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CityGrid Slashes Staff

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In the latest cuts among Silicon Beach's high tech community, CityGrid , which runs Citysearch, Insider Pages, and Urbanspoon--has laid off a chunk of its staff, including a significant number of Los Angeles employees.

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When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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From there, you will generally see a pop-up dialog similar to the following (this one is from CitySearch): Once you click Connect, the original site now knows that I’m Tony Karrer from Facebook and the various demographic and friend information from Facebook. do not provide access to the email address. Take a look at Startup Metrics.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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Yet in LA we have hugely successful entrepreneurs who have built big companies like Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, TicketMaster.com, LowerMyBills, Commission Junction, eHarmony and on and on. Responsive Low Hanging Fruit – I view email in the category of urgent but not (always) important. I hear it all the time.

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mobileStorm Snags Engineering Director From MySpace

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mobileStorm, which provides mobile and email marketing services, said that Pedowitz will be responsible for developmentof the firm's next generation platforms. Pedowitz also has served at Citysearch and Warner Bros. READ MORE>>

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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They decided early to only book very high quality vendors so they build a system that could pull in Yelp & CitySearch reviews and they set the standard that it had to be highly rated. I could tell you what’s next but then I’d have to kill you.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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I always ask the question, when I've brought a concert ticket, if I'm going to get an email from the venue, or from a Ticketmaster or Live Nation. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry. Finally, what's next for you? Scot Richardson: Music is. We currently reach 1.3

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He’s been steadily emailing me for the past 18 months with ideas for local entrepreneurs I “have to meet&# and has been egging me on to spend more time in Seattle. We have all of the 2nd-time entrepreneurs from Overture, CitySearch, MySpace, etc. Dave is ex-Amazon and is a tireless advocate for the Seattle community.