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MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Although Worlize may be news to some they have been around for just over a year and they are based right here in Los Angeles. Worlize is a user-created social gaming and chat platform for Facebook and social networks including Twitter, MySpace and OpenSocial.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based Hipgeo , the develope rof a location-aware, smartphone applications service focused on recording and sharing your day with others, said this morning that it has launched its iPhone app. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site run by J.R. According to Lunch.com, the new feed can be added to blogs, personal sites, or elsewhere to help users promote their content. Tags: lunch social networking questions answers reviews ratings feed. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 18, 2010

More Visible Networking? Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. Tony: I personally am torn by choices around Networking Events in Los Angeles – you can go to something almost every night.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". In "The Social Network" Denise portrays Gretchen, the attorney of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. What is Near Networks? I imagine it must be difficult to scale this and build out a network of filmmakers?

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JULY 30, 2009

Los Angeles-based EQAL , said this morning at Twiistup that the firm is launching a new, social publishing tool it is calling Umbrella, focused on independent producers, celebrity talent, and online personalities. Tags: eqal lonelygirl15 content video hollywood studio social networking software publishing.

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MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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JUNE 4, 2009

Los Angeles-based Passenger , which develops online communities for brands, said Thursday that the firm is powering a new private online community for NYSE Euronext (NYX). Tags: passenger online social networking software nyse euronext. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

In Los Angeles, it seems like everyone has either a script or a startup idea in their back pocket. Lisa Hennessy: I come from a network television background, and my two business partners are from a digital background. content toms employment hiring television network jobbing dream hennessy lisa' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

Los Angeles-based Shopit, a developer of online shopping widget software, said today that it has raised $2.5M Shopit develops software which can be embedded in social networking profiles, blog pages, and on other web pages for selling products. in a Series B funding. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based Sodahead , the online question and answer site backed by Mission Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels, said Monday that it has tied together in a strategic partnership with Technorati. Technorati is an online site which provides a way to search and browse blog posts. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based JuiceCaster, a provider of a mobile social networking application, said Wednesday that the firm has inked a deal with Photobucket, the online photo sharing site owned by Fox Interactive Media. JuiceCaster said that Photobucket will also be a featured channel on its flash player. READ MORE>>

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JANUARY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based mEgo, which operates a service which allows users to create a portable, online profile or "avatar," has raised $2.5M in an angel round, the firm's co-CEO, Julia Johnston, told us Wednesday evening. The angels involved in the new funding round were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 10, 2009

Los Angeles-based online production firm EQAL disclosed today that it has launched the web site it is codeveloping with CBS, HarpersGlobe.com , the companion site to the new CBS mystery Harper's Island.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Los Angeles-based Uber, the online social networking web site run by former Friendster CEO Scott Sassa, has shut down. Uber developed software used to upload, organize, and share content through a free web site; the site also provided photo galleries, slide shows, videos, and blogs. READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

Los Angeles-based ClipBlast, a developer of video search tools and software, said Wednesday that KickApps will integrate the firm's video search products into its platform. KickApps develops social media applications used by brands and companies to create their own social networking and community web sites.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

On the other hand, you might blog your answers and post a link. Her other suggestions around blogging, LinkedIn, twitter use pretty well align with how I think about it. Tom Humbarger had some great suggestions in his post Visible Networking with Tony Karrer – Los Angeles Social Media Starters.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based EQAL said this morning that it has signed up 'CSI' franchise creator Anthony E. EQAL will be in charge of the book's web site , which will launch later this year featuring a blog, social networking features, audio files, videos, photos, and more. Zuiker on a new multimedia project. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. BLOG: [link] LINKEDIN: [link] TWITTER: [link] What's a phone booth? Maybe you can blog about that?

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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. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. in Computer Science.

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MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. We have been really excited to be part of the startup community here in Los Angeles.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Los Angeles has seen its own startup scene develop with Silicon Beach, which stretches between Santa Monica and Playa Vista. Some of the standout technology innovators include: ClippPR : ClippPR provides businesses with a simple way to track any type of online activity — press releases, videos, blog mentions, etc.

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MAY 4, 2011

One of the stealthiest Los Angeles startups to emerge in the last few months has been Namesake (www.namesake.com), headed by Brian Norgard and co-founded by Dan Gould. We started with the initial idea of building vertical, B-to-B social environments, and soon figured out that was a terrible idea. And, it is a social network.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2007

On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. And there are tons of ways to use social networks. This is something we've discussed before in: Entreprenuer Network and Events and Networking in Los Angeles.

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MAY 16, 2013

Article after article points out that Los Angeles is on its way to becoming one of the most robust startup communities in the United States. It is meant to bring everyone together so that they can learn, network and leave with the sense that they now belong to a family of entrepreneurs, all trying to make LA a startup hub.

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MAY 25, 2011

Los Angeles-based Altly , the latest startup of Dmitry Shapiro , the founder of Veoh and former CTo of MySpace Music, has officially thrown down the gauntlet, saying in a blog post this week that it there is a need for an alternative to Facebook--and the firm is going to create that alternative.

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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. in Computer Science.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks. It also supports blogs.

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JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. I shall be looking to replicate this in Los Angeles. I’ve already started the business modeling.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable. Find avenues to network with these folks.

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MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. There are so many social networking sites, how do you define what's relevant?

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JULY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Flipagram (www.flipagram.com) has created a potent and wildly viral mobile app, which combines photos, music, and video to create addictive, engaging mini slideshows of your life. Everyone now has too many pictures on their phones and on their devices, and it's relaly too much to put into the moment sharing networks.

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JULY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Flipagram (www.flipagram.com) has created a potent and wildly viral mobile app, which combines photos, music, and video to create addictive, engaging mini slideshows of your life. Everyone now has too many pictures on their phones and on their devices, and it's relaly too much to put into the moment sharing networks.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. is based in Los Angeles. A lot of the controversy revolves around the notion that Twitterers are more part of a social network than content creators. How does Ad.ly

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MARCH 29, 2012

What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? For a number of high profile brands, it's by using the software and services of Los Angeles-based PromoJam (www.promojam.com), which just announced a round of funding to accelerate it efforts last week from Golden Seeds and the Band of Angels.

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