SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 7, 2009

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 -- Mobile Experience 2.0. After years of dialog on mobile convergence, what has actually converged on the mobile platform is the high quality experience, spurred by innovations in Media Content (Video, Music, Movies, T.V.),

Mobile 100

Mobile UCLA Screening Media 100

Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Our model evolved over time as the landscape changed, from ticket sales and sponsorships to online advertising, content marketing, and consulting. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co Most importantly, we like them.

Media 175

Media News Organization Content 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. OTHER DEALS. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

Venture Capital 285

Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 13, 2009

Friday, June 19, 2009 -- Three Brands Speak Out on the Effectiveness of Social Media. The implications of time and platform shifting are profound and lasting. Consumers have a remote and they control time, place, content and interface. CommNexus Marketing SIG. You've heard the buzz: it's all about social media.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Social Network Tips 100

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended. We were in closed beta for a while, and launched in August of 2009.

Startup 195

Startup Platform Sites Java 195

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

It was user generated content for travel, but back in 1999, before we'd really seen the movement toward user generated content. Now, the pendulum has swung in the other direction, and user generated content is one of the things people think of most frequently online when they look for information. We've seen a couple of things.

Content 204

Content Startup Sites Manhattan Beach 204

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

So Twitter was initially billed at a “micro-blogging&# platform. It seemed to save all of the bloggers from coming home at the end of the day from whichever conference they were attending and have to turn in long-form content like a journalist. I’m enjoying reading all the new content created in the tech / VC industries.

Blogging 219

Blogging Venture Capital Startup Social Media 219

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The DataPop team is building a platform that enables real time creation and delivery of highly engaging ads to consumers on a massive scale. We’re excited to work with them.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

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. As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

socalTECH

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. We hope to be on every single platform, over time. I took a little bit of time off, then started working on Frequency in the middle of 2009.

Social Network 232

Social Network Startup Services Organization 232

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. And of course we have dozens of other data sources making us a much broader platform than Twitter data.

CTO Hire 309

CTO Hire Organization Google Course 309

Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We’ve recently launched a video series called T3:Today’s Tech Trends to further support our shows by adding a video component that can be shared directly from YouTube, our blog or embedded in the radio show website, blog or any other website/blog willing to carry the free content. We launched it with KNX on March 21st, 2009.

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Social Network 220

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Launched in July of 2006, Twitter was a platform that experienced consistent and steady growth for many years. They hit the coveted one million user milestone and within two years a billion tweets had been sent on the platform. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. The ROI was solid.

Platform 40

Platform Startup News Content 40

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 9, 2012

Some may not remember Google Video, the service stopped taking uploads in May 2009 but still has hosted content and a number of users. Google therefore says that it will be taking the hosted content to YouTube later this summer and the remaining users are asked to migrate, delete or download their content by August 20.

Google 68

Google Technical Support RSS Web 68

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

2009, at which point it was generating enough revenue for me to live on it full time. I realized that I should build a platform to put content. platform, turned it into an art site, and it just took off from the get go. Artists can control all the content, set the prices, and it's all fully automated with no need for a.

Santa Monica 258

Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

So, we refocused in late 2008 and early 2009, and launched Island Paradise in August of that year. Because of that, where we want to go now with the business is back in the direction that Meteor Games was originally focused on, which is more immersive, more fleshed out, more content driven, interactive games.

Beverly Hills 182

Beverly Hills Advertising Design Activity 182

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If I'm a woman, I might really be into fashion and beauty, and would be more apt to engage with content and community and engage in the shopping experience around that vertical, versus a horizontal brand across verticals. All those sites will crowdsource content through a passionate and engaged community around lifestyle categories.

Content 165

Content Demand Sites Media 165

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2012

They specialized in content creation. Like Gary Vaynerchuk, Cunningham built the family business 10 fold through creating branded web content with a viral touch. Cunningham walked into his office one day and thought, why wouldn’t I make content with the information from my favorite business books, but speed it up and make it visual?

Startup 76

Startup Social Media Content Web 2.0 76

Tech.Co

JANUARY 15, 2018

MVF was founded in the UK by five friends in 2009, and has driven incredibly fast growth over the past 9 years. Our model evolved over time as the landscape changed, from ticket sales and sponsorships to online advertising, content marketing, and consulting. Today, I’m excited to announce that Tech.Co Most importantly, we like them.

Media 70

Media News Organization Content 70

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

While I was there, I was product manager leading efforts to include third party content into the platform. After Go Network, I joined the team at Xoom.com, which was the first wave of user generated content on the Internet. I was employee seven or eight there. We sold that to IAC.

Southern California 245

Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Like all good players, they figured out they needed more tools to help them out, so they started out a business, and built out a very robust platform for tournaments for Counterstrike and other games. Tags: john maffei xfire titan gaming videogame game startup content interview entrepreneur. READ MORE>>.

Competition 154

Competition Acquisition Sites Los Angeles 154

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. Bryan Cheung: In 2009, we switch to a subscription model. We provide everything from your website, to your mobile app, to your kiosk in an in-preson environment. How did the shift come from consulting services to a product?

Diamond Bar 169

Diamond Bar Customer Custom Organization 169

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Part of what we do differently, is we leverage original content and breaking news as a hook to get into the site, then quickly get into engaging applications, such as localized events, original videos, mobile apps, fantasy/reality TV leagues, and more. How have you managed the high cost of creating content? We've done two things.

News 173

News Entertainment Startup Bertelsmann 173

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Zoomorama was a finalist at the Microsoft BizSpark event at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content. The site offers up a hybrid mix of traditional journalists, industry experts and User Generated Content.

Incubator 40

Incubator Develop Development Social Network 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. iAd platform was formally launches in July 2010 as part of iOS 4. DST invested $180mm last fall.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

We raised funding in September of 2009, about six months ago, raising $500,000 from private angel investors. We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. At the same time, working at Twistbox, a mobile content publisher--it was kind of frustrating to only have rights for one particular vertical.

Email 185

Email Startup Mobile Ideas 185

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2015

But that’s changing with a new crop of rich media platforms disrupting the ecosystem with new mobile and non-standard rich media ad formats, one of which – Jetpack – is located right here in Santa Monica. Jetpack was founded in 2009 by digital media veterans Marc Brown, Chris Tragos and Kevin Woolery.

Advertising 40

Advertising Media Mobile Buzznet 40

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley. In content creation we definitely have assets other markets don’t have.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

MAY 21, 2009

We got started after our seed funding on August first of last year and immediately went to work with platform companies. These are platforms on which people build their 3D content. We have completed integration with about 60 percent of the platforms, which represents thousands of worlds and millions of participants.

Tool 113

Tool Platform Venture Capital Startup 113

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

After starting CheapCheapCheap to understand the consumer behavior and trends, I decided to get into the hyperlocal area in 2009. Certain people might like certain deals, and not others, and people end up opting-out when they don't see content they like. We rode the recession wave, as all people became bargain hunters.

Orange County 170

Orange County Startup Sites Southern California 170

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

After directing a film in 2009, I wanted to get back into the design industry. Outside of refinement, there’s going to be a big push on cross-platform apps that aren’t built in the native languages for those platforms. Some of these are universal across all the platforms, whether iOS, Android or Windows Phone.

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Brandon Hance: We launched our beta in February of 2009, and quickly put together powerful partnerships. They're the largest marketing platform in the music business, and we've signed on to be their exclusive ecommerce partner. Tags: brandon hance audiolife music ecommerce store software musician artist content hollywood.

Van Nuys 191

Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Joey Flores is co-founder and CEO of Earbits , an online radio platform that enables bands, labels and concert promoters to acquire fans, market new releases and promote live events. He was Director of Online Marketing for Mota Motors, a BusinessWeek Top 50 Most Promising Startup of 2009 and TechCrunch50 finalist.

Los Angeles 78

Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel Fractional CTO 78

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. Share Buttons Work… In A Way Share buttons on your post help your content reach a greater audience by creating easy channels to social networks.

RSS 29

RSS HTML JavaScript Doc 29

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 6, 2014

What they do: They’re a website, platform, and now mobile-app for crowdsourced annotation of song lyrics and texts. Beginning with hip hop in 2009, they’ve since included different genre verticals into their model with rock, poetry, news, even bible. There’s no need to bang on the pots and pans. Genius, in Your Hands.

Startup 93

Startup Mobile Entertainment Sites 93

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

There must have been some reasons the stations did not embrace the platform, because--from what I gathered--there were not a lot of stations actively participating in the system. A station might not want that kind of content on the air. Our platform doesn't require any time. Sellers also have to have a win.

Google 124

Google Advertising Media Startup 124