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Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. This past year 2012 was all about forming teams, picking players, and choosing uniforms.
It's worth mentioning that the largest and most complex pieces of technology ever created has proven itself useful in 2012--the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. Aside from the theoretical stuff, 2012 has been a year of disruption in many areas of technology. Media and Entertainment has seen more barriers to entry being broken down.
Online women's publishing site SheKnows has bumped into the 50 largest web properties in the U.S., Citing numbers from th ecomScore July 2012 report, the Los Angeles-based site--which is part of AtomicOnline--said it now has nearly 25 million readers. the site said this week. READ MORE>>.
Newport Beach-based digital advertising firm MediaShift has snagged the former CFO of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, as its CFO, according to the company. MediaShift went public via a reverse merger back in 2012, and was formerly known as Ad-Vantage Networks; the firm is now traded OTCBB. READ MORE>>.
I’m starting to spend my time evaluating companies that can help brands simultaneously build within the fortress but also maintain social value in the open web. The topic of social media came up and one dial-in caller lamented the fact that all Silicon Valley was producing was silly social media companies.
But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.
Rubicon said the ranking was released in the comScore Media Metrix monthly ranking of Ad Focus properties for May 2012. Rubicon Project's online advertising service automates and optimizes digital media advertising for web publishers. READ MORE>>.
Moviepilot''s web site focuses on film recommendations, film discovery, and the company also helps studios with social media campaigns. Moviepilot set up shop in LA in 2012 , due to the entertainment industry''s base here. The move puts the company''s focused squarely on its Los Angeles operations.
Glossi , which develops tools to help publishers create digital magazines for the web, said today that it has launched a brand new set of features aimed at rich media content publishers. Glossi was originally started as a project at ThisNext; the company is now independent of ThisNext, having spun out independently in December of 2012.
Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project said today that it has passed Google in the latest, comScore Media Metrix monthly ranking of Ad Focus properties. Rubicon reports that the the July 2012 comScore ranking found that Rubicon Project now reaches 96.2% of the U.S. READ MORE>>.
Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million.
Friday, December 21, 2012 -- AngelLaunch Holiday Party. Angel Launch produces events connecting entrepeneurs and investors in Los Angeles and San Francisco area. link] (more)
Who are you on the web? It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. On the web each website wants you to log in to their website using a proprietary user name and password. ” Let me explain it with a current metaphor – the 2012 US presidential campaign. That’s one form of identity.
My point was that Amazon continues to dominate the web services business because AWS continues to cut prices & margin in the same way a hypermarket does to control market share. Every politician in the country knows this as well as every consumer brand, every retailer, every restaurant and every media company. I wasn’t.
Network with hundreds over delicious four course dinner followed by panel on Attracting Venture Capital, and Top Trends for Social Media, Mobile Apps and Consumer Devices. Our very own Amanda Coolong will be moderating the Attracting Venture Capital, Social TV, Social Media and Mobile Trends panel.
Monday, June 4, 2012 -- aunchFEST Demo Night. Angel Launch, a new event for startups and investors, is producing a networking venture pitch, networking dinner and party the night before E3 Expo in LA for digital media, mobile and tech startups. See [link] (more)
The network grew exponentially from its earliest days, with the number of connected host computers reaching 100 by 1977, 100,000 by 1989, a million by the early 1990’s, and a billion by 2012; it now serves more than half the planet’s population. If we ask what we could have done to mitigate some of these problems, one can easily name two.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 -- Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief Danny Sullivan - Startups Uncensored #30. Widely considered a leading "search engine guru," Danny Sullivan has been helping webmasters, marketers and everyday web users understand how search engines work for over a decade. s Nightline. See [link] (more)
Thursday, March 1, 2012 -- Digiday Mobile: Putting the Third Screen First. Mobile Media is stealing attention from every other form of media, especially the traditional Web. Yet it has barely put a dent in the budgets spent on online, let alone on TV. See [link] (more)
The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.
John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011). 23:00 Discussion of California’s social media privacy laws.
Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. This was the first in her string of web properties. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 -- Contentric. Downloads will replace most physical media. The Web, not the local bookstore or movie theater, will be the place where most people get most of their content. The Web, not the local bookstore or movie theater, will be the place where most people get most of their content.
What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.
Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). 2011 was an incredibly huge year for us, and 2012 will be the same way.
Friday, November 9, 2012 -- Silicon Beach Fest. Attendees can get a chance to be one of be 5 pre-screened pitches (and maybe 1 aud pitch if there's time) who will have ONE minute to give a pitch of their startup, web series, app, film pitch with feedback from panelists. The panelists will pick their fave pitch to give a 5-minute pitch.
Social Media Week (SMW) helps organizations connect and share the latest social media findings through social, cultural and economic talks and workshops in major cities worldwide. 2012. ” SMWLA will take place next week Sept. A City of Angels: How Social Media is Bringing LA Closer to Utopia. 10:30-11:00am.
Even though Lyft nor Sidecar presented at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 they need to be mentioned as they were a huge time saver both getting from after party to after party and also to get to the airport. Evernote is the most incredible notetaking tool keeping me organized while catering to my ADD personality and click addiction web research.
As we’re out we all like to indulge in our social media accounts with sharing updates, media, and check-ins. During this year’s 2012 Consumer Electronic Show (#CES), we were sponsors to the demoing of the new venue management solution from the nightclub and nightlife web application called SocialNightLife.com.
Josh Meyers: Slickdeals is the web''s largest deal sharing community. I was at Overture, then Yahoo, and later People Media, which we sold to Match.com. Josh Meyers: When I looked at Slickdeals at 2012, I saw a company that had been around for more than ten years, a company that had incredible content--really amazing content.
We're partnering with the biggest insurance brands, including Nationwide, and many, many others�25 different insurance companies�and taking their insurance policies and selling them in a unified way, making it available to consumers via iOS and Android apps and the web. We were eventually acquired by a large competitorin 2012.
The 1st place winner was SnazzyRoom, an online styling tool for mixing and matching items on the web ( SnazzyRoom.com ). If you missed this Startup Weekend LA, also check out SW in the OC on Mar 30 and the soon to be announced Startup Weekend Media edition.
That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. I can remember when creating a web site for eCommerce could easily require a million dollar investment. Now you can create a web site for almost nothing - and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services.
Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012.
During her tenure, "A director came into our offices and pitched us a web-series idea. Originally, my company was called ''The Cloud Media.'' In the first year (at The Cloud Media), just me alone, I did over a million dollars in brand deals. So I went and wound up being a zombie in the very first video that went on The Station.
He built & IPOd Demand Media. Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite. He led and sold MySpace to Fox for $650 million. 36% of all apparel jobs in the US are in Los Angeles.
This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data.
The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. We just made it really, really easy to get a job online across the web in a couple minutes. HootSuite recently faced this common startup predicament: how to quickly hire quality candidates in large quantities.
RunwayML Runway is an applied AI tool artists can use to create AI-generated media, like video, audio and text. Gumroad Gumroad is a web-builder and ecommerce platform that lets creators sell products directly to consumers. What started as a weekend project in 2012 is now a global marketplace that attracted 55.2
Hilariously simple tutorials, gaming, Windows 8 real-time, Windows Azure as a virtually unlimited scaling mechanism, and of course, awesome web and mobile possibilities are just a few of the examples you’ll see demonstrated. Despite what you read in the media HTML5 web applications can be extremely powerful and engaging.
Initially, my desire to go into the mobile space came from my love for design and my weariness with web or print related art. Early in the days of devices, it was tougher to get great performance from Web Dev based applications, but as the phones and tablets grow in power, the responsiveness is becoming almost indistinguishable.
Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7
ScoreStream, a five-year-old startup that created a social media platform for crowd-sourcing local sports scores, has raised $3.7 million since it was founded in 2012. CEO Derrick Oien said Friday that ScoreStream recently completed a Verizon R/GA digital “Media Tech.
In this article the focus will be on how to successfully attract media attention. In order to prepare for TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 I reviewed company bios via the official site and read taglines that said “cool” rather than what the company does. 1 Pre Planning. There is no need to dive into detail unless detail is requested.
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