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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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Burn This Number After Calling: Greg Cohn on Burner

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Greg Cohn: I spent the last five years at Yahoo, where I was leading strategy and business development on innovation efforts, mostly related to social and developer problems. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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-Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. Competitors: Gowalla.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . startups.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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SXSWi is five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the biggest thought leaders in Interactive digital media space. Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . jim spencer, media convergence group. But, with the.

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