SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

And here's where you can find more events: SoCalTech Calendar – A great aggregation of events around Southern California that has been pulled together for years by Ben Kuo. Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog.

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MAY 9, 2012

According to Lijit, which is part of Federated Media, it has linked with FinDTheBest to provide customizable widgets and Wordpress plugins which allows blogs and other sites to embed comparisons of different products within those sites. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 20, 2009

Los Angeles-based Buzz Media , the online network of celebrity-focused web sites, announced today that it has inked a deal with OK! Buzz Media--which was formerly known as BuzzNet--is a venture backed operator of a network of pop culture, celebrity, and music-focused web content properties and blogs.

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MARCH 8, 2011

Anthony Batt , the founder and Chief Creative Officer of BUZZmedia , has joined Katalyst , the digital media studio founded by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg. The firm creates programming for television, film, and the web. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 5, 2013

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.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Guardian News & Media , the firm behind web publisher ContentNext , is in discussions with potential buyers about a possible sale, according to a report from the firm's own site, paidContent. Ali had founded the blog after he lost a job immediately after September 11th. Names of potential buyers were not discussed.

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MAY 2, 2014

To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the auto pricing data firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Friday that it is looking to measure the ratings of the "hottest" vehicles from its data, with a new web service called TrueBuzz.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Michael Jones , CEO of MySpace and former founder of Userplane, has another exit under his belt today, as AOL announced it has acquired Thing Labs , a San Francisco maker of web-based, social software. Thing Labs makes the Brizzly web-based software for sharing and discovering content. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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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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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. They didn't buy it because of the financial content, they did it for the web video expertise. Through Howards investment in betaworks, he also owns early shares in Twitter.

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. Demand Media also said that more than 4,300 groups have formed on the site.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based JuiceCaster, a provider of a mobile social networking application, said Wednesday that the firm has inked a deal with Photobucket, the online photo sharing site owned by Fox Interactive Media. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>

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DECEMBER 4, 2008

According to ClipBlast, users of KickApps' video player and widget software can use its technology to search and embed videos from other video sharing sites onto their blogs, message board posts, and member-to-member messages. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. ClipBlast indexes and allows users to search for and find videos.

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JULY 2, 2009

Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.com the online health and fitness joint effort between cyclist Lance Armstrong and Demand Media, said today that Armstrong will be adding exclusive content, including blog posts, videos, and photos, to the site as part of the 96th annual Tour de France.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 2, 2009

Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media firm run by former Userplane founder Michael Jones, said Monday that it has officially launched a new web site focused on searching the popular Twitter micro-blogging service.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. What's the idea behind Topspin Media? Topspin is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group. They're still important, but they're decreasing.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Los Angeles-based Uber, the online social networking web site run by former Friendster CEO Scott Sassa, has shut down. According to the firm's web site, as of September 29, the firm's investors have decided to stop supporting the site, and the company has closed its doors. Uber blamed the crisis in the economy for the shutdown.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Next Generation Online Marketing Strategies, a new guide to Web 2.0 He is a former Southern California high tech executive, and recently penned this post on his blog, which he gave us permission to reprint here. online marketing strategies. Is Twitter still "the future of online marketing"? Or is it just a 21st century babble machine?

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Web 2.0 Guide Southern California High Tech 145

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform.

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MAY 27, 2010

For this morning's interview, we have an interview with Kieve Huffman , the co-founder of Dather (www.dather.com), a new Los Angeles startup which has created a tool which helps to aggregate social networking web sites and media. Kieve Huffman: My background, and that of my business partner is digital entertainment and digital media.

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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. Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media.

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MAY 24, 2011

I actually worked in the offline business world until Web 1.0. We have done lots of social media campaigns, and we have really collected with the music ecosystem, such as labels, bands, venues, press, management, and street teams. What's your background and how did you get into this? Vic Caretti: It's rather diverse. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. In fact Paige Craig has coined it Silicon Beach.

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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? How is this different than the movie clips floating around the web now?

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MARCH 24, 2010

For today's interview, we spoke with Brandon Hance, the firm's founder, about how his startup is helping musicians to sell both digital and physical merchandise on the web. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. Is this installed software, or web technology?

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AUGUST 28, 2012

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JULY 23, 2010

Matt Edelman: The last company I ran and co-founded PeopleJam, which was a social media business for people interested in self improvement. There are many style and fashion blogs, and are in a space to become influencers for women, however, none of them as of yet have as much influence as people who actually influence those bloggers.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

The company is employing a network of documentary filmmakers and high quality, Hollywood production capability here in Los Angeles to produce small business videos in HD for the web and YouTube. There's been a huge push to engage local businesses, to get them involve din social media, but video has yet to catch up.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I re-connected with Andy Liu the founder & CEO of BuddyTV – the largest destination for social TV enthusiasts on the web. Every region needs its local media & events. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. They haven’t launched their next gen product – watch this space.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

Developments Blog. There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. These days, there are more Internet guys at the Vanity Fair Oscar party than traditional media players.". WSJ Web Slice. socaltech socalcto Commercial.

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