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CityGrid Media Buys BuzzLabs

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West Hollywood-based CityGrid Media , the unit of IAC formerly known as CitySearch, said today that it has acquired BuzzLabs , a social media monitoring and sentiment analysis software developer. The company explained that it would be integrating BuzzLabs' technology into its platform over the next three to six months. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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The problem with one of those is, as a venue, you can build a beautiful website, and click to buy tickets--and you're on a completely different, branded site. We are launching a music vertical, which is very similar to our comedy site. The other competitors out there in the small venue ticket space are TicketWeb and Etix.

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How Luxury Link Is Growing Its Travel Marketplace, With Scott Morrow

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Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. We partnered with a big management platform, integrated in our back end, and scaled out our keywords exponentially. If you look at Luxury Link, our demographic is very attractive.

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

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Ethan had pointed out to me that merchants were being barraged by “deal site” wanting to drive customers in the door but they didn’t have great tools to manage their customers. MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses. So there you have it.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

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If you look at the articles on a site like CNN, and the 650 opinions you see after every article, your eyes just start to go crossed. We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform. The owners of a news site or blog can then install our plugins on their site, via all six lines of Javacript.

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Interview with Sam Rogoway, Near Networks

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Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons. At TripUp, we had lots of user generated reviews and hotels, and we were the first to add user general video to a travel community site. Where do those videos get distribute? Finally, what's the next big goal for the company?

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Make sure to check out Both Sides of the Table !

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