Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 4, 2010

Looking back at 2009 we had our ups and downs within the industry but the need to innovate, produce amazing content and the creation of great gadgets still remained. The Best of 2009: Interviews: Interview with Microsoft's First Blogger: Don Box. broadwayallday : The Man Behind The 50 Cent Web Empire. 0: All Web Leads.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The content comes from other places. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Most apps are about socialization of content, and displaying different media in those apps, and sending out some push notifications, so it really didn't make sense to make that all from scratch. The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist. Our apps do that extremely well.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 1, 2009

I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.

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JUNE 8, 2009

According to RotoHog, it will build free and paid online fantasy games for football, basketball, hockey, golf and motor sports for Sporting News, to be featured on the publication's web site. RotoHog said it will begin providing the games, starting with football, in late summer 2009. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 6, 2009

According to RotoHog, it will operate a fantasy game for the tour, which will be available through AVP's web site. RotoHog said that the 2009 AVP Fantasy Challenge will launch in mid-March, with prizes for both short-term contest and full seasons; AVP will cross promote the fantasy game at events, online, and in its broadcasts.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based magnify360, a provider of software for personalizing and optimizing web content, has scored a win with virtual world provider ICYou. The firms said that the virtual world is set for launch in winter of 2009. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed by the companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 19, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- Using Social Media to Market Your Business. Millions of people are creating content for the social Web. San Diego Venture Group. Special Keynote Headliner: Guy Kawasaki. Resistance to social media is futile. Your competitors are already there. Your customers have been there for a long time.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Coming off a very successful exit with Networks in Motion at the end of 2009, 2010 has been a very exciting year for several of my companies, Socialvibe, 2tor, Leadpoint, Webvisible and Impact Radius. Using the social web to fill excess capacity that exists in nearly every business was one of the best uses of the web that I've seen.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. It was user generated content for travel, but back in 1999, before we'd really seen the movement toward user generated content. How long has Lunch.com been running?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. What is Sendgrid?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The emergence of a new era of technologies, collectively known as Web 3.0, Also known as the semantic web or linked data, web 3.0 is a web in which data is linked to allow for more meaningful, actionable insight to be extracted. Put your digital audio content up for sale with AudioMicro, simply and securely.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Time will tell. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Provider of real-time data and predictive analytics for web site publishers. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. Mobile gifting service.

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JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. We were in closed beta for a while, and launched in August of 2009. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended.

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JULY 23, 2010

We started that in 2006, and sold it to Chicken Soup For The Soul in 2009. That started in a very small way on ThisNext last month, when we started publishing our own content and editorial for the first time. That content reflects our focus towards women. What was it that drove you to focus on developing your own content?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

Google Talk Chatback a text chat widget for Web publishers allowed websites to embed a Google Talk widget so that they could engage with their visitors. Some may not remember Google Video, the service stopped taking uploads in May 2009 but still has hosted content and a number of users.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. They build web solutions for venues and give them to the venues for free in exchange for keeping their ticket service fees. It is no wonder web content players with large audiences are all inking deals with them now.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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MAY 7, 2012

and photographer is an online web presence and an order fulfillment partner. AS I was working my engineering job, I got obsessed with programming and building a business for the web. building Fine Art America in 2006 as a part time project, and launched the web site in 2007. building a web site for him. I figured there.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Gregg Champion: I had been a vice president of development at ManiaTV, a Gen-Y content site. We do share resources, in terms of if someone needs web help at Champion, we might borrow guys from the web, or if we need something for video, we'll go over to the video folks at Champion. Talk a bit about your previous experience?

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MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. Is this installed software, or web technology? Brandon Hance: It's all web-based technology, and software we've build in-house. Thanks, and good luck!

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site. Zoomorama was a finalist at the Microsoft BizSpark event at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. We launched it with KNX on March 21st, 2009. We post content from our show on blogs including show notes and tips and tricks. .&#

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Before Iconfinder I was working as a web designer and front-end developer, next to studying computer science and business administration. Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). From 2007 to 2009 I added a lot of icons and made minor improvements. on your hard drive in PNG-format.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. I took a little bit of time off, then started working on Frequency in the middle of 2009. You helped define video on the web with iFilm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2011

According to the 2009 Tribalization of Business Study by Deloitte Development, one third of all online communities now launched by businesses fail to engage even a hundred participants. Engage customers with relevant and valuable content. A new book by David L. Connect to the customer in your communication.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

Cunningham’s current business, a marketing agency, Polar Unlimited in Toronto, had expanded in growth through the last decade by embracing social media and web 2.0. They specialized in content creation. Like Gary Vaynerchuk, Cunningham built the family business 10 fold through creating branded web content with a viral touch.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Part of what we do differently, is we leverage original content and breaking news as a hook to get into the site, then quickly get into engaging applications, such as localized events, original videos, mobile apps, fantasy/reality TV leagues, and more. How have you managed the high cost of creating content? We've done two things.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

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. and SVP, Branded Content & Audience Creation at nitetime.net.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Tweet its URI (not shortened - message incl.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

April 24, 2009. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities, content strategies and monetization schemes in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries. The awards are presented to individuals and companies that have made.

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APRIL 16, 2010

I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college. After starting CheapCheapCheap to understand the consumer behavior and trends, I decided to get into the hyperlocal area in 2009. Certain people might like certain deals, and not others, and people end up opting-out when they don't see content they like.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener Posted on 30 December, 2009 This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. You need to take care of errors yourself.

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