Anthony Bradley

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A New Model for Funding Social Media

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  September 29, 2009  |  Comments Off

We are all familiar with the advertising-driven model for social media (ex. facebook), the donation-based model (ex. Wikipedia), and the elusive subscription-based model. After talking with government organizations that were including the creation of and posting to a social media based collaborative environment in their funding grants to research organizations, I have talked about a [...]

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Mashup Companies Still Getting Funding

by Anthony J. Bradley  |  December 22, 2008  |  Comments Off

JackBe, a leading boutique vendor of enterprise mashup technologies recently announced a new $5 million round of funding. Mashable.com had a good article titled “RockYou Spits in Recession’s Face, Secures $17 Million in Funding” that covers some 2008 investment in public Web based mashup companies. I expected 2008 to be the year of the enterprise [...]

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