socalTECH

JULY 19, 2012

Los Angeles investor Baroda Ventures , the venture capital arm of David Bohnett, has re-upped on online fashion and e-commerce site Fab.com , in a big, $105M third round of funding for that site. Baroda has been an investor in Fab since its seed funding back in June of 2010. Bohnett is the founder of Geocities.com.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 4, 2010

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 -- Social Media for Business - Part ll: Private Networks. Social Media sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter enhance communication and foster a sense of community. the answer - Private Social Networks. the answer - Private Social Networks. TechAmerica.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2012

As Mountain View-based social networking site Facebook hits the market today, in what is the largest tech initial public offering in history, one question is if it will spur what has, so far, been a lackluster IPO market for Southern California technology firms. last night, at the very high range of an already raised $34.00

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socalTECH

MAY 12, 2011

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday that online virtual world site Playdom, Inc. The FTC said in statement that "whether you are a virtual world, a social network, or any other interactive site that appeals to kids, you owe it to parents and their children to provide proper notice and get proper consent."

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 31, 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 -- Social Media Marketing. The German American Business Association (GABA) and Epic States, invite you to an exciting workshop and panel discussion focusing on the social media industry followed by a reception at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. German American Business Association.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Harrison created one of the Internet's first video search sites, FastTV, and also ran IFILM, which he sold to Viacom in 2006. 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. What is Frequency?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

As I prepare for my role as emcee in June for Convergence 2010 , I began to look back at how I got involved in radio. For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. OSN 101 – Online Social Networking news and tips. We built unique websites for each show.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. Alex Capecelatro: Hyphos is a social discovery platform. What is Hyphos?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2012

ExplorerB2B is a free to join exclusive network of experts who share information that matters to you and make sure you expand your professional network, interact with a relevant audience and present your expertise. We launched the first publicly available (German) Beta Version of exploreB2B at the end of 2010. How does it work?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 16, 2010

This past Monday, April 12 2010, Network Hippo relaunched their site to the public. Network Hippo is a social CRM that simplifies and organizes a users contacts across multiple social networks. Currently Network Hippo allows you to sync up with Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and linkedIn.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. Peer-to-peer lending service; started on FaceBook; claim to own 79% of the US peer lending market in March 2010 with a whopping $8,664,750.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. Michael Kleist: We started in 2010. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content.

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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 The Social Web Challenges of 2010: A List What are the challenges with the social Web today?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). uh, hello!

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network,” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. We have a job link at our site at: [link].”. How do you stand out?”. Beer or wine?

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. We're very interested in the gaming space, and how it ties into social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Hone in on sites, tools, and applications your target audience is using. According to the “ Small Business Marketing Forecast 2012 ” from Ad-ology, Social media for small business marketing has reached its tipping point. Just ten percent say they will not use social media in 2012, down from 24 percent for 2011 and 39 percent for 2010.

Social Media 93

Social Media Media Startup Tips 93

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup. Now, there are hundreds of millions of web sites and hundreds of billions of web pages. How do you stand out?”. I try hard to find that balance.”. Beer or wine? Guinness beer and red wine.

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Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. We're very interested in the gaming space, and how it ties into social networks.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Hone in on sites, tools, and applications your target audience is using. Turn your social media efforts into profit, rather than just another expense. According to the “ Small Business Marketing Forecast 2010 ” from Ad-ology, lead generation is the biggest benefit of social networking for U.S. Marty Zwilling.

Social Media 85

Social Media Media Startup Content 85

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars - Steve Blank , November 24, 2010 When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. I was there from when the company launched until March of 2010, when I left to start MomentFeed. That was in addition to the social media work I'd done.

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We've been in discussions with news organizations to use the platform, including with large organizations and journalism sites.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2010

May 31st, 2010 is officially dubbed Quit Facebook Day. The site gives you a few alternatives to Facebook as well. Giving examples and showing you some advantages you get from joining specialized social networking sites is what QuitFacebookDay.com is all about. I'm hearing conflicting reports. Just do it!

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Sites Social Network Tips Writing 40

SoCal Delicious

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. Share Buttons Work… In A Way Share buttons on your post help your content reach a greater audience by creating easy channels to social networks.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

It is the world´s leading ridesharing network, transporting over 1 million people each month. Our original German site, mitfahrgelegenheit.de , was founded as a student project in 2001. The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ). What is Carpooling.com?

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Training Marketing Competition Platform 82

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. USA Angel Investment Network.

Startup 135

Startup Keiretsu Platform Invest 135

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” The site features running commentary and visual diagrams on the idiosyncrasies of fatherhood, parenting missteps and his own adjustment to having children.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

It was founded back in 2010 by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi of Venture Hacks , which is also a great place to visit for startup advice. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels. USA Angel Investment Network.

Angel 96

Angel Keiretsu Invest Networking 96

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. The buzz words of SXSW Interactive 2010: cloud computing, social, on-demand, sharing, collaboration, Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, monetization, Startup. . Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets. Ben Huh, Cheezburger Network.

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