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Leena Rao describes its offering below.
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"startup 140 Proof is entering the mix with its Twitter-based ad network. The network bypasses Twitter’s site completely and allows 3rd-party Twitter clients sell space on the network to advertisers. The ads appear in third-party Twitter clients who use 140 Proof’s API to serve and measure their ads. Ads are served within users Twitter streams on these clients (mobile, desktop or web) and clearly marked as ads."
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"The big idea behind the Palo Alto, Calif. startup is that a lot of the data from your credit card can be used socially. Whenever you make a purchase with the credit card that you’ve linked to the Blippy site, it shows up in your profile, so people following you can see, for example, that you bought a movie ticket from Fandango." [Anthony Ha - VentureBeat]
Here is the first quarterly update of the Global VC Blog Directory – originally published in May 2009. These are the blogs of venture capitalists and VC firms from around the world – ranked by their number of Google Reader subscribers.
"..New location app Rally is different, though. There’s no way to add Rally friends from Twitter or Facebook or anywhere else, because as Rally sees it, those aren’t really your friends. The only way to find someone on Rally is to look for them.." [David Pierce on Venture Beat]
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