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The easiest way to discuss what you love — live.

2011-06-02 by Andrew
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Life After TechCrunch Disrupt

Following TechCrunch Disrupt (NYC) last week, we thought it would be interesting to review the history of winners (and notable runner-ups). So we created this infographic breaking down all the winners since 2007, their funding situation, and where they are now. What are your thoughts on these startups and the TechCrunch competition? Let us know [...]

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2011-05-23 by Clint
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3 Great Conferences to Discuss Live

There are 3 great tech conferences this week. Whether you’re attending or not, discussing the conferences LIVE on Namesake as they happen is the next best thing to actually being there. Click on one of the links below to discuss the conference as it happens. TechCrunch Disrupt What?: A big tech confab put on by [...]

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2011-05-22 by Namesake Team
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Namesake vs. the World

We’re often asked “What is the difference between Namesake and ‘X’?” So here’s a quick primer on the differences between Namesake and some of the most popular social sites out there. Namesake vs. Quora Quora is a social question and answer site. Their ‘thing’ is to find the definitive answer for any question posed by [...]

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2011-05-18 by Namesake Team
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Are you who you say you are?

In the online world there’s a continuum from hyper-transparency/real identity all the way to obfuscation/anonymity. The poles are represented by Facebook and 4Chan. In this infographic, we take a look at these opposing philosophies and some of the space in between. Are you who you say you are? (click image to enlarge)

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2011-05-10 by Clint
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Publish Better, Publish Media

There were two product releases within the last week that are worth noting: The Publisher The publisher is this thing: It used to be the only step in starting a conversation; say something and optionally attach a video. But then you had to perform an extra click or three to go to the conversation and [...]

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2011-05-03 by Namesake Team
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Breakdown of the Takedown: #Osama’s Last Hour

Anatomy of the bin Laden Takedown http://wp.me/p1vTYy-4Y #infographic #obl

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2011-04-28 by Namesake Team
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How to Use @Color

Have you seen Peter Pham’s smart phone app Color™? It is a location-aware social application. We spent a little time thinking of offbeat ways to use it. Showing people that you photo-bombed them in real time, how awesome is that?

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2011-04-25 by Namesake Team
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Have An Impossible Mission

Namesake Co-founder Dan Gould sat down (ok, he was a bit more dynamic than that) with the fine folks at IdeaMensch to talk about “Big To Small: Building Large Visions Through Tiny Steps” Check out the video below – Dan gives a great talk about how to get started building your company. Big to Small: [...]

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2011-04-25 by Namesake Team
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Site Updates – April 25, 2011

Over the weekend we shipped some new features and tweaked a few things to make Namesake even better. Conversation Summaries We added the ability to create a conversation summary for Conversations with more than 10 comments. Scroll to the top of any Conversation with more than 10 comments and if it doesn’t already have a [...]

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2011-04-20 by Namesake Team
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OMG! We Hired Someone!

We are stoked to announce that Andrew Skotzko has joined the Namesake team! I could blather on about Andrew’s accomplishments and C.V. He graduated from USC’s entrepreneur school, ran customer development at the advertising startup CitizenNet…blah blah blah. Fine, you want more? Go check his About Me page on his blog. Way more interesting is [...]

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