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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

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To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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What is a Content Delivery Network and What Types of Businesses Should Leverage It?

Southern California Edison Blog

A CDN hosts website assets, such as HTML code and pages, and content, such as images and videos, in geographic locations that are closest to users, streamlining data transfer for faster load times. . What Types of Companies Benefit from CDN Traffic Transportation Services? . Read More: Best Network Setups for Media Content Delivery.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com). What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company?

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. At Spin Media, we tried to do that ourselves, but that really sucked up product and development resources, who really should have been working on building the user experience, rather than ads.

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Jetpack Grows In New York

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Santa Monica-based rich media advertising technology developer Jetpack is expanding in New York, saying this week that it has opened up a new office New York City, and hired a new VP in the location. Jetpack said it has named Jeremy Carlin as Vice President, Business Development, to head up the company's East Coast operations.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing.

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. Talk about Nix Hydra, and what the game company is working on? How did the company start? They also like to show off their eggs on social media, on places like Instagram, and dress their eggs up in all sorts of fun costumes.