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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? One thing with AllSay, is it looke like Buzzfeed did in the early days. Editors use Buzzfeed and read the news, to find proposals and decisions, and use the news as a source. We''d like to change that.

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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. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne. OTHER DEALS: 1. Total raised: $29.5mm.

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Render Media: Creating A Digital Publisher In The Social Age

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The people who we our content and videos in are essentially connected, mobile, have their phone with them all the time. Everyone carries their phone around, and 70 to 75 percent of the traffic on our site is all mobile. Many publishers have been wringing their hands over declining CPMs, shift from desktop to mobile, etc.

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

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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. Since almost everyone has a mobile device nowadays and an app is available for almost every news media agency. Where do you see mobile going?

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. It will be a follow on from my “App is Crap” or “Web Second, Mobile First” blog posts but in short, video, updated, digestible formats. And yes – I know I need to plug in my mobile phone.

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