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Austin Ventures has bet $50 million on top Razorfish executive Jeffrey Dachis to create a social networking platform for corporation. Great opportunity to learn from other social media start-ups about what works and what doesn’t… and do it right.
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Good chart from Forrester: 83% trust the word of a friend. 60% trust consumer reviews by people they never met on a retailer’s site, only slightly lower than “a review by a known expert.” 30% trust online review by a blogger, unknown I assume.
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The inventors of the web predict its future (And, Gore is not on the list:) — a lot of mentions of semantic web in their essays.
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Twitter as of March 2008: total users: 1+ million; total active users: 200,000 per week; total twitter messages: 3 million/day. Twitter is growing fast, but these are still the numbers of a highly-efficient community for technology-oriented folks.
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I always enjoy Mary Meeker and her teams’ presentations on Internet Trends. This is the “money slide” from the March 2008 update — “Connectivity Changing — Is E-Mail Becoming Archaic?”
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This is thought provoking — now you can start your own YouTube. Unfortunately, it will be a while before you attract 250mm users.
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I met the CEO of Ripple6 - Sang Kim. They have an interesting social network building technology for major brands and (now) media. It’s worth a peak.
30 April 2008
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