On Track To Make $8 Million This Year, Refinery29 Invades San Francisco

CEO Philippe von Borries tells me the company’s is on track to do $8 million in revenues this year, based on the first quarter run-rate. It ended 2010 with $2 million in sales, up from %600,000 in 2009. “Our formula is to engage users with content and convert them into shoppers,” he says. Still, he expects advertising to make up 75 percent of his revenues this year, and the commerce business to make up another 25 percent. The Reserve business is only in New York right now, but will soon launch in San Francisco as well

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Interesting hyper-local strategy.

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IntoNow: $0 to$30M in 12 months

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There are some good benchmarks for valuations in the article. IntoNow is rumored to have between $500,000 to a million users.

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IntoNow: $0 to$30M in 12 months

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There are some good benchmarks for valuations in the article. IntoNow is rumored to have between $500,000 to a million users.

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IntoNow: $0 to $30M in 12 month

Now the big question: what will Yahoo do with IntoNow?

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It's rumored they have between 500,000 to a million users. This article has a few good benchmarks for potential valuations and modeling.

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iPhone Found to Track Users’ Movement

iPhone Found to Track Users’ Movement
TAXI DAILY NEWS | APRIL 21, 2011
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Two security researchers have uncovered a startling find: that the Apple iPhone secretly keeps track of wherever a user goes, ... Read more

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Over 3 Million Checked-in on ‘Foursquare Day’

Over 3 Million Checked-in on ‘Foursquare Day’
TAXI DAILY NEWS | APRIL 21, 2011
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Over three million people checked-in on Foursquare on its second ever ‘4sqDay’ held on 16 April, the location-based social ... Read more

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News.me’s Social News Aggregator For The iPad Now Live On The App Store

News.me’s Social News Aggregator For The iPad Now Live On The App Store
TECHCRUNCH | APRIL 21, 2011
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As we reported in February, betaworks and the New York Times are collaborating to launch a socialnews reader for the iPad ... Read more

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NYTimes: In Online Games, a Path to Young Consumers

Food marketers are pitching their products to children via Web sites that critics say blur the line between activities and advertising. http://nyti.ms/hq4L7O

"I'm thinking yes!"

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By 2015, 50 percent of companies will embrace gamification | VentureBeat

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Gamification makes life more interesting.

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Anti-Porn Politician Busted Watching Porn in Parliament

An Indonesian politician whose party sponsors anti-porn legislation has resigned after being photographed watching porn in parliament on his tablet computer. And as if that wasn't bad enough, he used the old "I just opened a link in an email" excuse.

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Haha would you expect anything less?

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Anti-Porn Politician Busted Watching Porn in Parliament

Anti-Porn Politician Busted Watching Porn in Parliament

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Haha would you expect anything less?

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You're Not Sharing What You Think You Are on Facebook

We think our college buddies will get a kick out of the fact that we drunkenly fell off a table while singing Justin Bieber at karaoke last night, but we don't want our mom to find out. It doesn't matter if she learns this through a picture, or our own status update, or a friend's wall post.

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Facebook: you have plenty of capital and resources. Please stop being pathetic and fix this.

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Trunk Club: Outfitting Men Just The Way They (And Their Wives) Like It

Back when we wrote about Trunk Club in 2009, the startup was an innovative new way that men could hire their own personal shopper via Skype video sessions, who try to figure out what kind of clothes they wear, what is lacking in their wardrobe, and what kind of clothes they might be willing to try. Similar to a retailer, Trunk Club sent desirable, stylist-picked clothes to gentlemen, which they tried on for stylists via Skype. The gents and Trunk Club stylists then nixed the clothes that didn’t work and the men were only charged for the clothes that they kept. Unfortunately, there were major problems with this model.

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Get your own virtual personal stylist.

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SocialGuide Raises $1.5 Million For Social TV Guide

SocialGuide, a New York-based startup building a realtime ‘social TV guide’, has secured $1.5 million in funding led by a group of angel investors including Alex Zubillaga, the former head of digital strategy at Warner Music.

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Social Discovery of TV Shows

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The Games Companies Play - BusinessWeek

The trend, known as gamification, lets businesses weave elements of games into applications that otherwise have little to do with playing. The market for gamification will grow to $1.6 billion in 2015, from $100 million in 2011, according to Wanda Meloni, founder of M2 Research, a consulting firm that researches the gaming industry.

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"Gamification" making apps that have nothing to do with playing more interesting

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The Gamification of the Workplace

The Games Companies Play

Siemens, Hilton, and Target are using games to train workers and improve how they design and market products

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From corporate training to loyalty programs, gaming is becoming an influential driver of human engagement for corporations.

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Kevin Rose’s New Mobile App Dev Lab: "Milk

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Angel Investors Counter Y Combinator Start Fund With New $100 Million Early Stage “End Fund”

“We are at a unique point in history, where any two people can create a new startup and have a nearly certain chance of at least modest success,” says McClure. “Even if the product fails completely, Google and Facebook will compete to acquire the team and investors will at least get their money back.”

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Really?

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+Like Browser Extension Pretty Much Eliminates The Need For Google +1

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Yesterday, it was Google +1, today's its Facebook +Like for Google.

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