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Michael Jones Gets Exit At Thing Labs

socalTECH

Michael Jones , CEO of MySpace and former founder of Userplane, has another exit under his belt today, as AOL announced it has acquired Thing Labs , a San Francisco maker of web-based, social software. Thing Labs makes the Brizzly web-based software for sharing and discovering content. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

socalTECH

Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. Blair Harrison: Frequency was borne out of a frustration of mine, which is having to visit many different places to consume video, from a combination of social networks, to blogs, to apps. What is Frequency?

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008.

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Map of VC Investments

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. in Computer Science.

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Inside the Realms of Ruin

TechCrunch LA

“The Ruin stirs, and the Five Realms rumble,” a now-archived web announcement read on Thursday morning. In 2006, a platform called FanLib raised $3 million in venture capital to launch a platform where copyright owners (like ViacomCBS, which owns “Star Trek”) could host fan fiction contests to engage fans.

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

Xconomy

Unlike many of its rivals, Sheik said Certona had raised a total of only $7 million in venture capital (in 2008) from ABS Ventures of Waltham, MA, and San Diego’s Express Ventures. We’ve been fairly capital-efficient in this fast-growth e-commerce space,” Sheik said. “It It wasn’t about raising multiple rounds and burning jet fuel.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. In 2006 we sold the company to a French services company. Irony, hey?).