Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2012

GraphEffect today unveiled the latest version of its social network for marketers with an open API for developers. GraphEffect is a collaboration platform for social marketers which had only been available to large marketing partners including American Express, Toyota, Estee Lauder, Clorox, and Samsung. Venture Funding.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

San Diego-based Rippol , a startup which is looking to use social networking information to help users discover new videos and online shows, has quietly rolled out a new "lightweight" version of its site, and has removed requirements to login and register with the site to view videos. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace reports today that it has rolled out a new profile and theme gallery, to help with "cleaning things up a bit" on the site. Tags: myspace profile socail network theme design. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Beverly Hills-based MySpace , the online social networking site, is set to debut a new new site design and logo, the firm said late last night. As part of the redesign, MySpace has changed over its logo, and will center its web site on "bubbling up" fresh content of interest to users. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop. Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 7, 2012

Rarely do we come upon a website or web applcaitions that truly sifts through all the junk and curates the most influential and authoritative source to give to useful and value content…not spam. The team behind Champagne, Illinois startup and newly relaunched PickDeck is a solid core of engineers, researchers, and designers with PhDs.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2010

Brian McKelvey: We're building a virtual world, which attaches to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and all the social networks. It's built on a gaming platform, and is a way for users to create their own content and portions of that world. What's the idea behind Worlize? How did the firm come about? What's your background?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Developments like live streaming, social media and more have made the stars of today more relatable and more easily reachable than those of yesteryear. They dominate the media, have accrued millions of fans on social networks and have branched into retail, fashion, production and more.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

The ARPANET, as it was called back then, was designed by government, industry and academia so scientists and academics could access each other’s computing resources and trade large research files, saving time, money and travel costs. That’s how the Internet was conceived and nurtured. We are currently still suffering from those shifts.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2011

alleging "false designation of origin and unfair competition" over the phrase "Memory Lane". United Online shifted Classmates into the nostalgic content market in February, as adoption of social networking sites like Facebook made the firm's prior business model irrelevant. The suit was filed by Memory Lane Inc.,

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

And investing in content companies won’t return money! Costs of product on YouTube content is literally 99% cheaper than traditional TV and; Distribution of content can now go viral and can predictably distributed via social networks. For once content is becoming like selling clothes on Gilt Groupe.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What special data, content, APIs, etc. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Content access controls? How do you measure success?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What special data, content, APIs, etc. How concerned are we about design for mobile? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Content access controls? How do you measure success?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

What Quora has done is wrap social networking around Q&A with the more clever next-gen UX I’ve seen. I wrote the following answer: “I have always believed that UGC (user generated content) website users fall into three categories that follow the 1/9/90 rule. They are there to ingest content. Don’t.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

It''s a social network for world trade, kind of a combo between Alibaba and LinkedIn. We''ve now reached critical mass in content, and in Asia we''re number three in the amount of information on products and suppliers online. In 2011, we built our site, and in 2012, last year, we started getting content.

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socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

The firm said it is targeting hosting, SaaS, social network, content distribution networks, and cloud computing companies with the hardware. The firm's technology is based on software research at Caltech, originally designed to accelerate file transfers over the Internet2.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. Alex Capecelatro: Hyphos is a social discovery platform. What is Hyphos?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

That said, Apple will remain a closed system designed to drive media consumption through a closed iTunes system and a take a toll for media distribution. Thus you see television manufacturers rushing to create content ecosystems, app platforms, TV OS’s and Internet offerings. The device itself will have no storage.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

To start, New Media Expo (NMX) is the first and only industry-wide conference, tradeshow and media event dedicated to blogging, podcasting, social media, social networking, online video, music, Internet TV and radio. Simply put, if you want to get in front of influential online content creators, this is the place to be.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

According to Kyla Brennan, founder & CEO of HelloSociety, “Pinterest is undeniably one of the most exciting social networks to emerge recently.”. Our goal is to design effective marketing campaigns that are a natural fit with the Pinterest community and actually enhance the user experience of organic discovery,” Brennan added.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Today's interview with with Rajeev Kapur , Chairman and Chief Wala, Greenwala (www.greenwala.com), a recently launched social networking site focused on green/sustainable topics. I felt that a social networking media company was the best place to be, because I wanted to learn form other people, not companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 7, 2014

What better place for New Media content creators to network, learn, geek out on gear the most amazing gear in the world? Of course we will have complimentary wi-fi allowing you to post to your social networks from the NMX New Media Lounge. Road 2 NAB. Road 2 NAB. And before you even ask – YES!

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Sure, Facebook, Instagram and other Social Networks provide the ability to upload and share your content, but none make it as seamless and easy as Kincast. Once a video starts recording, Kincast’s back end determines your connection speed and begins uploading your content to its servers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. The idea was that if you could put up a consumer site that was seen as the best place to consume content then people wouldn’t go to lower-quality or free sites to get it. Here is my case: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform. I wish every blog used Disqus and I wish every website that syndicated content would create an integrated commenting thread the way that Business Insider does.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2012

The startup has come up with an app now fully integrated with the giant social network and can be used to comment ,like, tag, browse through events, statuses, comments or swipe through videos as you rank them relevant or unwanted without leaving Facebook. We are getting very excited just designing them! So why Gabi?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. A (Very) Brief (and Selective) History in Computing. It was a terrible user experience.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 13, 2011

It’s great to create rich content but unless its easy to create the barriers of entry are high and the masses are not creating it. Webdoc aims to make it dead simple to allow those with/without technical knowledge to create rich engaging content that everyone can enjoy. Think Minority Report meets the web. Are you Funded?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. Their VDNA technology helps protect and manage content rights for works that may be pirated and uploaded illegally by automatically identifying that content, tracking it and taking it down.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Brandenberg was most recently head of Hydra, and we thought we'd both get some insight into how Meteor is approaching the social games market, how the firm hopes to repeat the success it saw with Neopets, and also what Brandenberg learned from his time at Hydra. What's the business model you have for social games?

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

It turns out that HTML5 was designed for the web, and there are plenty of tools designed around it which are really fancy. They've proven that with social networking, proven that with apps, proven that with Facebook credits. Flash is not a game programming language, and actually started as an animation tool.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. I know you could argue that YouTube was much broader but it was really popularized in the social networks. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). But I made it for a reason. It kicked Google Video’s ass.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2011

These are variations on a “crowd-funding” theme to raise money for a startup through social networks and voting at public events. Crowd-sourcing tools, usually Internet applications, use the social media to poll for interest, feedback, and ultimately some funding for the startup. Proposal content is too short to be meaningful.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

ZexSports and PacSun are putting an amazing panel together to discuss the value of key social influencer's, where they are on your social network, and how targeting these potential brand evangelists will have a positive influence on your social media network and ROI. This Panel has gotten extreme and sold out!

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 26, 2012

I mean, Miselu is as new and bold as it gets; in the new world of content creation freedom, in a industry that is rapidly changing to a world of new young talents, and first to the scene. Yes, that is bold.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. He obviously believes this since he has become CEO of TopSpin Media – a firm designed to do just that. He talked about artists needing to retain rights for their website and digital content like ringtones.

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