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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin

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If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica.

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Clearstone Ventures Into Apture

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Santa Monica-based Clearstone Venture Partners is the lead investor in a Northern California firm focused on the blogging and publishing industry, Apture. Apture develops tools which allow publishers to highlight and link terms in articles to multimedia popups, showing additional information, videos, photos, and other content.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

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Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog. You can use keywords like: Events in Los Angeles or Southern California Events or even Santa Monica Events. They put on great events.

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Gil Elbaz On Factual's New Warchest

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Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Gil Elbaz: The primary developer demographic for our products is people building web and mobile applications. In the case of the U.S.,

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Then came blogs. That was a kerfuffle too.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. At the CTO Group that I organize in Santa Monica, we've had lots of discussions around this. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure.

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