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First Myspace, Facebook, now Google is set to announce "Friend Connect"

by Russ Whitman, May 10, 2008 | Comments (0)

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One of the big bugaboos with social networking sites has been the difficulty getting your data out and into another site. That's all changing now that the big 3 (not Ford, Chevy and Chrysler, but Google, MySpace and Facebook) have announced within a week of each other new services to give users the ability to "control" their data. Friend Connect, which is expected to launch Monday, "will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information ...

Social Web sites are the next sitcoms

by Russ Whitman, May 6, 2008 | Comments (0)

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Yesterday I read a great post that made connections between historical disruptive periods and the social web and took a look at both the driving force and transforming period before the force developed significant value. Its definitely worth a read, but in summary, Clay Shirky describes the period of transformation from rural life to urban during the industrial revolution and the collective struggle. He states that it wasn't until the creation of key public services, museums, libraries and expanded education ...

Being Green Has Never Been So.... Funded

by Russ Whitman, May 1, 2008 | Comments (0)

Today Kleiner Perkins, the venerable Siclion Valley VC announed 2 new funds totaling $1.2 Billion - with $700 million going into a new fund KPCB XIII, which will invest in “greentech, information technology and life sciences ventures.” This and another $500 million Green Growth Fund that is going to be working with none other than Al Gore in his mission to stop global warming show something that is not just a trend but a viable business and investment strategy. Obviously investment ...

Morgan Stanley report on the social Web

by Russ Whitman, April 28, 2008 | Comments (2)

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Morgan Stanley released a report on Internet Trends on March 18th. The news shouldn't surprise you much if you are a follower and believer in the Social Web. But it is great validation. There are some really interesting highlights (as noted by Michael Arrington of Techcrunch) - YouTube + Facebook page views > Google or Yahoo page views (and may be bigger than both combined) - 6/10 top internet sites are social (youtube, live.com, facebook, hi5, wikipedia, orkut); none were on ...

Startup 2.0, Examination of the Transformation

by Russ Whitman, April 16, 2008 | Comments (0)

Part 1: When did this begin? At what point did the shift occur? Does it matter?No, it only matters that we recognize it, try to understand the transformation and to see where it's going. What am I talking about? I'm talking about the new garage startup, call it Startup 2.0 (or 3.0, 7.0, the number doesn't really matter just the recognition that its all changed), where companies/products/services are built in weekends, brands are built through social networks, viral isn't enough, software is ...

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