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Sony Online Entertainment Applies Facial Analysis To Game

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San Diego-based Sony Online Entertainment has rolled out a new technology for its popular EverQuest II online game, which allows users to control their avatars' faces and change their voices, as part of a deal with Santa Monica-based Image Metrics. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Mike Starkenburg, Image Metrics

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Los Angeles-based Image Metrics (www.image-metrics.com) recently landed a $6.5M, Series B funding round for the firm's facial animation products. More and more of the company began to move here, and we now have about 45 people total, with 30 of them here in Santa Monica. I fell in love with it. We're that close.

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Business.com Boosts Analytics

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Santa Monica-based Business.com , which provides online directories for B2B purchasing, announced today that the firm has launched a new tool to help advertisers access pay-per-click metrics on the site. Business.com is now owned by R.H. Donnelley; the firm was purchased by R.H. Donnelley back in 2007. READ MORE>>.

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Los Angeles Tech Launched - Hot List

SoCal CTO

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology.

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How to Profit: “Thank You Metrics” – Community First, Money Second

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NOT just because they have the best deals on web based business tools. Being that the theme of the night was community, it was perfect that the event was held at CoLoft , a workspace in Santa Monica that focuses on start up entrepreneurs. Noah has what I believe he called “Thank You metrics”.

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A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles

Jason Nazar

I’ve spent the last year running a tech company based in Santa Monica , CA and I’ve spent countless weeks in the Bay meeting with hundreds of tech founders. Mark Zuckerberg & Reid Hoffman – hands down built the two best consumer internet applications on the web. Peter Pham – best networker / connector in web 2.0.

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

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And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. 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. It’s awesome. Foursquare. a fbFund winner.

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