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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

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Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. During this time, Taylor began to read about Facebook’s Oculus acquisition and wondered what that technology could bring to the world. Taylor started pushing out content through social media and share what was happening in the industry.

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Buzznet Puts Focus On Celebrities

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Los Angeles-based Buzznet , the venture-backed operator of a network of entertainment-focused social media sites, is making the rounds with a new feature on its Celebuzz celebrity web site this week. The firm rolled out a "zoom" feature that allows users on the site to magnify celebrity photos on the site.

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Silicon Beach Fest Approaches! #SBF

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Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. Head to the beach on the first weekend of summer to celebrate LA’s digital innovators in tech, startups, entertainment, fashion, marketing, and more!

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How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd

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One local startup, Chippmunk (www.chippmunk.com), hopes so, and believes that focusing on user interface design will help it win over its competitors. They don''t have coupons that work on that given day, the layout and design looks really spammy, and it feels spammy. The company recently raised a $750,000 seed round of funding.

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Wearable Smart Devices | Ushering in the Future of Smart Technology

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This headset is designed to be implemented with various systems, though they must meet the software requirements before the technology will be operational for a specific game. Recently purchased by the social media giant, Facebook, the Oculus began as a Kickstarter project that achieved a massive amount of support on the internet.

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Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard

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It was a portal, and partnered with ISPs so that those ISPs could generate ad revenue, and create stick entertainment for customers. We made it easier for local businesses to acquire customers through search and social media We sold that to Deluxe Corp. I then moved on to Infoseek, which at the time was just a search engine.

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Want To Trip Out? This Entrepreneur Can Hook You Up

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How has this reality impacted your customer acquisition strategies? Then we started advertising and getting media attention. Obviously, we participate in social media, as everyone does, but unlike everyone else, the stories and pictures we share are those from our travelers or staff, much like we share our adventures personally.