socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

San Diego-based RealGifts has a new take on earning dollars from Facebook applications: allowing users to purchase real, tangible items from the popular social networking site.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The service is free to use and focuses on creating the best possible user-experience among the applications developed around the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API). They’ve recently been added to TweetDeck , a vastly popular AIR application for Twitter, as well as UberTwitter, a twitter Blackberry app.

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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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Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

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

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). People got their knickers in a twist when they saw people like Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble having advertisers and endorsing brands on their sites. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. Then came blogs. Just ask MySpace.

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