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JUNE 3, 2010

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. MetaMarkets.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

Although it is difficult to directly track the impact of these sites, the expanded exposure from these sites has certainly augmented my overall traffic. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. Google likes these entries, as evidenced by the significant organic traffic it consistently drives to them.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Aptera recently raised $24M from Idealab, Google, and a number of other backers for its composite, lightweight hybrid electric vehicles; Kinetix Motors is currently raising financing, according to its web site. The X PRIZE competition will begin in 2009, with winners awarded in 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

They are Starbucks, Dell, eBay, Google and Microsoft. Each of the top 25 newspapers in the United States declined in circulation in the first quarter of 2009, except for The Wall Street Journal, which had a gain of.06 Brands lagging in new media shrank by 6 percent. The change is wrenching and exhilarating. 06 percent. 06 percent.

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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. Founded in 2009 by Mike Dougherty (ex-TellMe) and Jateen Parekh (formerly a product lead on Amazon’s Kindle).

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm is a maker of mobile computing devices, including the Pixi and Pixi Plus; HP: “Our intent is to double down on WebOS”; helps HP compete in mobile computing with Apple, RIM, Google, and MSFT. But Google’s investment seems to be focused on supporting a payment platform that can support the Android ecosystem. LivingSocial.

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MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. our marketplace, you go to Fine Art America, join, and you get an online profile, much like a Facebook or Google Plus. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. building a web site for him.

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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. a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed.

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APRIL 5, 2012

The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist. Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. Michael Schneider: It's a combination of luck and timing, and great investors, really.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

The firm says nearly 20% of all brides now shop for or sell a gently used wedding dress online, compared with just 6% in 2009 and they firmly believe Recycled Bride is helping make the sales even more possible. Recycled Bride was founded in 2009 in Santa Monica, CA. TechZulu caught up with Recycled Bride and here is what we found!

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DECEMBER 9, 2009

Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google. WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. It's the hot item on the Internet for that moment in time.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? Use Google or one of the many other search engines to search for existing solutions to this problem. I’m going to start a website to offer this service!” Large and growing market.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. That realization set forth our current business strategy, which is to create a portfolio of vertical shopping sites which allow consumers to discover and be passionate about categories they are interested in.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, DataPop launched its initial Search Marketing application across Google, Microsoft and Yahoo late last year and leading marketers and agencies are seeing breakthrough results. (I went to bed at 2am at the hotel and several people were texted me to try and summon me back to the bar).

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

began life in 2009 with a lofty goal of reverse-engineering the human brain. Where self-driving technologies under development at big tech companies like Google (and at car-makers like Audi and Mercedes-Benz) must master the automotive rules of the road, including construction zones and ill-defined lanes, Brain Corp.’s Brain Corp.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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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. Johnson: We launched in April of 2009, so it's coming up on almost a year. That's how we're differentiating the site. We wanted to get out of travel, into everything.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Jeff Kupietzky: I think, like other folks, we had challenges at the end of 2008, and through 2009. Jeff Kupietzky: The notion is that there are now two primary upstream providers of search, Google and Yahoo. So, you really only have one primary competitor, which is Google. What do you mean when you talk about consolidation?

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

By Evan Britton Each day, millions of internet users post updates on a variety of social networking sites. Google has also taken notice of the real-time web and they have begun to mix real-time results into their engine. These are real-time results that Google have mixed in.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. You could just outspend.

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JULY 31, 2013

01% conversion rate again to the people who clicked over to the website from the YouTube video, that’s 185 new customers, 185 people who would have never thought to google search for a tampon service, who will now be signing up to spend the 15 bucks a month to get tampons delivered to their door. If we apply that.01% Artist: Kennedy.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

If you want to download the document I’ve made it available at my favorite document sharing site DocStoc). 2009 has been the worst year for M&A in a decade. Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. Your content gets to the share site just as it would with the Javascript, sometimes even faster. Also, make sure the image names here are the same ones you’re using.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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JULY 21, 2011

Rob Reed: I was doing social media strategy consulting from 2007 until 2009, what I would really characterize as Social Media 1.0. One way to think about the complexity, is right now, with Google Analytics, the origin of that data are multiple sources going to one web site. How did the company come about?

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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. Here’s how you can (could) integrate a URI shortener into your site’s architecture. Your site’s architecture may require a different approach.

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MARCH 6, 2014

This article wasn’t actually from a single interview, but the result of a couple of conversations with a co-founder of Rap Genius , the wildly profiled lyrics annotation site. Beginning with hip hop in 2009, they’ve since included different genre verticals into their model with rock, poetry, news, even bible.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting. We also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way. Don’t be shy. Go rant away. Thanks in advance!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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