April 2012
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Apr 11th
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The geniuses (literally) at Daily Show weigh in on Google glasses and the FB purchase of Instagram. *Jon’s tip about wearing Google glasses in NYC is pretty spot on.
Apr 11th
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The Google+ Makeover →
via Google Blog
Apr 11th
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via Ogilvy The Ogilvy Branded Entertainment Assessment Model
Apr 11th
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Read Write Web Recommends Yap.TV for Second Screep... →
via RWW by John Paul Titlow One of the better apps of this type is yap.TV. The 19-month-old startup aims to serve as a sort of TV Guide of the future, offering an hourly lineup of television shows but with a ton of interactivity built on top of it.
Apr 11th
Apr 11th
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5 Things the Experts Say You Need to Know About... →
via ReadWriteWeb by Dave Copeland Great overview.
Apr 10th
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Tech Crunch Weighs in on WFIO Moments for Startups... →
via Tech Crunch and Leena Rao Great read on the philosophy of the entrepreneur and VC relationship. 
Apr 10th
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Anne-Marie Roussel's Social TV Funding Matrix... →
via Anne-Marie Roussel Anne-Marie and her blog are a deep resource for data and projections on the big picture in Social TV.
Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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MLB Network Launching Strike Zone Channel (similar... →
via Sports Business Daily by John Ourand MLB is launching a new cable channel tonight at 7:00pm ET called MLB Network Strike Zone, which is patterned after the NFL’s successful NFL RedZone Channel. The channel already has signed affiliate deals with Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, DirecTV and Dish Network. The channel will operate on Tuesday and Friday nights during the season,...
Apr 10th
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The Trendrr.TV March White Paper has some great Social TV data.
Apr 10th
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Mike Proulx, Author of the First Book on Social... →
via Harmonic Aftershock and Mike Proulx I always enjoy listening to Mike speak about Social TV, and while I haven’t gotten to the book myself yet, I truly enjoyed reading this personal blog post about the positive effect of Don Harley, a college advisor at the University of New Hampshire.  “It has been said that there are four kinds of educators: Those who see students as widgets passing...
Apr 10th
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Netflix Explains Original Content Strategy →
via The Hollywood Reporter
Apr 10th
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Twitter Open Sources its MySQL Secret Sauce →
via GigaOM Used by millions of web developers, MySQL is hugely popular; it’s the “M” in the LAMP stack that still underpins many web applications. But it has its problems, among them scalability and performance under the pressure of high transaction rates. This is part of the reason that NoSQL databases came into existence and continue to flourish. So, for anyone concerned with making MySQL...
Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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CNN / Money's Take on Social TV and the "Second... →
via CNNMoney and Julianne Pepitone The startup surge: When Silicon Valley detects a new trend, it flings hundreds of startups into the field to map out the terrain. Right now, we’re in the “experimentation” phase, with a swarm of companies trying out different approaches to see what sticks.
Apr 9th
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KABC LA Leads Local Stations in Social TV... →
via Lost Remote and Cory Bergman
Apr 9th