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Citysearch Debuts Visual Guide Site, New iPhone App

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West Hollywood-based Citysearch has launched two new products today, including both a visual city guide, and a new iPhone app. Citysearch said its new Guides by Citysearch service is aimed at helping users easily find new places in major cities around the country, in a photo-centric way. READ MORE>>.

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CityGrid Media Buys BuzzLabs

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. CityGrid Media operates the Citysearch, Insider Pages and Urbanspoon web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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Factual Opens New API

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The new API makes it easier for software developers to correlate data from those multiple, different sites, creating in essence a "universal translator" for data between those services.

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Buzz Media Names Citron President

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Los Angeles-based Buzz Media , which operates a network of online media sites focused on celebrities and music, disclosed this morning that it has tapped former TMZ general manager Alan Citron as its new President. According to Buzz Media, Citron will oversee programming, marketing, engineering, and product development at the firm.

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Interview With Brian McCarthy, Dentistry.com

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To their credit, they were able to carve out an investment so we could develop this. They have a day job, running the existing business, and they then have to commit more time and effort into building Dentistry.com, to develop the technology, processes, and all we have to do. We are working with a team in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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Need A Job? Come To Idealab Job Fair!

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Bill Gross and Idealab have founded or advanced development of more than 75 companies including Overture Services, eSolar, UberMedia, CitySearch, Picasa and Internet Brands. Bill Gross will be on site to give a special welcome, and executives from Idealab’s companies will pitch their businesses to attendees.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. Ethan had pointed out to me that merchants were being barraged by “deal site” wanting to drive customers in the door but they didn’t have great tools to manage their customers.

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