Tech and Entrepreneurs: Changing of the Guard
By Azam on October 12, 2011 Add a CommentVenture Capital was a small world in the earlier period of venture funding. Large families like Rockefellers started their private funds through into highly risky ventures. The East coast and Boston was the center of venture investing largely Boston area…
Continue Reading...On the Right Path
By Azam on April 4, 2011 Add a Comment 
Path is the new social networking tool being developed by Dave Morin the ex facebooker focusing on real friends. Path is available as an iPhone app, and if focusing on sharing photos. Path is focused on the closest 50 friends…
Adding some Color to Social Networking
By Azam on March 28, 2011 Add a Comment
Color is the new 41M startup from the maker of lala and onebox Bill Nguyen. The new idea by Nguyen allows users to share pictures automatically based on their location on smartphones. Color is based around the idea of spontaneous communities forming…
Continue Reading...NYT: Four Nerds and a Cry to Arms Against Facebook
By Azam on May 12, 2010 Add a Comment 
David Goldman for The New York Times
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 20, far left; Dan Grippi, 21; Max Salzberg, 22; and Raphael Sofaer, 19, all students at N.Y.U., are trying to reinvent social networking online.
By JIM DWYER
Published: May 11, 2010
NYT Link below…
Continue Reading...Lithium Buy Scout Labs for 25M to Expand in Social Networking Disscussion Forum Groups
By Azam on May 10, 2010 Add a Comment 
Lithium provides companies with on demand community forums used for customer service, social networking and related functions.
The Emeryville company, which provides on-demand online forums for purposes ranging from customer service to discussion groups, and development of richer features for its…
Continue Reading...Facebook is Growing Like Crazy
By Azam on December 22, 2008 Add a Comment 
Facebook is putting interesting stats on growth and number related toactive users 140M and 52,000 applications on the facebook platform. Much other growth is coming from overseas with 70% of the users outside of the US. Facebook is currently adding between…
Continue Reading...The Election Campaign goes Interactive with Web 2.0
By Azam on November 5, 2008 Add a Comment 
This elections season will go down in history as the first election that utilized the power and influence the Internet to a new level and to a real advantage. John F Kennedy was the first President that campaigned as the…
Continue Reading...Yahoo is SpotM in India
By Azam on September 19, 2008 Add a Comment 
SpotM is Yahoo India social network with interesting features for the Indian market. SpotM will target the 16-24 the college going age bracket in an attempt to capture the growing market in India. Google and Facebook have been increasing their share…
Continue Reading...LiveBar Bringing Some Social Networking to Any Site or Web Page
By Azam on September 16, 2008 1 Comment
The LiveBar consists of a thin strip “social tool bar” that sticks to the bottom of the browser window and displays social content related to the page. Live Bar is a widget-like site addition that brings social networking community features to any…
Continue Reading...LinkedIn Ad Network based on a Real High Margin Demographic
By Azam on September 15, 2008 Add a Comment
LinkedIn is the social network for professionals. The number shows the demographic of users are lucrative segmentation of high salary 100k professionals. LinkedIn is an ingenious way to promote yourself and network online with similar professionals. The site acts as an…
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