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FastPoint Games Scores With Major League Soccer

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Los Angeles-based FastPoint Games , the developer of white label fantasy and other games for sports and entertainment firms which is run by Kelly Perdew, said Thursday that it has delivered two games for Major League Soccer. FastPoint said that it has delivered a 2011 Salary Cap Game and a League Manager Game for the soccer league.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

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We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site. It was discouraging.

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Funny or Die Launches New Design and Better Ad Opportunities

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Comedic startup site Funny or Die has announced a new design that adds new content and features to the site. The redesign also gives advertisers a larger presence on the homepage and more in-video opportunities across the site. less than a minute ago via web Funny Or Die funnyordie. . Check out the new look of [link] !

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Marketing The Funniest Site On The Internet With Patrick Starzan of Funny or Die

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Patrick is the man behind all the marketing aspects of what could be called one of the funniest sites on the web. Above is an interview we did with Patrick at BlogWorld Expo New York 2011. How do you market the Funniest site on the internet? We later got in touch with Patrick to have him answer the following questions.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. CEO hinted to WSJ that it may go public in early 2011. Interesting that Booyah is led by a former game producer, Keith Lee, who formerly launched very large products for Blizzard Entertainment. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

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Decoding the Secret of iPhone Game Popularity, With William Volk, Playscreen

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William Volk: One of our other real big hits is Bocce Ball, which was our first Playscreen title in January of 2011. In 2007, we tried to launch it for the iPhone web, and the platform still couldn't handle it. It had originally been a web-based, flash game, so we created a fascimile in 2010 with a list of loyal users.

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