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AllSay: Using Mobile Apps To Engage Users With Decisions, with Geoff Campbell

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How do you combine the world of online and mobile apps with the world of community and political decisions and discourse? The latest thing I did was in the business development and operational area in what is now Sling TV, which just launched its linear, over-the-top service in the US with ESPN and others. We''d like to change that.

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Has Facebook Achieved What AOL Could Have A Generation Ago?

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Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post. BuzzFeed has seen their Instant Articles engage more people than any of their standard link posts and Gawker ’s founder tweeted that instant articles boosted daily uniques to their website.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. Deflationary Economics now favors us. I think it’s the era of the application.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

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On the flip-side, Assignmint is a tool for editors, which we are in the process of developing right now. It doesn’t matter who you are; you can be writing long-form journalism for Rolling Stone, doing advertorials for BuzzFeed, or you can be writing the menu for the restaurant down the street. Where do you see mobile going?

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Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical

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In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, Once you have stronger rate cards on advertising you accrue more money and you can develop or acquire more shows. AOL and the like.

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