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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

News today that AOL has acquired technology news blog TechCrunch highlights the growing place of blog publishers in the online world. Here are three, Southern California blog networks which have quietly growing their network of properties: BUZZMEDIA. Did we miss your favorite, Southern California blog empire? Let us know!

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the vast network of entertainment and music related blogs and websites, said that it is now number one in entertainment news, according to rankings from comScore. The company, which is run by Tyler Goldman, says it is now seeing more than 502 million monthly page views across its sites.

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DECEMBER 18, 2009

Los Angeles-based entertainment news blog Deadline.com is trumpeting its readership numbers today, saying that the site had 1,111,000 unique visitors in November, more than industry publications Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. The site, run by Nikke Finke, was acquired by Mail.com in June.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the publisher of entertainment related blogs and websites, said Friday that it has acquired The Frisky , an entertainment news, celebrity, and fashion site, from Turner Broadcasting Systems. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Microsoft's MSN, and Santa Monica-based media firm BermanBraun Interactive said today that they have rolled out a new celebrity news site called WonderWall , which will feature information on what the companies described as the "hottest" pop culture stories, personalities, and trends. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Hollywood-based Buzznet, a venture-backed operator of social media websites, said Thursday that it has launched a new site called Just Jared Jr. The site is being launched in a partnership with Buzznet and celebrity blog Just Jared. focused on tweens and teens. READ MORE>>

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APRIL 29, 2010

The paper said it will put in-text links to sites such as Amazon and TicketNetwork as part of the editorial in its Health, Image, Food, Travel, Books, Entertainment and Sports articles and photo galleries.

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MARCH 3, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media said this morning that it has acquired CoveritLive , a developer of a live blogging platform used to provide real time commentary, reader polling, and questions and answers on live events. CoveritLive has been used on sites like People, TMZ, Entertainment Weekly, Variety and the Daily Beast.

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MAY 9, 2013

Yekra says it is a digital entertainment distributor connected with an affiliate marketing system. Yekra says its system helps match content to viewers by genre, by digitally distributing entertainment through different web sites, blogs, social networks, and other destinations. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. I loved the idea of “mobile first” but something always bothered me.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Fizzilogy provides online social media monitoring of Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other sites to help the media, entertainment, and sports industry track trends. Hollywood-based social media research company Fizziology said this morning that it has launched a new, U.K. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2011

With sites like TurnTable.fm , Chill , and Shaker to name a few. Their latest addition to Worlize is the ability to for a “Chat Now” badge to be placed on your blog. When the badge is clicked on your blog, it will transport your visitors to the entrance room of your world.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Los Angeles-based Mail.com Media Corporation (MMC), which operates the Mail.com email service and portal, as well as its own network of content-focused web sites, said today that it has acquired BGR.com , a mobile/gadget review and news site. Tags: content publishing gadget blog acquisition merger bgr.com mail mail.com.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

The online coupon search industry is very crowded, with dozens of sites, players large and small, and is a very confusing landscape for consumers. There''s a ton of coupon and deals sites. They do a Google search, and they''re presented with thousands of sites in the search results. Why are you different?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 19, 2013

a tweet that the pair would create the first in-Tweet branded syced video to entertainment series. Today some sort of in-stream deal was announced with BBC America that promised in-Tweet branded video synced to an entertainment series. Twitter and Blogs. The post The New Twitter | TV, Music and Blogs appeared first on TechZulu.

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DECEMBER 4, 2009

The founders Los Angeles-based GumGum , a startup which offers ad-supported, celebrity and entertainment photos for blogs and other web sites, has diverged into the online ad business, saying this week that it has launched a separate, advertising service called Bedrock.

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

We spoke with Lisa Hennessy , one of the founders of DreamJobbing and an entertainment industry veteran, to learn more about the startup. We''ll also aggregate media, when those people Facetime about their job blog about their job, tweet on the job, and Instagram about it--we''ll aggregate all of that on the site.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009 -- Entertainment News Goes Social Panel. Join us for our panel discussion on how industry news sources are using online, especially social media, to report entertainment news. Digital LA. Extra extra read all about it! online, your iPhone, Blackberry, tweets, etc! See [link] (more).

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MARCH 10, 2009

Los Angeles-based online production firm EQAL disclosed today that it has launched the web site it is codeveloping with CBS, HarpersGlobe.com , the companion site to the new CBS mystery Harper's Island. Tags: harpers content entertainment television globe eqal harpersglobe. READ MORE>>.

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Technology Council

MARCH 31, 2009

The Technology Council of Southern California and TechEmpower are happy to announce the launch of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. As you know, the comments at the foot of every blog out there that is really kind of a big waste of time. Who do you see using this most?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

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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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. He has been blogging on a number of subjects, for example, eLearning. Elearning is an example.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

On the entertainment side, Rubicon said that there was a "flood" of inventory into the system, with new celebrity gossip blogs, photo sites, fashion, and more, which pushed down the CPMs for that category; despite the drop, the firm also said that publishers are seeing a 70% revenue growth despite the lower CPMs for their properties.

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OCTOBER 30, 2012

Los Angeles-based digital media publisher BUZZMEDIA looks to be revving up its hiring on the editorial end of its business, saying Tuesday that it has hired nine staffers across its sites Celebuzz, and SPIN. The firm said the expansion of its staff will further expand the brands. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 26, 2013

With over 25% of the total time Americans spend online dedicated to social networks and blogs, it’s no wonder that 71%, just about three quarters of all Internet users, are more likely to purchase a product from a brand they are following on a social media site like Twitter and Instagram. And we’re all the better for it.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Los Angeles-based digital entertainment studio DECA announced today that the firm has launched a new show, Momversation , focused on the "mom" demographic. The firm said the new show and site features video conversations between several popular "mommy bloggers". The show is coming out of the gate with Yahoo! READ MORE>>

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InfoChachkie

JULY 16, 2012

Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates. Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Share and Enjoy.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

One, is it makes it easy for businesses to embed that video on their own website, on blogs, and Facebook, and they can also link to that video on their Google Places page. At TripUp, we had lots of user generated reviews and hotels, and we were the first to add user general video to a travel community site.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2013

This traveling player can allow direct digital rentals from any blog, Facebook page, Twitter profile or other online site. Their baked in marketing technology helps producers determine the best distribution system by matching genres with online viewers demographics across 4,000 affiliate sites.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

We’ve simplified our pricing, and API partners are now utilizing our technology in unique ways to fulfill a growing demand for entertainment imagery.”. Born is most notable for his work in founding sister-site, Audio Micro , an online repository for royalty free music and sound effects.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. If you think about virtual worlds right now, there's a lot of hype around kids worlds and entertainment, much like there was a lot of hype around Second Life in the past. Metaplace was formerly known as Areae.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 5, 2012

Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates. Fortunately, several startups have devised tools which make it possible for content creators to maintain the entertainment integrity of their videos while embedding relevant calls-to-action. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

The reality television show Shark Tank makes for entertaining content but many of its underlying messages are potentially detrimental to tech entrepreneurs. I get that Shark Tank is a TV show focused on entertaining its viewers. Experienced entrepreneurs have no issues parsing where reality stops and entertainment begins.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? Then, we got written up by Time Magazine as one of the Top 50 sites of 2010.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Defining “Good” and “Great” are completely subjective to the audience you’re trying to reach, but for starters, the Internet should be filled with interesting, useful, intelligent, creative, helpful, informative, entertaining, or fun things. Ignore everything outside of the sites Klout supports.

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