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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

socalTECH

If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? I ran that between 2001 and 2008, and then left to start what has become PublishThis.

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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. Then fans would be tasked with writing their own stories, submitting them to the Realms of Ruin universe by minting them as NFTs on the Solana blockchain. But Muir isn’t secretive that she got her start writing fan fiction.

Writing 196
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Interview with Tom Allanson, PerfectForms

socalTECH

PerfectForms is a platform for business users to create web applications, to provide visibility to processes, and to report on information collected. In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. How did the company start?

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. A true Internet Pioneer, by 2008, Kevin had already founded or co-founded two Unicorns in his own right, DoubleClick (sold to Google $3.1 billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3 billion).

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

socalTECH

My partner is a documentarian and reports for the New York Times, Time, and Newsweek, and was given a story to write about for the New York Times, about the sounds that fish make , for their Science section. It ran in April of 2008. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places.

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

Tech Zulu Event

Coincident has created a platform that will allow storytellers and producers to create robust second screen stories on the fly that incorporate video, images and other web content. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore. Coincident.TV

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App). I will write about some of these topics soon. That is conformity.

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