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Meet 6 women of color-led startups that pitched their businesses in Seattle

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. “Unfortunately, too many people have just not had exposure, or any reason to meet people outside of their network,” said Johnson, who began her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before founding IFEL with her father in 2002. Reetu Gupta.

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Openness, network effects, and competition in social networks - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.

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Lloyds TSB pilots social media - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

» Lloyds TSB pilots social media Ross Dawson, February 26, 2008 7:30 PM US PT James Gardner, head of innovation at Lloyds TSB, writes consistently on his blog Bankervision , disclosing some of the key issues involved in innovating in a major bank. Some excerpts from his below show how blogging can change how corporations work.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan. I see a parallel path to browser-based social networking. And it will help us meet new people for dating, business and friendship. Facebook dating status for a bar.

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Will Spotify crack open the all-you-can-eat music subscription model?

Trends in the Living Networks

In my 2002 book Living Networks I wrote: These twin powerful trends of greater access to content, and increased awareness of quality content, can result in greater revenue for these industries, but new business models are required. Several key factors are at play here: * Scope of music licensing. Downloads and portability.

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Social networks in organizations: balancing risk, reward, and transparency - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Free download of entire book » Social networks in organizations: balancing risk, reward, and transparency Ross Dawson, April 21, 2008 4:20 PM US PT A rather popular topic these days is the risks to organizations of using social networks. My Enterprise 2.0 Governance Framework explicitly addresses risks, benefits, and actions.

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Interview on MySpace and social media - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

I talked about how social media is unleashing our latent humanity, by providing us with new ways of interacting and relating. We are exploring and discovering who we become as individuals and a society through using the new tools of social media. MySpace is a specific manifestation of how young people’s attention is shifting.

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