The new recruiting ecosystem

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The proliferation of social and professional networks makes some job boards and headhunters feel pretty old-fashioned. Professional social networks like LinkedIn and Viadeo already play a big role in talent acquisition, while companies like BranchOut, Jobvite and even Monster are building Facebook apps for hiring and career development.

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Social Ridesharing Startup Ridejoy Raises $1.3M From Freestyle Capital, Lerer Ventures And Others

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Ridejoy , a YC-backed startup that brings people together via ridesharing on long-distance trips, has raised $1.3 million in seed funding led by Freestyle Capital with Lerer Ventures, Start Fund, SV Angel, Founder Collective, Y Combinator, Ben Ling, Owen Van Natta and Joshua Schachter participating.

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CowBird: Thoughtful Storytelling

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I was fortunate to recently receive an invite to Cowbird. It is a very beautiful and purposeful place on the interwebs for storytelling and building a history of interconnectedness and interdependence through an interface that encourages the recording of characters and places and seeks a depth in the online reflections of its contributors

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Will Facebook Mobile Ads be Here by March? [Facebook]

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Last week's IPO filing was bound to see Facebook push for extra revenue, and it is. The Financial Times reports that Zuckerberg is bringing ads to mobile devices in the next two months

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Ahead Of Its IPO On Th NYSE, Yelp Shows Growing Losses

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It may now be obscured by all the hoopla surrounding Facebook’s going public, but back in November the popular user-generated review site, Yelp , filed to go public and planned to raise $100 million ahead of its IPO (at an expected $1 to $2 billion valuation).

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Grammy Awards partner with CBS for digital experience

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In these heady two-or-three-screen days, the Grammy Awards has been a classic case study in how social media engagement can pay off ratings-wise. Viewership of the on-air broadcast have increased dramatically since 2009 in younger demographics, with no small amount of credit due to the increasingly elaborate digital campaigns implemented by the Recording Academy.

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Bang!

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We went to see The Artist last night. I didn’t want to go; if God wanted silent movies he wouldn’t have invented sound, etc. And black and white to boot

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The Future of Peer Review

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This guest post was written by Richard Price, founder and CEO of Academia.edu — an online community that revolves around researchers and their work. Instant distribution Many academics are excited about the future of instant distribution of research.

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How Facebook Really Stacks Up Against Pre-IPO Google

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Now that Facebook is preparing the biggest tech IPO in history, it is possible to compare its financials and potential market value to Google’s when it went public.

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Facebook – Run from the Bulls?

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Editor’s note : Guest author   Keith Teare   is General Partner at his incubator   Archimedes Labs   and CEO of newly funded   just.me .

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