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Great article I came across on Facebook, I have to copy it in its entirety for two reasons.
1. I found it on a site that you need to register to get it
2. The reproduction rights found on the bottom of the article.
I hope you guys found it as interesting as I do.
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Stephen Downes
Facebook was launched [...]

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It’s pouring rain outside. I am standing at a bar in Charlottesville, Va., having just ordered a round of beers for me and three of my new friends. As I wait for the bartender to pour the drinks I look over my left shoulder and see a person dressed in a gorilla suit. Over my [...]

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There are many fantasies about entrepreneurial life in Northern California, but here’s one extreme version: You reside in a vast and fabulous spread in the hills of Marin County. Your commute amounts to a stroll through your backyard, which offers a staggering view that extends across Mill Valley and San Francisco Bay to the city [...]

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Day two opened up this morning with the Effectively Leveraging Social Networking panel, featuring: Dave McClure, Entrepreneur & Startup Advisor, 500Hats Cindy Krum, Senior SEO Analyst, Blue Moon Works Helen M. Overland, Director, Search Engine Marketing, non-linear creations Additional live blogging coverage on this panel is available on Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable and [...]

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From a blog about a stained blue dress to the day Larry met Sergey, these are the pivotal moments that made the Web what it is today.

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UNC senior and entrepreneur Allison Badea is putting a new spin on old pictures with her photo-altering business, Mugshot. For $6, Badea will use several color and visual effect techniques to spice up students’ head shots, making photos fit for profiles on Facebook.com.

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Graphing Social Patterns, http://graphingsocial.com, will host Silicon Valley VCs, marketers, and developers as they look to the “Social Graph” for innovation and customers. Created for business and marketing executives as well as technical developers, the event will be held in San Jose on October 7-9 at the Holiday Inn, 1740 North First Street in San [...]

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While true intelligence might be the ability to process competing thoughts simultaneously and still function, the smartest way for entrepreneurs to build multiple businesses is to focus on one company at a time.

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A Peruvian widow borrowed $64 and bought a few pigs. For $55, a villager in Ghana went into the mineral-water trade. A mother of nine in Guatemala upgraded her grocery store with $250. These women from three continents have something in common: They are…

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Figuring out how to sort through personal profile pages to target ads has become a top priority for both MySpace and Facebook. But in the new California gold rush to turn valuable information that people reveal about themselves into advertising dollars, lesser-known social networking sites are getting left behind.

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