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  • Pal Talk Office Tour

    Joel Smernoff, the President of Pal Talk, invited me to his office downtown on Wall Street. Paltalk is a live streaming company that has been around for over 10 years but has not been regarded as a competitor to Ustream, Justin.tv, Mogulus, Yahoo live or other live streaming companies in the same class. This may be the case because the platform is not Apple-friendly and requires installing an application that seems somewhat counter-intuitive to me. However, they are coming out [...]

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  • Tionna Smalls On Blog Fame

    Tionna Smalls boosted her career by writing an advice column for Nick Denton’s blog, Gawker. She is no longer with them, but her work can still be found on Gawker. Music: Mini Golf by Javelin.

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  • Twitter, YouTube and Communities via spam bots

    In today’s society the fights we get into online often materialize in the real world, sometimes resulting in negative social interactions all together. Lisa Nova likely used bots to build her friends and subscribers on YouTube and despite the backlash, is currently one of the most subscribed-to on YouTube. I appreciate Ze Frank’s Color War approach, however I’m more fascinated in the relationship and the connections we make online. Ze started the game and everyone joined in to pick a [...]

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  • LonelyGirl15′s Bree Is Back

    Jessica Rose, the star of lonelygirl15 returns to the web with a new horror series called Dead Cell Dead Friend (watch official trailer here) Stuff provides a nice background on the new production led by 60 Frames entertainment. YouTube fame Caitlin Hill writes an interesting post about being inspired by Rose to videoblog.

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  • Interview with Blip.tv CEO

    Today I walked a gasping one full block from our new office in Soho to blip.tv to interview Mike Hudack and check out his new office. While I was there, I got a chance to meet the blip team and see where they make the magic happen. Mike Hudack is 24 years old, never graduated High School, and one of the most intelligent and impressive guys I’ve met. He and his team have grown the site into one of the [...]

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  • Hollywood Goes Internet Famous

    The stars of traditional media are beginning to make their way online: The Miley and Mandy show, The Real Demilovato, Rosie O’Donnell, Kelly Rowland.

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  • Rock Star Venture Capitalists

    Online popularity continues to fluctuate as the web continues to develop and more and more people continue to engage in activity online. Recently, the investors of web start-ups have been taking the spotlight due to their willingness to be transparent online. For example see: Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures Susan Wu at Charles River Ventures Steve Jurvetson at DFJ

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  • Gary Vaynerchuk on how he started WLTV

    I took the NJ train to meet Gary Vaynerchuk at the official Wine Library store. He told me about how he started WLTV on his own and what inspired him to do it. Gary is a prolific vlogger on WLTV and on his personal site.

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  • Ground Report

    Rachel Sterne and I went out to report on people’s stories with the economy. Rachel is the founder and CEO of Ground Report, a place to share stories and participate in citizen journalism, and she frequently submits reports. Rachel says, “GroundReport.com is a citizen journalism platform that lets people share their stories and earn money based on traffic. Our goal is to democratize the media. We ventured out onto the streets… to ask people for on-the-ground perspectives of the effects [...]

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  • Interview with Andy Plesser of Beet.TV

    I stopped by Beet.TV to check out Andy Plesser‘s Manhattan studio and find out more about what Beet.TV is up to.

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  • Flixwagon

    Today I sat down with Sarig Reichert of Flixwagon, the company that I use to embed my live, mobile phone to web updates. More on Flixwagon from VentureBeat

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  • Color War 2008 on Twitter

    Color war started with Ze Frank and has become a popular meme on twitter. The game has an official website with the registered teams, challenges, and rules. To follow who is in the lead of the games an official website is devoted to ranking the teams. For today’s episode, I conducted a few quick interviews with Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, Matthew Ebel and Christopher Penn to find out why they joined Color War. The Sky Blue Team is [...]

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