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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also. Specifically we encouraged vertical applications like financial services and healthcare. Tags: Social Media Tech Market Analysis. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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Why Consumer Brands Need To Keep An Eye On Their eCommerce Channel

YoungUpstarts

This is done by aggregating data on an enormous scale and leveraging highly advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to analyze the data and generate actionable insights on their competitors and their eCommerce channel. With these insights, brands can understand the marketplace better, improve their strategy and increase their sales.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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I used these boxes to imagine what existing film, tv, radio & print media companies did in each of these areas. Were they vertically integrated ? Where do the new entrants like YouTube, Pandora, iTunes, Huffington Post, Boxee, Netflix, Demand Media and other disruptive offerings fit into that equation and how is it changing?

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

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He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. It has become a short form premium destination that is verticalizing content in category channels. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Social, Facebook, and Twitter referral is meaningful. 37:00-40:30).

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The Creator Economy – Who are they, what do they do and How do they make money?

VC Cafe

Here are a few of the directories aggregating the emerging tools for creators: On the platform side, in the past, a few large platforms like Youtube, Instagram, Tiktok were the core distribution mechanism for creators. Now they are diversifying to more vertical, specialised platforms tailored to their needs.

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

www.pakman.com

In the case of social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr, the root activity on the site is the sharing of content. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others.