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    Yesterday, Rapleaf and Sun Microsystems sponsored the first symposium dedicated to exploring the social graph and its impact on future businesses and consumers. Over one hundred of the top thought leaders, executives, and experts on the social graph attended the all-day event at Sun Microsystem’s Menlo Park campus to discuss research on the social graph and its applications in retail, marketing, and social media.

    Topics covered included the following:

    • Using the social graph to optimize search and ad revenue
    • Making better decisions about consumer fraud and risk
    • Providing consumers with a social shopping experience
    • Reaching and engaging target audiences better
    • Social graph theory
    • Moving beyond traditional social networking business models

    Check out the Social Graph Symposium website for more information.

    Click here for a copy of the Social Graph Symposium readout.

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    Below is a full list of participants:

    • Michel Adar – Real Time Analytics Architect at Oracle
    • Chris Alden – CEO at Six Apart
    • Alex Algard – CEO of WhitePages
    • Sam Altman – CEO of Loopt
    • Pano Anthos – CEO of Hangout Industries
    • Samir Arora – CEO of Glam Media
    • Adam Bain – President of Audience Network at Fox Interactive Media
    • Ed Baker – CEO of Demigo
    • Max Bardon – President and COO of WhitePages
    • James Baty – VP and CTO of Global Sales and Services at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    • Tom Bedecarre – CEO of AKQA
    • Michael Berkley – CEO of SplashCast
    • Barak Berkowitz – Fmr Chairman and CEO of Six Apart
    • Gina Bianchini – CEO of Ning
    • Jean Bolot – Head of Applied Research at Sprint
    • Jeff Bonforte – CEO of Xobni
    • Mike Bradley – Director of Solutions Development at CyberSource
    • Lutz Braum – Director of Engagement Marketing at Paypal
    • Ted Burns – VP Product at 4INFO
    • Adam Caplan – President of Super Rewards
    • Jed Carlson – COO and Co-Founder of ReverbNation
    • Ninan Chacko – CEO of PR Newswire
    • Kevin Chou – CEO of Watercooler
    • Stephen Coggeshall – CTO of ID Analytics
    • Greg Dale – CTO of Comscore
    • Jason Devitt – CEO of Skydeck
    • Eric di Benedetto – Investor at Active Starts
    • Andre Edelbrock – CEO of Ethoca
    • Konrad Feldman – CEO of Quantcast
    • Matt Flannery – CEO of Kiva
    • Tad Fordyce – Global Head of Information Products at VISA
    • Alex Fowler – Director, Health Industries Advisory at PricewaterhouseCoopers
    • Jim Fowler – CEO of Jigsaw
    • Andy Frawley – President, Digital Services at Epsilon
    • Albert Gadbut – CEO of AcquireWeb
    • Louis Gagnon – SVP Global Consumer Product at Monster
    • Sheldon Gilbert – CEO of Proclivity Systems
    • Russell Glass – CEO of Bizo
    • Dwight Gorall – VP Emerging Business at MyLife (Reunion)
    • Michael Gorman – Global Digital Strategy Leader at Acxiom
    • Mike Goslin – VP Product Development at Hangout Industries
    • Joe Greenstein – CEO of Flixster
    • Eric Haller – VP Strategy & Marketing at Experian
    • Jeff Hammerbacher – Chief Scientist & VP Product at Cloudera
    • Mike Hart – Director of Engineering, API and Community at NetFlix
    • Kevin Hartz – CEO of Eventbrite
    • Shawndra Hill – Professor at Wharton School (UPenn)
    • Auren Hoffman – CEO of Rapleaf
    • Bradley Horowitz – VP Product Management at Google
    • Curtis Hougland – CEO of Attention PR 8
    • Ken Howery – Managing Partner at Founders Fund
    • Jonathan Hsu – CEO of 24/7 Real Media
    • Joel Jewitt – VP Business Development of Rapleaf
    • Kirthi Kalyanam – J.C. Penney Research Professor at Santa Clara University
    • Amit Kapur – Fmr COO of Myspace
    • Jon Karl – VP Business Development and Co-Founder of Iovation
    • Niall Kennedy – Founder and President of Hat Trick Media
    • Brian Knapp – COO of Loopt
    • Erik Kokkonen – VP at CBS Interactive
    • Mark Kovscek – SVP at VivaKi, Publicis Groupe
    • John Kubo – CIO of Wet Seal
    • Andrew Lauter – CTO of Accertify
    • Tara Lemmey – CEO of LENS Ventures
    • Jeremy Liew – Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners
    • Benjamin Ling – Director of Partnerships, Content, and Platforms at YouTube
    • Richard Ling – General Partner at Rembrandt Venture Partners
    • Gretchen Littlefield – President of TRIPLEX
    • Todd Lowdon – EVP of Strategic Alliances and Product Marketing at infoGroup
    • Om Malik – Founder of GigaOm
    • Kevin Marks – OpenSocial Developer Advocate at Google
    • Paul Martino – CEO of Aggregate Knowledge
    • Curt Marvis – President of Digital Media at Lionsgate
    • Marissa Mayer – VP Search Products & User Experience at Google
    • Dave McClure – FF Angel Investor at Founders Fund
    • Jager McConnell – Director of Product Marketing at Salesforce
    • Patrick McKenna – President of HighRidge Global
    • Bill McKiernan – CEO of CyberSource
    • James Mendelsohn – VP of Corporate Strategy at Capital One
    • Chris Michel – Managing Director of Nautilus Ventures
    • Rosemarie Montroy – CMO of Direct Media
    • Lisa Moore – SVP Business Development at Direct Media
    • Dave Morin – Senior Platform Manager at Facebook
    • Zaydoon Munir – Global Data Officer at Experian Marketing Services
    • Bassel Ojjeh – SVP Strategic Data Solutions at Yahoo!
    • Laurent Pacalin – CMO of FICO
    • Jay Parikh – SVP of Engineering at Ning
    • DJ Patil – Chief Scientist at LinkedIn
    • Joe Paulsen – SVP & GM of Integrated Marketing Services at Experian Marketing Services
    • Jan Pedersen – Chief Scientist of Live Search at Microsoft
    • Barney Pell – CEO of Powerset
    • Peter Pham – CEO of BillShrink
    • Joel Pulliam – VP Product Development at Clearspring Technologies
    • Keith Rabois – Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Slide
    • Scott Radeztsky – Chief Technologist, Amercias Technical Sales at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    • Arvind Rangaswamy – Professor at Penn State
    • Vaughn Rhodes – VP Search Products at MyLife (Reunion)
    • John Ripa – Data Products Group Leader at Acxiom
    • Marc Ruxin – EVP and Chief Innovation Officer at McCann
    • Jessica Schell – SVP Strategy at NBC Universal Digital Media
    • Sonja Schindeler- VP Fraud at ACI Worldwide
    • Robert Scoble – Managing Director at Rackspace
    • Dave Selinger – CEO of RichRelevance
    • Danny Shader – CEO of Kwedit
    • Premal Shah – President of Kiva
    • Clara Shih – Author of The Facebook Era
    • Cory Siddens – Sr. Product Manager of Risk at CyberSource 9
    • Joseph Smarr – Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo
    • Marc Smith – Chief Social Scientist at Telligent Systems
    • Vivek Sodera – Co-Founder of Rapleaf
    • David Spitz – Group-Wide Strategy and Business Development, Digital at WPP
    • John Stanford – Principal Field Technologist and Sr. Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    • Seth Sternberg – CEO of Meebo
    • Chris Stevens – VP Marketing at SimpleTuition
    • Charlie Stryker – CEO of Venture Development Center
    • Mike Svatek – VP of Product Strategy at Bazaarvoice
    • Michael Tanne – EVP Business Development & Partner Products at MyLife (Reunion)
    • Rick Thompson – Chairman and Co-Founder of Playdom
    • Jeffrey Tinsley – CEO of MyLife (Reunion)
    • Greg Tseng – CEO of Tagged
    • Jessica Vascellaro – Reporter at Wall Street Journal
    • Kevin Walsh – SVP of Analysis at Advanta
    • Omar Wasow – Co-Founder of Blackplanet
    • Duncan Watts – Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! & Professor at Columbia
    • Andreas Weigend – Professor at Stanford/UC Berkeley
    • Michael Wolf – Fmr COO and President of MTV Networks

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    1. Rapleaf, Social Graph Research, and Online Friendships in Latest BusinessWeek
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    3. Mashable Article: How Companies Are Using Social Media Data

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