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		<title>Startup News: The Library of Congress Has a Twitter Problem</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:05:15 -0400</pubDate>
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<p><strong>API Rate Limit Exceeded</strong> Back in April of 2010, the Library of Congress promised to add every tweet up to that date to its famous archives. But like anyone following too many people at once, it's just caused one big mess. The library now has an archive of approximately <a href="http://www.blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/01/update-on-the-twitter-archive-at-the-library-of-congress/">170 billion tweets</a> totaling to a compressed 133.2 terabytes. Now the librarians of Congress are planning to work with <a href="http://www.gnip.com">Gnip</a>, the company currently organizing all of the data, to develop a plan for archiving all of the tweets.</p>
<p>Apparently there have already been more than 400 access requests to the Twitter archives from researches doing work on citizen journalism and political communications. Someone needs to teach the librarians how to make lists as soon as humanly possible.<!--more--></p>
<p><strong>Schools Get Cash</strong> The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has just pumped a bunch of cash into New York's tech universities. It has awarded a total of $15 million to Columbia University, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and High Tech Rochester to create three Proof-of-Concept Centers dedicated to helping inventors and scientists turn their high-tech, clean-energy ideas into successful businesses. Columbia will form a new accelerator, several upstate schools will work together on a new development center, and NYU-Poly will work with CUNY to create PowerBridge, an applied science research institute that focuses on challenges specific to an urban environment.</p>
<p><strong>Drop The Ball, Up The Traffic</strong> The customized mobile site publisher <a href="http://onswipe.com/" target="_blank">Onswipe</a> had lots of reasons to pop champagne on New Year's Eve. The company says that it has reached 44 million unique visitors in total for 2012 and now is reaching more than 10 million monthly active uniques on iOS devices. The publisher also saw a huge bump in traffic after people opened their gifts on Christmas morning. Most notably, in the two days after the holiday, total unique visits on its sites jumped 22 percent and Kindle Fire unique visitors increased 75 percent.</p>
<p><strong>Get Glasses, Give Glasses</strong> Diane von Furstenberg is teaming up with the insurance company VSP Vision Care to run a contest on Pinterest to help benefit the NYC Mission Society. Every time an image gets repinned from the VSP Pinterest Board, a gift certificate for an eye exam and glasses will be donated to the New York City Mission Society. These repinners are in luck too--when a user repins that image, they are automatically qualified to win a pair of DVF sunglasses and a $500 <a href="http://dvf.com/" target="_blank">DVF.com</a> gift certificate.</p>
<p><strong>Move, Drop, Shake</strong> <a href="https://www.unpakt.com/">Unpakt</a>, the site that lets you compare movers, continued its “Innovators on the Move” series. It features tech entrepreneurs reflecting on recent moves in their lives. This week's video features VHX founders Casey Pugh and Jamie Wilkinson talking about the move to its first offices in Brooklyn.</p>
<p><div class='embed-vimeo' style='text-align:center;'><iframe src='http://player.vimeo.com/video/55383008' width='600' height='338' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></p>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/55383008">Innovators on the Move: Casey &amp; Jamie</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/unpakt">Unpakt</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Baby You're A Firework (Filter)</strong> The favorite photo sharing app of the Williams sisters, <a href="http://www.mobli.com/">Mobli</a>, just celebrated 2013 in the best way they know how--by adding two new filters to its app. Both of them are New Year's Eve themed. One has a fireworks overlay, while the other has "2013" glittering in gold. Siiiick.</p>
<p><strong>Live Like 'Countdown'</strong> Just last month, <a href="http://www.gojee.com">Gojee</a> was the site to go to for recipes based on what's in your pantry. But it's recently launched a slew of fashion verticals which include landing pages for lingerie, heels, dresses, jewelry and handbags. The recipe sites are still up, so there's no need to panic about your dinner just yet. This makes living your best Beyonce life ("All up in the kitchen in my heels, dinner time") all that much more possible.</p>
<p><strong>More Style Buying</strong> Speaking of buying clothes based off the pretty images you find on Tumblr and Pinterest, there's now <a href="http://stylesays.com/" target="_blank">StyleSays</a> -- a new fashion image sharing community that connects users’ favorite style images to purchasable content. It tags pictures of pretty outfits with links to purchasable items. Some might be the exact product and it could give you an affordable alternative.</p>
<p><strong>AT&amp;T Sucks</strong> If one of your New Year's resolutions is to ditch your phone provider once and for all, consider making a switch to T-Mobile. The company is now touting the results of its $4 billion commitment to improving service and says its reception in New York is better than ever. Neville Ray, the CTO for T-Mobile, said in a blog post that NYC customers "can also bring their unlocked AT&amp;T smartphones to T-Mobile and experience a significant speed boost on our network with most devices, while also saving up to $50/month compared to AT&amp;T."</p>
<p><strong>Old dog learning new tricks, etc.</strong> <a href="http://www.bluefinlabs.com">Bluefin Labs</a>, the social TV analytics company for advertisers, just added an important employee to its team. Scott Grunther, a former Nielsen executive, is joining the Bluefin team in 2013 as a senior vice president. He will also be the general manager of media products out of the company’s New York office. He's been in the industry for 20 years.</p>
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<p><strong>API Rate Limit Exceeded</strong> Back in April of 2010, the Library of Congress promised to add every tweet up to that date to its famous archives. But like anyone following too many people at once, it's just caused one big mess. The library now has an archive of approximately <a href="http://www.blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/01/update-on-the-twitter-archive-at-the-library-of-congress/">170 billion tweets</a> totaling to a compressed 133.2 terabytes. Now the librarians of Congress are planning to work with <a href="http://www.gnip.com">Gnip</a>, the company currently organizing all of the data, to develop a plan for archiving all of the tweets.</p>
<p>Apparently there have already been more than 400 access requests to the Twitter archives from researches doing work on citizen journalism and political communications. Someone needs to teach the librarians how to make lists as soon as humanly possible.<!--more--></p>
<p><strong>Schools Get Cash</strong> The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has just pumped a bunch of cash into New York's tech universities. It has awarded a total of $15 million to Columbia University, the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and High Tech Rochester to create three Proof-of-Concept Centers dedicated to helping inventors and scientists turn their high-tech, clean-energy ideas into successful businesses. Columbia will form a new accelerator, several upstate schools will work together on a new development center, and NYU-Poly will work with CUNY to create PowerBridge, an applied science research institute that focuses on challenges specific to an urban environment.</p>
<p><strong>Drop The Ball, Up The Traffic</strong> The customized mobile site publisher <a href="http://onswipe.com/" target="_blank">Onswipe</a> had lots of reasons to pop champagne on New Year's Eve. The company says that it has reached 44 million unique visitors in total for 2012 and now is reaching more than 10 million monthly active uniques on iOS devices. The publisher also saw a huge bump in traffic after people opened their gifts on Christmas morning. Most notably, in the two days after the holiday, total unique visits on its sites jumped 22 percent and Kindle Fire unique visitors increased 75 percent.</p>
<p><strong>Get Glasses, Give Glasses</strong> Diane von Furstenberg is teaming up with the insurance company VSP Vision Care to run a contest on Pinterest to help benefit the NYC Mission Society. Every time an image gets repinned from the VSP Pinterest Board, a gift certificate for an eye exam and glasses will be donated to the New York City Mission Society. These repinners are in luck too--when a user repins that image, they are automatically qualified to win a pair of DVF sunglasses and a $500 <a href="http://dvf.com/" target="_blank">DVF.com</a> gift certificate.</p>
<p><strong>Move, Drop, Shake</strong> <a href="https://www.unpakt.com/">Unpakt</a>, the site that lets you compare movers, continued its “Innovators on the Move” series. It features tech entrepreneurs reflecting on recent moves in their lives. This week's video features VHX founders Casey Pugh and Jamie Wilkinson talking about the move to its first offices in Brooklyn.</p>
<p><div class='embed-vimeo' style='text-align:center;'><iframe src='http://player.vimeo.com/video/55383008' width='600' height='338' frameborder='0'></iframe></div></p>
<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/55383008">Innovators on the Move: Casey &amp; Jamie</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/unpakt">Unpakt</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Baby You're A Firework (Filter)</strong> The favorite photo sharing app of the Williams sisters, <a href="http://www.mobli.com/">Mobli</a>, just celebrated 2013 in the best way they know how--by adding two new filters to its app. Both of them are New Year's Eve themed. One has a fireworks overlay, while the other has "2013" glittering in gold. Siiiick.</p>
<p><strong>Live Like 'Countdown'</strong> Just last month, <a href="http://www.gojee.com">Gojee</a> was the site to go to for recipes based on what's in your pantry. But it's recently launched a slew of fashion verticals which include landing pages for lingerie, heels, dresses, jewelry and handbags. The recipe sites are still up, so there's no need to panic about your dinner just yet. This makes living your best Beyonce life ("All up in the kitchen in my heels, dinner time") all that much more possible.</p>
<p><strong>More Style Buying</strong> Speaking of buying clothes based off the pretty images you find on Tumblr and Pinterest, there's now <a href="http://stylesays.com/" target="_blank">StyleSays</a> -- a new fashion image sharing community that connects users’ favorite style images to purchasable content. It tags pictures of pretty outfits with links to purchasable items. Some might be the exact product and it could give you an affordable alternative.</p>
<p><strong>AT&amp;T Sucks</strong> If one of your New Year's resolutions is to ditch your phone provider once and for all, consider making a switch to T-Mobile. The company is now touting the results of its $4 billion commitment to improving service and says its reception in New York is better than ever. Neville Ray, the CTO for T-Mobile, said in a blog post that NYC customers "can also bring their unlocked AT&amp;T smartphones to T-Mobile and experience a significant speed boost on our network with most devices, while also saving up to $50/month compared to AT&amp;T."</p>
<p><strong>Old dog learning new tricks, etc.</strong> <a href="http://www.bluefinlabs.com">Bluefin Labs</a>, the social TV analytics company for advertisers, just added an important employee to its team. Scott Grunther, a former Nielsen executive, is joining the Bluefin team in 2013 as a senior vice president. He will also be the general manager of media products out of the company’s New York office. He's been in the industry for 20 years.</p>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s the First &#8216;Documentary&#8217; Compiled Using Footage from a Bunch of Google Glasses</title>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:48:33 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_62313" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="https://plus.google.com/+dvf/postshttps://plus.google.com/+dvf/posts"><img class="size-medium wp-image-62313" title="img_20120909_133551_259" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/img_20120909_133551_2591.jpeg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(Photo: Google+)</p></div></p>
<p>A few days ago we <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/09/even-hot-models-look-kind-of-dorky-in-google-glasses/">lamented</a> that even the models strutting down the runway at Diane von Furstenberg's fashion week show looked vaguely dorky in Google Glasses. Now, a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Pjl31cyDY&amp;feature=youtu.be">video</a> compiled from the footage taken by the models has been assembled and uploaded to YouTube. It's the first official video made entirely from clips recorded by a slew of real Google Glasses prototypes.</p>
<p><!--more-->Prior to this mini <a href="http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/columns/bibby-sowray/TMG9533125/New-York-Fashion-Week-springsummer-2013-DVF-get-techy-with-Google-Glass.html">documentary</a>, entitled "DVF: Through Glass," there was a 15 second video <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/first-video-taken-google-glasses-shared-795631">recorded</a> by one set of glasses worn by someone bouncing on a trampoline. And let's not forget the exhilarating live skydiving <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/06/27/project-glass-skydive-demo/">demo</a> at Google I/O. But this seems to be the first time a documentary has been recorded with the glasses by people outside the Google family.</p>
<p>Raw footage of Ms. von Furstenberg overlayed with funky music is spliced together with backstage images of employees prepping for the fashion show. The 3 minute 50 second video pulses with a voyeuristic undertone, the point-of-view shot giving it an almost otherworldly feeling, almost like you're spying on someone. At one point, a model's hair even begins to eclipse the frame. It's both fascinating and unsettling.</p>
<p>"All the footage you see here was filmed using only Glass, Google's latest technology that lets you capture moments from a unique, new perspective," reads the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Pjl31cyDY&amp;feature=youtu.be">description</a>. "See what happens when fashion and technology come together like you've never seen before."</p>
<p>The best part was undoubtedly seeing through the eyes of models as they take to the runway. It was almost like we were there ourselves, minus the perilously tall and undoubtedly uncomfortable high heels.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/30Pjl31cyDY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></p>
<p>Correction: A prior version of this article misstated that this was the first <em>ever </em>video shot with Google Glass. Our apologies to the Google nuts out there.</p>
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<p>A few days ago we <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/09/even-hot-models-look-kind-of-dorky-in-google-glasses/">lamented</a> that even the models strutting down the runway at Diane von Furstenberg's fashion week show looked vaguely dorky in Google Glasses. Now, a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Pjl31cyDY&amp;feature=youtu.be">video</a> compiled from the footage taken by the models has been assembled and uploaded to YouTube. It's the first official video made entirely from clips recorded by a slew of real Google Glasses prototypes.</p>
<p><!--more-->Prior to this mini <a href="http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/columns/bibby-sowray/TMG9533125/New-York-Fashion-Week-springsummer-2013-DVF-get-techy-with-Google-Glass.html">documentary</a>, entitled "DVF: Through Glass," there was a 15 second video <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/first-video-taken-google-glasses-shared-795631">recorded</a> by one set of glasses worn by someone bouncing on a trampoline. And let's not forget the exhilarating live skydiving <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/06/27/project-glass-skydive-demo/">demo</a> at Google I/O. But this seems to be the first time a documentary has been recorded with the glasses by people outside the Google family.</p>
<p>Raw footage of Ms. von Furstenberg overlayed with funky music is spliced together with backstage images of employees prepping for the fashion show. The 3 minute 50 second video pulses with a voyeuristic undertone, the point-of-view shot giving it an almost otherworldly feeling, almost like you're spying on someone. At one point, a model's hair even begins to eclipse the frame. It's both fascinating and unsettling.</p>
<p>"All the footage you see here was filmed using only Glass, Google's latest technology that lets you capture moments from a unique, new perspective," reads the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Pjl31cyDY&amp;feature=youtu.be">description</a>. "See what happens when fashion and technology come together like you've never seen before."</p>
<p>The best part was undoubtedly seeing through the eyes of models as they take to the runway. It was almost like we were there ourselves, minus the perilously tall and undoubtedly uncomfortable high heels.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='640' height='390' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/30Pjl31cyDY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></p>
<p>Correction: A prior version of this article misstated that this was the first <em>ever </em>video shot with Google Glass. Our apologies to the Google nuts out there.</p>
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		<title>Even Hot Models Look Kind of Dorky in Google Glasses</title>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:31:28 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A few months ago, following a cyborg attack in a Parisian McDonalds, we <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/07/cyborg-attack-in-parisian-mcdonalds-raises-complicated-questions-about-wearable-computing/">predicted</a> that Google would be the first to market with computer glasses, but that Apple would take its time perfecting a beautiful, sleek prototype that would automatically become the emblem for hipness everywhere. Now, it looks like Google is trying to head off that theory by incorporating the Project Glass prototype into a New York Fashion Week show. Face computers are super glam, you guys.</p>
<p><!--more-->Sergey Brin continued his whirlwind tour of "Look, wearable tech is totally swag!" by teaming up with fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. DVF <a href="https://plus.google.com/+dvf/postshttps://plus.google.com/+dvf/posts">published</a> a series of photos to her Google+ page yesterday showing models from her runway show donning color matching Project Glass prototypes. Models <a href="https://plus.google.com/107651756423687246963/posts/XmPMceaLvTA">recorded</a> video on the glasses while walking the runway, which DVF plans to turn into a short documentary that will <a href="https://plus.google.com/107651756423687246963/posts/gKs68S4xBsR">debut</a> on Thursday.</p>
<p>As it turns out, even beautiful models look a little silly in wearable tech--though we do hope when Project Glass <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/06/start-saving-your-pennies-google-glasses-are-coming-in-2014-says-sergey-brin/">hits</a> consumer markets in 2014, they're offered in that pretty salmon color.</p>
<p>Mr. Brin <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/09/09/google-glass-dvf-fashion-week/">reportedly</a> got a front row seat at the show, and even took a victory lap around the runway when it was over. It's no <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/06/google-hoping-youll-freefall-for-project-glass-stunt/">skydiving</a>, but we really hope someone recorded that moment.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few months ago, following a cyborg attack in a Parisian McDonalds, we <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/07/cyborg-attack-in-parisian-mcdonalds-raises-complicated-questions-about-wearable-computing/">predicted</a> that Google would be the first to market with computer glasses, but that Apple would take its time perfecting a beautiful, sleek prototype that would automatically become the emblem for hipness everywhere. Now, it looks like Google is trying to head off that theory by incorporating the Project Glass prototype into a New York Fashion Week show. Face computers are super glam, you guys.</p>
<p><!--more-->Sergey Brin continued his whirlwind tour of "Look, wearable tech is totally swag!" by teaming up with fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. DVF <a href="https://plus.google.com/+dvf/postshttps://plus.google.com/+dvf/posts">published</a> a series of photos to her Google+ page yesterday showing models from her runway show donning color matching Project Glass prototypes. Models <a href="https://plus.google.com/107651756423687246963/posts/XmPMceaLvTA">recorded</a> video on the glasses while walking the runway, which DVF plans to turn into a short documentary that will <a href="https://plus.google.com/107651756423687246963/posts/gKs68S4xBsR">debut</a> on Thursday.</p>
<p>As it turns out, even beautiful models look a little silly in wearable tech--though we do hope when Project Glass <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/06/start-saving-your-pennies-google-glasses-are-coming-in-2014-says-sergey-brin/">hits</a> consumer markets in 2014, they're offered in that pretty salmon color.</p>
<p>Mr. Brin <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/09/09/google-glass-dvf-fashion-week/">reportedly</a> got a front row seat at the show, and even took a victory lap around the runway when it was over. It's no <a href="http://betabeat.com/2012/06/google-hoping-youll-freefall-for-project-glass-stunt/">skydiving</a>, but we really hope someone recorded that moment.</p>
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		<title>Chelsea Clinton, Tech Advisor? The Former First Daughter Joins the Board of IAC</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_17937" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 230px"><img class="size-full wp-image-17937" title="220px-Chelsea_Clinton" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/220px-chelsea_clinton.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="304" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Board members say ay-oh! (via Wikimedia)</p></div></p>
<p>It looks like companies like College Humor, Vimeo, Match.com, and Newsweek/Daily Beast could soon be getting business advice from American royalty.</p>
<p>The <em>Financial Times</em> <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/94de1538-e888-11e0-8f05-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Z9X6Yg9a">reports</a> that 31-year-old Chelsea Clinton isn't too busy with her graduate studies at Oxford or work at the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative to join the board at digital media powerhouse IAC over at the "<a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/08/17/meet-blu-trumpet-the-first-chick-to-fly-out-of-iacs-hatch-labs/">big white frosty</a>" building on West 18th. She'll be the youngest member of IAC's board by seven years, joining <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576595344180113436.html">heavyweights</a> like Michael Eisner and Edgar Bronfman Jr., chairman of Warner Music Group or as we like to think of him, MIA's future father-in-law.</p>
<p>We'd also like to wish the former hedgie, who worked at both McKinsey and Avenue Capital, a warm welcome to startupland--and business <em>caz</em>. <!--more--></p>
<p>It seems the same whispers about a last name that opens doors have followed Ms. Clinton into the digital sphere. When she joined Avenue back in 2006, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> points out, "There was crowing about how Avenue  Capital founders Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner had both donated to Mrs.  Clinton's New York Senate re-election campaign."</p>
<p>In the case of IAC, the <em>Journal</em> notes that Barry Diller, now IAC's chairman, supported both Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign and Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid. The <em>FT</em> also points that Mr. Diller's wife often dresses both the ladies Clinton for public events. But there's another connection: Tina, who featured Hillary on her first covers for both <em>Talk </em>and <em>Newsweek</em> and succumbed to <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/why-america-needed-chelsea-clintons-wedding/60791/">nineties nostalgia</a> in the Daily Beast on the occasion of Chelsea's recent nuptials.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_17937" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 230px"><img class="size-full wp-image-17937" title="220px-Chelsea_Clinton" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/220px-chelsea_clinton.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="304" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Board members say ay-oh! (via Wikimedia)</p></div></p>
<p>It looks like companies like College Humor, Vimeo, Match.com, and Newsweek/Daily Beast could soon be getting business advice from American royalty.</p>
<p>The <em>Financial Times</em> <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/94de1538-e888-11e0-8f05-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Z9X6Yg9a">reports</a> that 31-year-old Chelsea Clinton isn't too busy with her graduate studies at Oxford or work at the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative to join the board at digital media powerhouse IAC over at the "<a href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/08/17/meet-blu-trumpet-the-first-chick-to-fly-out-of-iacs-hatch-labs/">big white frosty</a>" building on West 18th. She'll be the youngest member of IAC's board by seven years, joining <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576595344180113436.html">heavyweights</a> like Michael Eisner and Edgar Bronfman Jr., chairman of Warner Music Group or as we like to think of him, MIA's future father-in-law.</p>
<p>We'd also like to wish the former hedgie, who worked at both McKinsey and Avenue Capital, a warm welcome to startupland--and business <em>caz</em>. <!--more--></p>
<p>It seems the same whispers about a last name that opens doors have followed Ms. Clinton into the digital sphere. When she joined Avenue back in 2006, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> points out, "There was crowing about how Avenue  Capital founders Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner had both donated to Mrs.  Clinton's New York Senate re-election campaign."</p>
<p>In the case of IAC, the <em>Journal</em> notes that Barry Diller, now IAC's chairman, supported both Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign and Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential bid. The <em>FT</em> also points that Mr. Diller's wife often dresses both the ladies Clinton for public events. But there's another connection: Tina, who featured Hillary on her first covers for both <em>Talk </em>and <em>Newsweek</em> and succumbed to <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/why-america-needed-chelsea-clintons-wedding/60791/">nineties nostalgia</a> in the Daily Beast on the occasion of Chelsea's recent nuptials.</p>
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