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Debating Some of the Issues of Our Time with Dmitry Shapiro

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The last startup he did raised $70 million for the online video space before being sued for more than $1 billion by Universal. We talked about how his new company, AnyBeat , will be a difference kind of social network. I had the pleasure of sitting down for an hour with Dmitry Shapir o of AnyBeat this week. Or does he?

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Altly Reveals Seed Investors

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Altly detailed its plans to create an alternative to Facebook last week, complaining in a lengthy manifesto from Shapiro that an alternative to Facebook was sorely needed due to privacy and other issues with the social networking site. Shapiro was the former founder of Veoh Networks and head of MySpace Music.

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Facebook Competitor Altly Becomes Anybeat

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Altly , the startup headed by Dmitry Shapiro which is developing an alternative to Facebook, said Monday that it has renamed the firm to AnyBeat.com. In addition to the new name, AnyBeat outlined a number of principles behind the social network. Shapiro was formerly the founder of Veoh Networks, and head of MySpace Music.

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Anybeat Opens To Public Access

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Los Angeles-based Anybeat , the alternative social networking site created by former MySpace Music VP Dmitri Shapiro, has opened up broad, public access to the service. Shapiro was also the founder of video site Veoh. READ MORE>>.

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Altly Posts Anti-Facebook Manifesto, Gets Funding

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Los Angeles-based Altly , the latest startup of Dmitry Shapiro , the founder of Veoh and former CTo of MySpace Music, has officially thrown down the gauntlet, saying in a blog post this week that it there is a need for an alternative to Facebook--and the firm is going to create that alternative.

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

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This was in part due to a tremendously busy 30-day period for me (in which my overall writing has been down) and in part the inevitability of knowing that weighing in just tees me up to take abuse on one anonymous app called Secret. In short I ended up having to deal with what is affectionally called on the Internet – trolls.