Pringo Upgrades Social Networking Software
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008
Los Angeles-based Pringo, which develops white label social networking software for enterprises, said earlier this week that it has launched a beta of its latest version.
Cornerstone OnDemand Adds Social Networking Features
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OCTOBER 17, 2008
Santa Monica-based Cornertone OnDemand, a provider of software-as-a-service tools for human resources management, said this week that it has added new social networking features to the firm's product. The new product provides online communities, user profiles, blogs, and wiki features for business collaboration.
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MySpace Goes Real-Time On Google
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FEBRUARY 16, 2010
Updates for users on Los Angeles-based MySpace 's social networking service are now being indexed by Google in real-time, according to Mike Jones , Co-President of MySpace. Tags: myspace google social networking real time index search. READ MORE>>.
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Yekra Raises $3M For Video On Demand Platform
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MAY 9, 2013
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. The funding came from Maurice Gallagher, Bray Capital, Shay O''Brien, and Michael Rogers. READ MORE>>.
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HipGeo Launches iPhone App
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
The firm's app shares routes, places, photos, and other content with others, which can be shared with user's social networks, embedded in a blog, and more. The firm said that the HipGeo app for iPhone allows users to record what they did during the day, and then share their trips and stories with others.
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Lunch.com Adds Personalized RSS Feeds
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site run by J.R. According to Lunch.com, the new feed can be added to blogs, personal sites, or elsewhere to help users promote their content. Tags: lunch social networking questions answers reviews ratings feed. READ MORE>>.
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Websense Buys Defensio
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JANUARY 27, 2009
San Diego-based Websense said Tuesday that it has acquired Defensio, a provider of technology for dealing with spam on social networking and Web 2.0 WebSense said the buy would extend the firm's capabilities by providing visibility into spam posted on blogs, user forums, and social networking web sites.
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Near Networks Tackles Online Video For Local Businesses
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
According to Near Networks, it will help connect local businesses with filmmakers, to create YouTube videos, embed video channels on their website or blogs, and to share their videos via social networks. READ MORE>>.
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Audiolife Gets $1M In Bridge Funding
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MARCH 10, 2010
Audiolife's software allows artists to sell downloads, ringtones, CDs, and other merchandise from their web sites, blogs, or social networking sites. The company said the funding will go to hire key personal, further develop its technology platform, and for strategic partnerships. Audiolife is headed by Brandon Hance.
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EQAL Launches Social Publishing Tool
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JULY 30, 2009
According to EQAL, its new platform is focused on helping those producers and talent to create their own web sites, with features such as blogs, discussions, forums, and user profiles, as well as links to social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. READ MORE>>.
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Interview with Brian Norgard, Namesake
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MAY 4, 2011
We started with the initial idea of building vertical, B-to-B social environments, and soon figured out that was a terrible idea. Dan and I, my co-founder, obviously have social networking and advertising backgrounds. And, it is a social network. A social network without people is an oxymoron.
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Confident Technologies Unveils CAPTCHA Tool
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MAY 14, 2010
The firm said the tool is targeted for use by e-commerce sites, blogs, social networking sites, and Web-based email, as well as other web services. The company--which is headed by Curtis Staker--said its image-based CAPTCHA alternative greatly increases website security and user experience.
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Quub Upgrades Android Client
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AUGUST 17, 2009
Irvine-based Quub , which is developing status-update and presence software--that integrates with the Twitter micro-blogging service and other social networking web sites like Facebook--said last week that it has made a couple of upgrades for the firm's Android client. Tags: software twitter blogging micro status quub.
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Passenger Gets Win With NYSE Euronext
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JUNE 4, 2009
According to Passenger, the new community will provide NYSE information and economic reports, live chats, surveys, and blogs, and will allow IR professionals to share ideas and other opinions with NYSE Euronext. Tags: passenger online social networking software nyse euronext. READ MORE>>.
Insights and Opinions: Idealab and the Bill Gross Legacy
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DECEMBER 13, 2011
I thought I would take an opportunity on this blog to move away from some of the current investment and startup trends, reflect, and dive into the tech history books (as well as my own personal history) by looking at the man and place I believe really put the modern southern California tech community on the map: Bill Gross and Idealab.
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JuiceCaster Links With Photobucket
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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. JuiceCaster said that Photobucket will also be a featured channel on its flash player. READ MORE>>
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100 SodaHead Partners With Technorati
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APRIL 20, 2009
Technorati is an online site which provides a way to search and browse blog posts. SodaHead operates a web site which combines a way for users to ask and answer questions about different topics with social networking and community features. Financial details of the partnership were ot disclosed. READ MORE>>.
How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison
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JANUARY 4, 2013
We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency. What is Frequency? Finally, what's next for you?
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232 Docstoc Connects To Twitter, Facebook
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MARCH 27, 2009
The new features allow users to automatically post a link in the Facebook social networking site or the Twitter micro-blogging service with any upload or download of a document.
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Intent.com Launches Wellness Site
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OCTOBER 24, 2008
Santa Monica-based Intent.com said Thursday that it has launched a new web site focused on wellness and social networking. The site--which was co-founded by Deepak Chopra's daughter, Mallika Chopra--said it is looking to create a community of like-minded members, blogs from wellness experts, and other curated online content.
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NOVEMBER 24, 2008
Hollywood-based, music-related blog and content firm Buzznet has reportedly cut employees, according to a report from Digital Music News. Buzznet operates an online social networking and social media site focused on music and bands, and is backed by Anthem Ventures, Interscope, Redpoint Ventures, and others.
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EQAL Launches HarpersGlobe.com
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MARCH 10, 2009
According to EQAL, the "social show" incorporates videos, photos, and blogs and social networking features which tie into characters and the story from CBS's Harper's Island, which is premiering on April 9th.
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100 Shopit Raises $2.5M
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OCTOBER 23, 2008
Shopit develops software which can be embedded in social networking profiles, blog pages, and on other web pages for selling products. The funding came from Toronto, Canada-based Emerson Ventures and Propulsion Ventures. ShopIt said that the round is the first tranche of a $7M capital raise planned for the firm.
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Uber Shuts Down
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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. Uber developed software used to upload, organize, and share content through a free web site; the site also provided photo galleries, slide shows, videos, and blogs. READ MORE>>
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100 ClipBlast Gets Win With KickApps
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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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Goodreads Adds Status Updates
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OCTOBER 8, 2008
Santa Monica-based Goodreads, a social networking site focused on book readers, said today that it has rolled out a new feature which allows users to provide status updates. The new feature also allows user to synchronize the status with Facebook and Twitter.
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mEgo Raises $2.5M
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JANUARY 21, 2009
mEgo's avatars allow users to share photos, videos, wishlists, and other information and embed those into social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and other sites and blogs. Tags: angel avatar social venture profile software capital networking mego. According to Johnston, the firm has now raised $5.5M
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100 EQAL In Deal With Creator of 'CSI'
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MARCH 2, 2009
EQAL will be in charge of the book's web site , which will launch later this year featuring a blog, social networking features, audio files, videos, photos, and more. The partnership revolves around Dark Chronicles, a series of crime novels being published by Dutton in September. READ MORE>>.
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100 YouMail Rolls BlackBerry Voicemail
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FEBRUARY 4, 2009
The firm said the application allows users to scroll through incoming voicemail messages, see information about the call, listen to the call, or forward the voicemail to a blog or social networking web site, among other features.
Interview with Alex Capecelatro, Hyphos
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. Alex Capecelatro: Hyphos is a social discovery platform. What is Hyphos?
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. You could use it to break down language silos in those social networks. It also supports blogs.
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Interview with Kieve Huffman, Dather
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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. Tags: interview startup music entertainment social networking kieve huffman. READ MORE>>.
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213 Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits
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APRIL 14, 2011
I ended up passing on the Twitter investment, but I put out a blog post at the time--I was working for CBS--asking if someone would want to build it, and a kid named Soren MacBeth emailed me back saying he'd build it, which started the idea of StockTwits. We've just added a layer on top of all the social networks particular to finance.
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248 Altly Posts Anti-Facebook Manifesto, Gets Funding
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MAY 25, 2011
Los Angeles-based Altly , the latest startup of Dmitry Shapiro , the founder of Veoh and former CTo of MySpace Music, has officially thrown down the gauntlet, saying in a blog post this week that it there is a need for an alternative to Facebook--and the firm is going to create that alternative.
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160 DreamJobbing: Melding Online And Media To Create A Platform For Dream Jobs
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OCTOBER 3, 2014
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. In some cases, it will be a full time job. We''ll cover that job through our website, through Dreamjobing.
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Interview with Rob Farrow, Chi.mp
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MARCH 17, 2009
The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. There are so many social networking sites, how do you define what's relevant?
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147 J.R. Johnson On Critical Mass and Communities
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MARCH 1, 2011
A lot of the feedback we got from those users was that community was a killer, we love these communities, can we put them on our own site, on our own blog, can we skin the community so that it's in our own look and feel, and can we put all these features on our own site. So that's what the Lunch Network is.
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242 Interview with Sean Rad, Founder, Ad.ly
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DECEMBER 16, 2009
One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. A lot of the controversy revolves around the notion that Twitterers are more part of a social network than content creators.
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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit
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JULY 20, 2015
In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. We had all been talking about how this object in the middle of a social network was being very important, with Gripe and Cheer built around those objects.
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Flipagram: Using Photos And Music's To Create A Viral Machine, with Farhad Mohit
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JULY 20, 2015
In 2012, we decided to pivot again, aiming at the same group of consumers, turning into Cheers, a positive social network, kind of the opposite of gripe. We had all been talking about how this object in the middle of a social network was being very important, with Gripe and Cheer built around those objects.
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100 Interview with Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, EQAL
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JANUARY 21, 2009
Los Angeles-based EQAL (www.eqal.com) launched into the online world in 2006 with the creation of the YouTube sensation "lonelygirl15," the fictional video blog of a teenage girl. Miles Beckett: Our company EQAL is a social entertainment company, which means two things. We really believe in the community side.
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113 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California
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AUGUST 28, 2012
Social media. Social networking. Social games. blog comments powered by Disqus. Blog Software. Streaming media. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone. Google Plus. Interviews. Guest Post. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. Advertise on VentureBeat. most popular. most shared.
Interview with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton, PromoJam
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MARCH 29, 2012
Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. Basically, we've built a platform that allows businesses to build social media promotions across multiple social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Linkedin.
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Interview with Brandon Hance, Audiolife
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MARCH 24, 2010
We allow them to have virtual store fronts, portable stores, which they can place on their social networking profiles, on their own dot com, on their blogs, and so forth--anywhere fans already interact with the artist. That includes digital downloads, ring tones, CDs, and other merchandise.
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