Red Herring, the tech industry’s essential source for Silicon Valley venture capital news and buzz during the go-go ‘90s but since fallen on...

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Is Linkedin in play?  Most of the recent flurry of reporting about Facebook has focused on the impact that its wildly successful foray into the ...

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Now it can be told.  For the past few months, one of my favorite social software startups, Blogtronix, has been working with publishing giant Reut...

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Jigsaw is a fast-growing, controversial online marketplace that lets people trade their business contacts for more contacts or cash.  Co-fo...

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Let me give you the verdict first:  Ning is a game changer, as important to the mass adoption of social networking as Blogger and Wordpress ha...

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Way back on February 9, 2004, I wrote a famous (well, Doc Searls linked to it) post called The Internet Does Not Scale/The Internet Is Not R...

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For the past year and a half or so Connectbeam has been wandering in the wilderness telling anyone who will listen that social bookmarking was not simply popular applic...

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It’s a familiar story.  An occupying army is bogged down in hostile territory threatened on one side by a well-armed, well-financed insurgency an...

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When it comes to social networking, sites that target businesspeople are pretty small potatoes.  LinkedIn, the category leader, has 7.8 milli...

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Among the toughest tasks that marketers face daily is tracking what is being said about their company or its brands in the media, identifyi...

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