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AllSay: Using Mobile Apps To Engage Users With Decisions, with Geoff Campbell

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How do you combine the world of online and mobile apps with the world of community and political decisions and discourse? One thing with AllSay, is it looke like Buzzfeed did in the early days. Editors use Buzzfeed and read the news, to find proposals and decisions, and use the news as a source. We''d like to change that.

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Render Media: Creating A Digital Publisher In The Social Age

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The people who we our content and videos in are essentially connected, mobile, have their phone with them all the time. Everyone carries their phone around, and 70 to 75 percent of the traffic on our site is all mobile. Many publishers have been wringing their hands over declining CPMs, shift from desktop to mobile, etc.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Best Reads for Casual Friday: Big Tech Businesses Gets Political

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Time to curl up in your cubicle, pop open one of these in-depth, entertaining reads, and catch up on some of what you missed during a busy week. You’ve made it to Friday. This week we’re taking a look at all the political stories that are coming out of the tech world.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

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It doesn’t matter who you are; you can be writing long-form journalism for Rolling Stone, doing advertorials for BuzzFeed, or you can be writing the menu for the restaurant down the street. Since almost everyone has a mobile device nowadays and an app is available for almost every news media agency. Where do you see mobile going?

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. Or perhaps you think Donald Trumps assessment that BuzzFeed is a “ Failing pile of garbage is correct?” Others are skeptical, “Ha! Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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