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Yeah, that’s right!   I published a post yesterday saying I had 5 ActiveRain invites to give away… Only to say a few hours later I never meant to hit publish on the post.
Ironically, I was approached by someone running a social network offering to bail me out by offering 4realz readers 5 invites to a [...]

…pre-launch opinion was to be very skeptical.
After a conversation with Ryan Slack (former CEO of PropertyShark, now CEO of MyDealBook), I became more optimistic that he had a plan beyond starting with a mass of users.
The way I understand it, the site is kind of cross between LinkedIn and ActiveRain… but with a larger focus [...]

…could be huge.
I’ve always enjoyed the niche social networks bought by Yahoo (Flickr, Upcoming, del.icio.us, etc.)… and if they can keep them niche, while making Yahoo more social, there’s potential for some interesting synergies.
(I found this particularly interesting in the context of Yahoo’s desire to keep prodding along…)

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…Joel off?

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…hour on Trulia Voices, so I’m playing over there right now!
(And while I’m at it, I want to thank the Trulia folks for helping us build some pre-seminar buzz!   Between yesterday’s podcast and today’s Q&A session, they’re keeping me on my toes!)

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… A Facebook Friend.”

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…my facebook addiction runs pretty deep (thanks mostly to so many of my family members joining up) and while I could easily set up another site similar to 4realz, I wouldn’t (easily) give up the freedom of having a personal blog. On LinkedIn the community is pretty weakly connected and really only good for finding [...]