A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 3)

SM: When you first started were there any other companies competing in the social IM space? JK: There were some companies that came out focusing on voice conferencing via the Internet. LibStream, FireTalk, and HearMe were the most significant, and all were well funded. HearMe was a public company and had $270 million in public

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A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 2)

SM: When you had your first IM client, who were your competitors? JK: At that time AOL and ICQ were had the primary instant messaging clients. MSN, Yahoo and Skype had not yet entered the field. Of course, those IM clients were text only and did not involve a voice component like ours.

A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 1)

Jason Katz is the founder and CEO of Paltalk.com. Jason oversees the strategic direction of Paltalk and also manages the company’s system architecture. Jason is an authority on instant messaging as well as web based voice and video. Jason previously co-founded MJ Capital, a money management firm. Earlier in his career, he was a corporate

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The Deal Radar 2010: LivingSocial ,Washington, DC

LivingSocial is an online community that connects more than 85 million people and powers group buying through Deals, its social commerce program. Through Deals, LivingSocial users and their friends can save 50%–70% or more each day on restaurants, spas, sporting events, hotels, and other local attractions in major cities. The company is also the creator

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1M/1M: Ambassador Program

To those of you who have expressed interest in being 1M/1M ambassadors: Some of you have attended the January 21 roundtable and listened to me discussing the endeavor and the strategy. For those who did not have a chance to attend the roundtable, the recording is here. Before we move forward, please make sure you

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Deal Radar 2009: Viralheat

One of the newest entrants in the social media monitoring space, Viralheat uses techniques in large-scale network monitoring and proprietary P2P cloud computing to enable brands, agencies, marketers and content producers to measure the impact of their social media marketing campaigns.

Deal Radar 2009: EQAL

Social media entertainment company EQAL (pronounced “equal”) was founded in April 2008 by Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried. Beckett, who was working as a plastic surgeon resident at the Loma Linda Medical Center outside of Los Angeles, quit to pursue his dream of working at the intersection of entertainment and technology. He moved back to

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Deal Radar 2009: Meteor Solutions

As the traditional ad market falters, social media appears poised to step up and claim part of the void left by print advertising sales. Meteor Solutions offers a software platform that allows brands to measure and increase the effectiveness of their social media marketing program. With the company’s patented software, customers can measure, manage, and

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