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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Johnson was the founder of VirtualTourist, which he sold to Expedia in 2008. The new features follow the launch last month of "social badges" on the site, similar to Foursquare and other location-based checkin services. Tags: lunch social networking questions answers reviews ratings feed. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site run by J.R. Johnson, is targeting orphaned users of the Ning social networking service, the firm said this week. Ning said this week that it will eliminate free accounts on its service, which allowed users to build their own social networking sites.

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JULY 29, 2011

Irvine-based Specific Media has recruited an investment banker to head up its business development efforts, fresh off its acquisition of onetime social networking king MySpace. According to Specific Media, it has hired Scott Schopen , former investment banker at Piper Jaffray, as Vice President of Corporate Development at the firm.

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JULY 6, 2010

Social badges--awards which are given for having accomplished certain tasks on web sites and social games--have become popular recently due to the popularity of Foursquare and social games. Johnson is known for his success with VirtualTourist, which he sold to Expedia in 2008. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 4, 2013

We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. To give you an idea, we're indexing over half a billion social posts every day, and over 5 million new videos every single day. What is Frequency?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Saturday, September 20, 2008 -- "LAMP developers guide to subversion" LAMPsig. He is currently working for a startup company in the multiplayer social network gaming space. Speaker: David Rolston has a long history of web development that dates back to the earliest days of the WWW.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008 -- "Digital Content Distribution's Brave New World: Trends and Issues" TCOSC. and the social networking revolution, covering the rise of user-generated content and how traditional content creators such as the studios and record labels are confronting disruptive technological development in content delivery.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008 -- "Digital Content Distribution's Brave New World: Trends and Issues" Technology Council. The Program will explore trends in digital content distribution, at the heart of Web 2.0

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

Thursday, December 11, 2008 -- Digital Family Reunion. In association with some of the region's top trade associations and social networking groups, the DFR is throwing the holiday party of the millennium. Connecting 1.0 + 2.0.

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JULY 16, 2012

With the proliferation of social media, how do you--as a brand--manage all of those various websites, content, and media? Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 24, 2016

So throughout 2006/07 when I had really young kids Facebook was truly a social network for sharing family moments. In the years 2008-10 it seems most of my high school and college friends discovered Facebook and wanted to say hello. So I guess I realized what else might happen to others on Facebook.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 19, 2012

Microsoft in late June announced to have acquired social network for enterprises Yammer at $ 1.2 They set out to give companies social media use as an upper hand for business success. Yammer was launched in 2008 and raised $142 million then. billion.But the deal has been fully completed today.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Jobscience early today acquired Atomkeep in a move the company says was to help job seekers validate their social image over the various social networks to avoid mistaken identities from would be employers. ” Atomkeep was launched in 2008 and syncs users information on their social networks with online job boards.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. The growth of Facebook and social gaming led by Zynga – Another obvious trend is Facebook. Notice that I didn’t say “social networking.”

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MAY 12, 2014

He also co-founded Genetic Finance and is a Founding Member of Change.org, a social network focused on initiating and sustaining positive social change. Benedikt''s description of his encounters with Adam is an effective primer for young entrepreneurs who want to expand their network beyond their peers.

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JULY 6, 2015

Page Howe: I've been a fan of the domain since 2008 and 2009, having grown up in LA, lived here, and seen the story here through the good and the bad. Are domains till important, given how many people are now using mobile apps and social networks to get to the content they want? How did you get involved with.LA?

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JULY 23, 2014

When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. This is a structural shift in our industry few have talked about publicly. The iPhone was released.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. First off the two prezis and then the case study material (i used ERPLY as inspiration).

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary.

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MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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APRIL 4, 2013

Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We worked night and weekends, fleshed out the concept, and in July and August of 2008 we launched the product, took on some angel funding, and started the process.

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AUGUST 24, 2013

If you are in the realm of the 47% of small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc., Csathy was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, Inc., a highly respected global video company that services virtually all media companies and 70 of the Fortune 100. He continues to sit on the board of Sorenson Media.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

Apple’s App Store launched in 2008 and is already closing in on 50 billion downloads. As fast as life moves, technology moves even faster. It only took Facebook eight years to land a billion users. Twitter hit the five hundred million mark in just six years. Government, in contrast, does not move quickly.

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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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JUNE 28, 2010

Developer and publisher of social mobile games. Spun off from Freewebs in 2008, based in Palo Alto. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. CEO- Randy Breen (ex-EA, and LucasArts). SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

really, that opportunity has only recently been realized fully with Apple in 2008, and later with Google. When iTunes started selling games in 2008, it coincided with one of the biggest market corrections, one of the biggest global economic corrections in our history and in my lifetime. Can you talk about how you managed that?

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MARCH 29, 2012

Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. Basically, we've built a platform that allows businesses to build social media promotions across multiple social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Linkedin.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2012

If you are in the realm of the 47% of small businesses who still ignore social media, you need to read the new book by Dave Carroll, “ United Breaks Guitars.” It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. Since then, we've seen lots of changes in the social gaming market, including lots of new players, lots of growth, and also lots of interest from traditional gaming studios.

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JUNE 30, 2010

It ran in April of 2008. Tom Grasty: There are, as I like to say, no shortage of online video editing platforms, online video editors, or social networking sites, even though there are fewer online editors now than eighteen months ago. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman: We started quite a while ago, back in almost September of 2008. We thought about where else we could apply it to, and thought about the various social networking services, and specifically, Twitter. How long has Bccthis been around?

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Ian Rogers – Topspin Media Ian Rogers was the GM of Yahoo Music before heading to Topspin Media in April 2008 as CEO. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , He blogs here and tweets here.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

That said, the founders only committed to the project fulltime in 2008, when traffic hit over 1 million visit a month. The service can be accessed by computer, mobile phone ( iPhone , Android ) or social network ( Facebook ). When was it launched? In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

When the Mars Phoenix found water on Mars in June 2008, they announced it on Twitter. But if you can make the right moves, the right choices, at the right time, you can become the number one network. It’s a powerful tool for social utility and a great social network. But, it became so much more very quickly.

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