In our second video from EconSM 2008, Social Approach’s CEO Shawn Gold moderated Getting Real: Grown-Up Start Ups with Dalton Caldwell, imeem’s founder and CEO, Seth Goldstein, SocialMedia Networks’ co-founder…

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On Tuesday we had our second Economics of Social Media conference and, as promised, we’ll be posting videos here of all the sessions. Below, our Keynote Q&A with Steve Wadsworth,…

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Today we had our second annual Economics of Social Media conference. The jampacked event began Monday night with our first panel and mixer at Casa del Mar in Santa Monica,…

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AOL president Ron Grant, appearing on our EconSM panel, suggested new acquisition of Bebo would be used to thread social features throughout AOL’s new-look websites. In a later chat with…

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The final panel at EconSM was the deals panel, which ContentNext Editor and Publisher Rafat Ali described as the “flagship” panel. Economy and outlook for 2008: Geoff Yang, Redpoint Ventures:…

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AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) $850 million purchase of Bebo back in March was one of the big social media deals of the year. In a Q&A with ContentNext co-editor Staci Kramer…

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Advertisers and media companies have a strange disconnect when it comes to social media. On one hand, they’re heartily embrace the ability to directly engage with consumers. And on the…

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Dick Glover, the CEO of Funny or Die, the comedy site known for its smash hit short film “The Landlord,” starring Will Ferrell, and Chris Henchy, head of West Coast…

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Lumbering giants of the past or the prime innovators of the moment? That was the question moderator and EconSM conference editorial director Elizabeth Osder put to a panel of old…

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Last week at the Web 2.0 Expo, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) took the wraps off its new social initiative dubbed Yahoo! Open Strategy—but it’s not a social network! “The world doesn’t…

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At our EconSM social media conference in Los Angeles, I caught up with Loic Le Meur, CEO, founder of webcam video commenting startup Seesmic, between sessions to ask him about…

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Shawn Gold, moderator for this session on scaling social media start-ups in to larger enterprises, kicked off with a challenge: “Hands up if your profitable”. Palms went up from half…

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Alluding to Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) decision to pass on buying MySpace, Staci D. Kramer, co-editor/EVP for paidContent parent ContentNext Media, asked a panel of MTV Network executives about missed opportunities…

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Just in case you were curious: The Miley Cyrus pictures will not be appearing on Disney.com anytime soon, at least according to Steve Wadsworth, President, Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:…

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Panel moderator Robert Scoble opened by asking our guests for an overview of the emerging social video space. Loic Le Meur, CEO of webcam video commenting startup Seesmic, said “about…

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Our publisher Rafat Ali is on stage at the Skirball Center auditorium in beautiful scenery here in the hills surrounding Los Angeles, kicking off our second EconSM conference covering the…

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After discussing their new jobs, Dennis Haarsager, interim CEO of National Public Radio, asked members of the opening panel at ContentNext’s EconSM conference the way social media has influenced the…

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We’re about two weeks away from our Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference at Skirball Center in LA. For those of you who are attending the conference, we have a…

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Our EconSM conference planning is kicking into high gear, and we have several new speakers and topics to announce (with more to come this week): -- We’ll hear from Jeff…

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Ticket sales are now open for our second Economics of Social Media (EconSM) full-day conference, being held on April 29th at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles. This year we’re…

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We opened up registration for our EconHealth seminar last week, and coming this Tuesday, early bird tickets for our conference Economics of Social Media (EconSM 2008). This year it is…

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Before the end of our sold-out Economics of Social Media conference in April, we were already hearing from participants who wanted a reprise. Now we can tell you that will…

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This is the fifth video posted from our The Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference. The first four are here. To refresh your memory, EconSM was held on April 26th…

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This is the fourth video posted from our The Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference. The first panel video is here (Social Media CEOs), the second panel video (Social Media…

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This is the fourth video posted from our The Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference. The first panel video is here (Social Media CEOs), the second panel video (Social Media…

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