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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. The second ones are media brand and companies and we have several of those brands on our platform. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. What is uCast?

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. Every region needs its local media & events. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space. No Dave S. = Seattle has its patrons.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

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Between 2005 and 2008, there were lots of companies raising half a million, and selling for 15 million. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. True entrepreneurs always find a way to move the ball forward, without barriers. It's in the DNA of entrepreneurs.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often. compatible; …&#.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media. Because you throw away the ability to totally control your traffic from social media, and search engine traffic generated by social media as well.

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