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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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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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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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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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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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The Best Restaurants in Los Angeles

Jason Nazar

I’ll spend time on Citysearch and Yelp trying to find good new spots to try, but my preference is still to get great recommendation from friends. I eat out almost every meal.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

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Places are rated pretty well--you've got Yelp taking care of that, CitySearch, and other sites doing that really well. We picked up a bunch of blogs, emailed them, and have gotten a really good response rate. I had become increasingly frustrated that there was no rating system for people. That's everything in the direct noun space.

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