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- Ben Casnocha: The Blog , April 15, 2010 Everyone I spoke with loved the idea. Redeye VC , April 13, 2010 Startup Development - SoCal CTO , April 23, 2010 Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?
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Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from socialnetworks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. What is Frequency?
Most focus on two things though, the amount of women that use the site and the amount of money dirty marketing people are going to make from it. The inspiration for this blog post via a recent Tweet , Hunter is a force of good at Youtube and Google. He also recently blogged his feelings on Pinterest mania. Hunter Walk.
The new features allow users to automatically post a link in the Facebook socialnetworkingsite or the Twitter micro-blogging service with any upload or download of a document.
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