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Skip The Gift Cards: Boomerang Makes Holiday Gifting Fast And Thoughtful

There’s nothing that says, “I don’t know you at all” like a Target gift card given over the holidays. Enter Boomerang, a Chicago-based startup that makes holiday gifting fast AND thoughtful by allowing you to send digital gifts to your Facebook friends.

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Project Fixup: Chicago Dating Startup Does The Dirty Work For You

Chicago entrepreneurs Sarah Press and Alan Illing are fed up with the aimlessness of current online dating websites, and have recently launched the new dating service that does the matching and planning footwork work for you.

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How A Startup Can Change The Election

Raising money via Twitter is attractive to a candidate rather than other fundraising options because political fundraising is about convincing your friends, family and like minded people to invest in an idea and a person.

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Elephrame: An Ideas Network Grows In Chicago

Originally launched as an “encyclopedia of ideas” in January of last year, Elephrame has since become a space online where users can voice their opinions and delve into the world views of others on any topic.

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Curalate’s ‘Promote’ Quadruples Followers In Pinterest Sweepstakes

Curalate, the first marketing platform for the visual web, is announcing the success of the company’s Promote tool, which recently helped Carnival Cruise Lines quadruple followers during an 11-day promotion on Pinterest.

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6 Ways to Leverage Third-Party Apps on Facebook Timeline

How specifically should businesses leverage third-party apps to generate leads for Facebook Timeline? What works and what doesn’t? The Young Entrepreneur Council has your answers.

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Bonfyre Unveils Mobile App At DEMO 2012

The app is focused around friends sharing experiences in a private mobile network, where photos and memories take precedent over the cluttered feed of social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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Exclusive: Fliksee Helps Connect Students, Plans For October 8 Launch On DePaul Campus

Instead of helping college students maintain the friendships they already have, Fliksee is looking to provide busy students with a new resource for meeting other people on campus.

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CyPOP Draws Inspiration From South Korea By Connecting Users Through Common Interests

Unlike Facebook, CyPOP is focusing on connecting individuals online through common interests, instead of the daisy chain of friends and acquaintances that make up most social networking sites today.

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Grubwithus Introduces Meal Topics To Grow User Engagement

The addition of topics will allow Grubwithus users to share an idea, question, or trending news story with the community, opening an online discussion between users that can lead to real-life interaction.

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