Claude Penland: Actuary & Partner, Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100720/meet-flipboard-mike-mccue-talks-about-stealth-social-magazine-start-up-that-just-nabbed-10-5-million/

“Essentially, Flipboard pulls information from sites such as Twitter and Facebook data streams and then reassembles it in an easy-to-navigate, personalized format in a mobile tablet touchscreen environment.

In this social magazine, there are pull quotes, photos, videos, status updates and even the first paragraphs of content linked out to. There is also the ability to comment and share, as if one were on Twitter or Facebook.

Co-founded by longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike McCue and former Apple iPhone engineer Evan Doll in January, Flipboard decloaked itself tonight, announcing both a $10.5 million funding from top Silicon Valley power players and also the acquisition of Ellerdale, a relevancy search engine for the real-time Web.”

www.flipboard.com

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http://mashable.com/2010/07/07/essential-business-resources/

Some salient Mashable posts in 2010.

One of the purposes of this blog is for me to kick around ideas for what my next career moves will be.  You get to read my brain droppings while I figure it out.

With that in mind, I enjoyed this quote from Nick Denton of Gawker Media:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/07/09/why-is-nick-denton-suddenly-so-bullish/

“Denton lays out the most optimistic scenario: “This is like the early days of cable,” he says. “High—surprisingly high—startup costs. But eventually advertisers move across and the margins are lavish for the leading players in each category. Jezebel becomes Lifetime, HuffPo becomes MSNBC and Henry [Blodget] becomes CNBC.”

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/24/forum-site-lefora-gobbled-up-by-crowdgather/

Free: www.lefora.com , or

Pay, bring your own domain name: www.tal.ki/embeddable-forums-by-lefora

http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2010/07/21/jive-software-gets-30-million-enterprise-social-media-tools

“Jive Software, a provider of social networking tools for businesses, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $30 million in its third round of funding.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the investment round; Sequoia Capital also participated.

Portland, Ore.-based Jive counts around 3,000 enterprise customers, and some 15 million users of its social media products. ”

www.jivesoftware.com