paidcontent.org - 5/15/2009
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The list of social media properties Baseline Ventures' Ron Conway has backed includes Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Seesmic ... and it goes on and on. So he should have a slew of Facebook friends and Twitter followers (especially entrepreneurs that are hungry for VC), right? Not at all.
Conway ...
allfacebook.com - 5/15/2009
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allfacebook.com —
Want to call your Facebook friends via video
chat? Soon enough you’ll be able to. Earlier today...
one of our readers sent us a link to one of Facebook’s cached JavaScript files which reveals a number of clues as to a soon to be released ...
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Facebook Prepares To Launch Live Video Chat Product
blogmaverick.com - 5/16/2009
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blogmaverick.com —
Last year I wrote a blog post entitled
“If the news is important it will find me”....
The point was that we all live in so many social networks, that someone will send us an update if something in the world happens that we would be interested ...
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How Twitter and Facebook Now Compete with Google
insidefacebook.com - 5/14/2009
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insidefacebook.com —
Over the last couple of days, rumors have
been swirling about a possible Facebook Platform payments system...
launching over the course of the next few weeks. Tonight, we have confirmation from Facebook that while it isn’t planning on launching a ...
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Confirmed: Facebook to Launch Virtual Currency Test in ...
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... Twitter and Facebook investor Ron Conway doesn’t use either service — “I advise them and add value,” he said today at the EconSM conference. “I don’t spend time using them.” ...
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