- The Tagger app uses the face.com tagging widget to add a face tagging interface on top of any image in the page. The tagging widget uses faces.detect to automatically place tags on people's faces, and allows users to add names.

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Tool and resource list for new founders

The Startup Toolkit

Intercom – tasteful chat and help widgets for your site, plus good automated email triggers. Drip – email courses and signup widgets for your site. Mailchimp – newsletters and decent signup widgets. AngelList – social network and funding platform for startups and angels. Team collaboration.