“If you honestly need someone to follow you or friend you on a social network to find self worth or acceptance, it’s really time to re-evaluate your priorities”.

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“A wave of Internet deals helped venture funding during the fourth quarter of 2010 reach a two-year high-water mark in both the number of deals and capital invested…”

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“Plan for the future, and consider the long-term opportunities before you”.

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“The notion that Facebook is not going to continue to be the only game in town may sound a little crazy given that their user base has exceeded 500 million”.

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“Mobile photo-sharing app Snapr plots uploaded photos on a map that other users can browse. Its new open API will allow other mobile photo app developers to add location-based features and real-time photo feeds to their own apps”.

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“For the third quarter in a row, Facebook’s home page loaded faster than that of any of the other major social networks. However, the site only comes in fourth place for availability”.

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“Analysts can derive actionable insights from data and feed those back to teams, and even IT can evolve their operations to support more fluid internal communication networks”.

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“For years, we’ve had mobile entertainment systems in our cars. What if, though, an accessories company makes a mount where your iPad can slip into it and be piped through your car’s audio system?”

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Great Reading: “It is early days for both secondary markets and venture backed exits to PE but both of these are positive trends”.

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In looking at which industries were talking the most about social media it came as no surprise to find the technology, communications and marketing fields in the top three.

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