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My Life As A CEO (And VC): Chief Psychologist

BY:jimboze 2 hours 8 minutes ago on News      

This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French services company. He founded his second company in Palo Alto in 2005 and sold this company to Salesforce.com, becoming VP Product Management. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a Gen  Read More

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Recommendations Working Like A Charm: Twitter Follower Growth Is Accelerating

BY:jimboze 14 hours ago on News      

It's been about a month since Twitter turned on its people recommendation engine, a set of algorithms that enables the service to automagically suggest people you don’t currently follow but may find interesting. Twitter has indicated that these suggestions are based on a variety of factors, including the people you already follow and the people they follow. They are, for now, only visible on Twit  Read More

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The Attack Of Branded Content: Who Will Control TV On The Web? (TCTV)

BY:jimboze 14 hours ago on News      

I've got to admit, the concept of "branded content" on the Web makes me cringe. It is generally used to refer to Web videos created and packaged specifically for an advertiser. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but I like my videos created for the audience first, not advertisers. And yet, in the budding Web video industry, branded content is bringing in some serious dollars and even some serious talen  Read More

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Insurgents continue Iraq attacks

BY:jimboze 17 hours ago on News      

A string of bombings and shootings across Baghdad Monday left at least one Iraqi military officer dead and wounded more than a dozen civilians and soldiers, an Interior Ministry official said Monday.  Read More

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As It Moves Away From The Wikis, Wetpaint Launches TV News And Entertainment Site

BY:jimboze 1 day 2 hours 8 minutes ago on News      

Online publishing company Wetpaint has been undergoing a strategic shift in its business model over the past year. Wetpaint began as a simple wiki/social publishing tool but then started to build entertainment sites for big brands, including MSN. And the heavily funded startup succumbed to layoffs last July and December. But today, Wetpaint is taking the company in a new direction: original cont  Read More

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Unknown missing after Congo boat fire

BY:jimboze 1 day 5 hours ago on News      

A cargo vessel caught fire and capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, leaving an unknown number of people missing, a government spokesman said Sunday.  Read More

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Lanyrd – Plancast Meets Upcoming For Conferences

BY:jimboze 1 day 14 hours ago on News      

Look out Plancast and Upcoming, here comes Lanyrd. Ok, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but if it's possible to have a SXSW "tipping point" at an event then Lanyrd just had it at dConstruct, a popular design and developer conference in the UK.So what is it? The guys behind Lanyrd say they are not trying to build a general purpose events site but instead they are just interested in conferences  Read More

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Netanyahu eyes regular Abbas talks

BY:jimboze 1 day 17 hours ago on News      

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas one-on-one every two weeks to discuss "the agenda for a peace agreement," he said Sunday.  Read More

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Crash survivors back trapped miners

BY:jimboze 1 day 21 hours ago on News      

Four Uruguayan rugby players, whose plane crashed in the Andes Mountains 38 years ago, urge the 33 trapped Chilean miners not to "give up" during a visit to the mine.  Read More

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Inside Facebook Seattle [Pictures]

BY:jimboze 2 days ago on News      

A couple weeks ago, Facebook officially opened their new office in Seattle, WA. At the time, Facebook's Ari Steinberg (the main engineer in charge up there) wrote a post and shared a few pictures of what it looks like. But those pictures sort of made it look like a dismal, dreary version of Office Space (I know Seattle is cloudy all the time, but come on). So we've got a few better ones that show  Read More

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Arrests made at Tony Blair booksigning

BY:jimboze 2 days ago on News      

Police made a "small number" of arrests in Dublin where former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was due to sign copies of his autobiography Saturday, a spokesman for Ireland's national police service said.  Read More

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Protests target 'discriminatory' Sarkozy plan

BY:jimboze 2 days ago on News      

Protests are planned across France against President Nicolas Sarkozy's anti-crime plans, which organizers say are "strategies of stigma and discrimination."  Read More

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Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down

BY:jimboze 3 days ago on News      

Bad news for Craigslist users who like to peruse the Erotic Services Adult Services section of their site. It's gone, replaced by a large black and white "censored" logo.I've reached out to Craigslist for comment and await their reply. But the choice of words is significant - the section wasn't simply removed, the censored word was used. The site has been embattled as old press and state attorney  Read More

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How Irrational Uncertainty is Paralyzing Small Business

BY:jimboze 3 days ago on Business      

In the current climate, uncertainty has become an overriding issue.  Read More

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Strong quake strikes near major New Zealand city

BY:jimboze 3 days ago on News      

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck New Zealand on Saturday caused "a lot of damage," but there are no reports of serious injuries, an emergency official says.  Read More

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