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Demand Media Ties With Tyra Banks On Beauty, Fashion Site

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Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online media firm headed by Richard Rosenblatt, announced today that it has inked a partnership with celebrity model Tyra Banks , to create a new site focused on fashion and beauty. Financial details of the partnership between Banks and Demand Media were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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In a world of digital video, whats the best way to distribute and monetize that streaming video content? San Diego-based uCast Global (www.ucastglobal.com), backed by Gary Winnick, is looking to tackle that entire area of content distribution, and is led by startup veteran Dr. Kanaan Jemili.

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Mobile Experience 2.0

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After years of dialog on mobile convergence, what has actually converged on the mobile platform is the high quality experience, spurred by innovations in Media Content (Video, Music, Movies, T.V.), This forum brings together media companies, application developers, device manufacturers, networking and O.S.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media.

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Interview with Hamilton Chan, PaperLinks

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Our application is a QR code reader, where you can read any QR code--not just one created through our platform. Rather than just showing QR coded content inside a web browser, we pull users into our app, which is a much richer experience. Was it difficult going from print to mobile application development?

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia).

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.