document.write('<div id=\"originalsignal_widget_by_spm\"><h2>Web 2.0 news</h2><small>By <a href="http://web20.originalsignal.com" target="_blank">Original Signal</a></small>');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/2x7xm6ciA0k/" title="TechStars, a seed stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder, Boston and Seattle,  has invested $16.5 million in 39 companies. OF the total, 29are still active, five were acquired and four failed. Twenty seven have  managed to raised outside funding." target="_blank">');
document.write('TechStars Grades Itself');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/YsruV342FS0/" title="The battle between Google and Apple continues.  RJ Pittman, a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple.  We\'ve been tipped off to a tweet he sent o(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Google Product Manager RJ Pittman Defects To Apple');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/MUpGXGg0FGE/" title="Web publishing startup DocStoc is launching a customized document viewer today, allowing anyone to create easily embeddable, branded document viewers. The new feature is open to all DocStoc users and offers (...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Web Publishing Startup DocStoc Now Offers Branded Viewers To Users');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/2cUJe2BmTDM/" title="In terms of location data, few get more than Skyhook Wireless. The positioning technology is in use in tens of milli(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('SpotRank Is Skyhook’s Intelligent Location Firehose. SimpleGeo Is The First To Wield.');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/03/14/techstars-grades-itself/" title="TechStars, a seed stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder (Colorado), Boston and Seattle, recently decided to graded itself. So far, the group is not doing to badly. Out of the total 39 companies to come out of TechStars, 29 are still active, five were " target="_blank">');
document.write('TechStars Grades Itself');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/03/14/google-accepts-buzz-criticism-invites-boyd-to-speak-on-privacy/" title="Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch. Members of the product team spoke on an inside-the-scenes panel at SXSW today, facing industry-wide criticism as well as cutting attacks over privacy issues from keynoter &#38; researcher Danah Boyd." target="_blank">');
document.write('Google Accepts Buzz Criticism, Invites Boyd to Speak on Privacy');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/03/14/when-it-comes-to-web-scale-go-cheap-go-custom-or-go-home/" title="Dealing with the awesome amounts of data generated by users and serving up relationships tied to that data quickly are forcing web-scale sites like Twitter, Reddit and Facebook to investigate a variety of home-built, open sourced solutions. Here\'s what they are using and why it matters." target="_blank">');
document.write('When it Comes to Web Scale Go Cheap, Go Custom or Go Home');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://gigaom.com/2010/03/14/sxsw-shirkys-new-opportunities-in-public-sharing/" title="Today social technology theorist Clay Shirky delivered a fitting counterpoint to Danah Boyd\'s keynote on privacy at SXSW the day before. Where Boyd spoke of the danger of making information more public than users intended it, Shirky talked about new opportunities for sharing information." target="_blank">');
document.write('SXSW: Shirky’s New Opportunities in Public Sharing');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Mashable/~3/yZU8arVRnJ0/" title="An extended outtake sequence from director Ron Howard&#8217;s &#8220;Funny or Die&#8217;s Presidential Reunion&#8221; featuring Will Ferrell as George W. Bush and Dana Carvey as George Bush Sr. is making the rounds on the Internet. The original clip has attracted almost three million views.This(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Funny Or Die Outtake Reunites SNL’s George W. and Bush Sr.');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/LVmD2ubMwps/" title="Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch. Members the product team spoke on a inside-the-scenes panel at SXSW today, facing industry-wide criticism as well as some cutting attacks over privacy issues from keynoter &#38; researcher Danah Boyd." target="_blank">');
document.write('Google Accepts Buzz Criticism, Invites Boyd to Speak on Privacy');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/aNPAmJef-Lk/never-mind-the-valley-heres-bo.php" title="Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and fueled by leaders and social hubs such as Micah Baldwin, Tech Stars mentor, #followfriday creator and now chief community caretaker at Graphic.ly  of Di(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Never Mind the Valley: Here\'s Boulder, Part 2');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/z9zZVr0iGlE/" title="In terms of location data, few get more than Skyhook Wireless. The positioning technology is in use in tens of millions of devices around the globe, including, notably, on every iPhone. And now the company has a simple way for third-parties to tap into that data in a useful way.SpotRank gives d(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('SpotRank Is Skyhook’s Intelligent Location Firehose. SimpleGeo Is The First To Wield.');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/kPtblua8VrQ/" title="In our Scamville series of posts last October we exposed the massive user fraud occurring Facebook and MySpace social games. Fake quizzes tied to long term mobile subscriptions, mal(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Scamville Marches Onto The iPhone, Sneaks Back Into Facebook');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/_D6uiwW7rPI/" title="In our Scamville series of posts last October we exposed the massive user fraud occurring Facebook and MySpace social games. Fake quizzes tied to long term mobile subscriptions, malware-laden toolbar downloads and other scams were the center of the controversy.  The industry did a lot of talkin(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Scamville Marches Onto The iPhone, Sneaks Back Into Facebook');
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document.write('<li><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/GIJUqHH1ZCo/" title="The SXSW festival in Austin, Texas is currently ground zero for a war, the location war. While over a dozen services h(...)" target="_blank">');
document.write('Foursquare And Gowalla In A Dead Heat In The Location War');
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