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Sony Releases The Interview Online On YouTube, Xbox, Google Play

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Sony Pictures has released The Interview online, available for streaming, on YouTube , Google Play , Google Play, Xbox Video , and on its own website, seetheinterview.com , in a surprise Christmas gift to North Korea. theinterview youtube xbox google play hollywood censorship hacking hackers north korea content streaming'

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood].

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

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This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

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Anne Walls and John Singleton are co-founders of WordHustler (www.wordhustler.com), a local Hollywood startup looking to help writers connect with publishers. In terms of the market, we cover everything, but the big areas are contests and publications of every kind, literary agents, and also some Hollywood agents.

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A Tale of Two Pitches

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. A few weeks ago I sat through two very contrasting presentations and wrote this blog post right afterward. But we talked much more broadly about Google, Twitter and Facebook. He had spent many years at Yahoo!

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. There was a recent study which showed that adding a video makes it 53 times more likely that you'll have a Google first page search result.

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Interview with Peter Csathy, CREATV Media

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Yahoo is on the block�I just wrote a piece on my blog with data points that reflect that�and you can see all of the activity happening, as I anticpated, in media and technology consolidation. Google has been a media company for quite some time, but you look at Facebook, and you absolutely know they are becoming a media company.

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