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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, October 27, at UCLA. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

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MySpace Inks Ad Deal With Auditude, MTV Networks

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Los Angeles-based social networking site and online video advertising firm Auditude announced this morning that the two companies have partnered with MTV Networks to insert ads into user uploaded videos on MySpace. The technology then allows those content owners to insert advertising and attribution information into the video.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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Interview with Howard Marks, Start Engine

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Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place. We've been able to get a bunch of applications already through word of moth, from talks at different classes, and most recently at the UCLA Business School.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? Out of over every ten people who see the site, one or two are really gravitate or are attached to it. What does Anti-AgingGames do? There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What we've done, is we attract those writers to our site, and have a revenue model based on the content. That target market is huge, and includes sites like YouTube, you also have Revision3, and other sites doing short videos.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

and also to local advertisements. Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc. The Startonomics conference at UCLA Anderson business school, hosted by DealMaker Media, was a great event for the talks as well as the networking. Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson.

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