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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based VIRURL , which is headed by Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, said today that it has launched a new widget aimed at web publishers. The firm said its new "Slideout" widget helps provide unobtrusive advertising to help publishers monetize site visitors. Diaz-Mitoma is the former founder of Titan Gaming.

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DECEMBER 3, 2009

A new startup, Santa Monica-based MOVIECLIPS.COM , said late Wednesday evening that it has launched a new online video site featuring movie clips and scenes. The Movieclips site allows users to search for scenes from major movies, and embed them on Facebook, MySpace, and other web site. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 24, 2008

Santa Monica-based Intent.com said Thursday that it has launched a new web site focused on wellness and social networking. The new site fatures blog posting from Deepak Chopra, Olivia Newton John, Ed Begley Jr., The new site fatures blog posting from Deepak Chopra, Olivia Newton John, Ed Begley Jr.,

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MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publisher which runs such sites as eHow.com, typeF.com, and LIVESTRONG.COM, said Thursday afternoon that it is launching a new effort focused on long-form web content.

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MARCH 1, 2010

Santa Monica-based Movieclips.com , an online site which allows users to search for scenes from major movies, and embed them on Facebook, MySpace, and other web sites, said today that it has opened up its service to users worldwide. Tags: movieclips movie content social embed video streaming hollywood.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, has inked a partnership with outdoor retailer REI. Trails.com is Demand Media's online adventure site, providing trail guides, topographic maps, articles, and other outdoors-related content. The companies announced the deal today.

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Santa Monica-based Tsavo Media , which is developing software which helps to make web sites more relevant to their visitors, announced today that it has added a new feature to match relevant stories with users on its Daymix information portal.

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MAY 22, 2012

Well, a Santa Monica-based service, Mixin , is looking to bring that same pop-up bubble concept to online videos and video sites. The result is essentially, web-video-meets-pop-up-video, with user's comments popping up into a video in bubble boxes.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Rustic Canyon Partners has upped its investment in social games firm PlayFirst , which is based in San Francisco. Rustic's Mark Menell and Nate Redmond are involved in PlayFirst, according to Rustic Canyon's web site.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the new media venture of former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has just published its one millionth piece of original content, and is launching an effort to extend health care benefits to freelancers creating that content for the firm. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2012

Is Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the startup headed by Jason Calacanis, just about to reveal a new pivot and new corporate name? Inside.com currently only includes a simple web signup form which adds you to an email list from Calacnisd. According to a story from TechCrunch this morning, yes. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. photographer and live here in Santa Monica, you can take an image of the Santa Monica Pier.

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JUNE 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media company which owns Manolith, Twirlit, Kidglue, and Nibbledish, has lost its Vice President of Product and Design, Mike Macadaan. Tsavo develops content-focused web sites which apply technology to serve up more relevant information and advertising depending on who was visiting those web sites.

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JANUARY 26, 2009

Santa Monica-based automotive information site Edmunds.com is adding new car inventory to its web site, after brokering a deal with AutoTrader.com, the firm reported today. Edmunds.com operates an online site which allows consumers to find information about various automobiles.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Santa Monica-based FlipGloss Media , a developer of visually driven, photo-centric web technology aimed at the fashion and news industry, announced today that it has launched a new web site for entertainment news provider Variety. Tags: flipgloss content news software photo photography emmy. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The content comes from other places. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Santa Monica-based Slingshot Labs , the startup incubator headed by MySpace co-founders Josh Berman and Colin Digiaro, officially rolled out its first web site this morning, DailyFill. The new site is the latest in what seems to be a surge of celebrity-focused content sites. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project has signed a New York company, Katz 360 Sales, to give Katz access to its inventory of premium display ads, the firms announced today. Katz 360 Sales said it is using Rubicon Project's Internet advertising infrastructure to customize content and audience selections for its advertisers.

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JULY 2, 2009

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.com the online health and fitness joint effort between cyclist Lance Armstrong and Demand Media, said today that Armstrong will be adding exclusive content, including blog posts, videos, and photos, to the site as part of the 96th annual Tour de France. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project has tapped a New York company, Katz 360 Sales, to sell premium display ads to advertisers, the firms announced today. Rubicon Project provides online Internet advertising infrastructure for publishers, which optimizes the advertising placed on their web sites. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent.

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Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. I ran it for almost a decade.

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JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; Real-time search engine.

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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. The app store is crowded, and the web is also crowded too.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Santa Monica-based Social Project--which was once known as Tagworld--has been acquired by MTV Networks, MTV said Monday. Social Project is behind the development of Flux, software which allows web publishers to create their own social networking web sites. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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JULY 23, 2010

This week, Santa Monica-based ThisNext (www.thisnext.com) said it has raised another round of funding for the firm's social shopping site. ThisNext.com has been a social shooping site, really for anyone and everyone, and for every product category. That content reflects our focus towards women.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. Our whole goal is to create content for real life. For Legalzoom, it's a very different model.

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

Santa Monica-based DECA, a venture-backed, digital entertainment studio, said this morning that it has become the exclusive business and production partners for teen brand SMOSH, a leading provider of humorous videos on YouTube. DECA said that SMOSH has over 555,000 subscribers on YouTube, in addition to operating its own web site.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Santa Monica-based Jacked, a provider of second screen information for sports broadcasts, said Monday that the firm has inked a deal with the NBA. The deal calls for local and regional television broadcasters to integrate its SportsTop product into their web sites. The deal also will have participating NBA teams.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Santa Monica-based Gorilla Nation, which provides ad sales for web publishers, said today that it has extended its deal with Gawker Media to cover advertising sales throughout the UK. Gawker publishes the Gawker, Defamer, Jzzebel, Gizmodo, Kotaku, ValleyWag, Lifehacker, and Jalopnik online gossip and media sites.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. Alec Shankman: It's an interesting space, because a lot of folks came out and tried to blend technology and Hollywood by creating content portals.

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JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site? Our demographic is the 22 to 32 year old.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica. Before Harrison Metal, Erik was most recently vice president of product management and strategy at TripAdvisor, the largest travel community site on the Web. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan.

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JULY 26, 2010

Back by popular demand Schmoozd 3 is set for this Thursday, July 29th 6-10 PM at Wokano in Santa Monica, CA. TweakEats - whether it’s a recipe found on the web or one you enter, Tweak Eats automatically calculates the nutritional content and shows you how each change affects the results.

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JULY 1, 2010

-Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Includes content mobile guides, ie. Makes money by partnering with brands and marketers to publish location-triggered content. a fbFund winner.

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