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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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Mindshare LA Brings the Power of “Play” to Santa Monica

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It is important when the presenters come from a complex educational background that the content is curated in a digestable manner. The recent partnership with UCLA is what initially brought Mindshare to the Westside. Advertising Culture Entertainment Events Gadgets Mindshare Mindshare LA Play Santa Monica'

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. We're funding things like clean water, education, and other efforts.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Panels: Developer, Arts/Education; Green, Good and Government.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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Over 150 educational institutions are using our free screenwriting software, and we've attracted writers to our community by providing a free, web-based alternative to expensive screenwriting tools like Final Draft and Movie Magic, which charge $200 to $250 for their tools. There are also others who are doing advertisements with short video.

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