If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you’ll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major...
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Tech Crunch: Playfish: Using Facebook As Its Gaming Console
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StarF*#ked. (or, how not to handle forgotten password recovery flow during a massive promotion)
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StarFUCKs.Originally uploaded by davemc500hats to whomever can promise i never have to enter forgotten password flow ever again: PLEASE ENSLAVE ME NOW. (screen...
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One to Watch: Episodic
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Episodic, a startup we’ve been eagerly anticipating, took the wraps off its service today in order to launch a feature for content creators to create their own...
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New Video Analytics Startup to Watch
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Tracking trends and the rising stars in the world of web video is our job here, so we love tools that help us do it. A new entrant in this space is Video Breakouts, which...
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Under The Radar: Tue 6/3, Mountain View
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If you're in Silicon Valley tomorrow (tue 6/3), check out the Under The Radar Social Media & Entertainment conf (sched). I'll be a judge & panelist for 2 startup...
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Transitions [A VC]
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The word transition is so loaded that I hate to use it. But it is what it is. Startups go through transitions all the time. And the biggest transitions of them all are...
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Joost Goes to China
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Joost launches a Chinese version today as a joint venture with TOM Online, the Chinese media conglomerate that’s majority-owned by Joost investor Li Ka-shing. TOM...
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Quick Hits with Venture Capitalist Bill Bryant, Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson [Xconomy Venture Capital Feed]
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VC, Entrepreneurship, deals Gregory T. Huang wrote: Bill Bryant is one of the best-known venture capitalists on the local scene. As a tech entrepreneur and angel...
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GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog - The Beginning Of The Blog Rollup?
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Blogging network GigaOm will announce the acquisition of the small but excellent mobile-focused blog jkOnTheRun this evening. Founders James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel will...
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The Bit.ly Interview: "No Comment" on Twitter URL Switch and Yes, They Have a Business Plan
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This morning I headed down to the Apple Soho neighborhood to meet with the team at Betaworks. I wanted to find out more about the URL shortener that's apparently a tech...
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AppNite Geek Discount for Graphing Social Patterns East (DC, 6/9-11)
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Graphing Social Patterns East is almost upon us -- my conference on social networks & platforms is just one week away, beginning Mon June 9th thru Wed June 11th...
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Genzyme Pursues Multiple Sclerosis Market, Biogen Reports Progress in Same, BG Medicine Swallows $40 Million Cash Bolus, & More Life Sciences News [Xconomy Venture Capital Feed]
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Roundup, Life Sciences, Alliances Rebecca Zacks wrote: Lots of news from the bigger players (think Genzyme and Biogen Idec) in the Boston-area life sciences...
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5 Things That Keep Me Awake At Night
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Experienced entrepreneurs (who have “been there, done that”) often ask the question, “So, what keeps you up at night?” Short answer: My kids. And...
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How Kosmix employs enterprise 2.0; a guide for other startups
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Anand Rajaraman, co-founder of Lightspeed portfolio company Kosmix, posts about how to stop email overload and break silos using wikis, blogs, and IM. We hit the email...
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Google App Engine: A Glimpse of Things to Come
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This is a guest post written by Waleed Abdulla, a software engineer and the founder and CEO of Ninua, Inc. You can follow his projects on his blog at selfdebugging.com. ...
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Startup Communities and Startup Failure
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I’ve got two critically important articles to point your attention to today - on startup communities and startup failure. Jevon MacDonald talks about how startups...
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SnagFilms: Best Thing for Docs Since Netflix
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This post was written by Jeffrey MacIntyre. Last week’s splashy entry into the online video arena of SnagFilms, a widget platform for watching and sharing...
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Startup Tips: How I grew a waiting list of 20,000+ at Mint.com Part I
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Recently I got a question asking “i was curious what methods you used to build a 20k pre-beta email list, and what were the conversion rates for those...
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Meetup - The Original Web Meets World Company [Union Square Ventures: A New York Venture Capital Fund Focused on Early Stage & Startup Investing]
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Something is changing on the web. We have lost some of the giddy enthusiasm that has surrounded the web since 2004. It was then that Tim O’Reilly defined Web 2.0 as a...
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Locify Streamlines Your Geo-Aware Lifestyle (The Startup Review)
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Editor’s Note: This post is part of an ongoing series at Mashable - The Startup Review, Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Startup Essentials. If you would like to have...