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New Paths Toward Convergence

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Sophisticated digital consumer devices such as the iPod, Xbox, Archos PMP, and Mobile Smartphones along with the broadband networks that connect themhave quickly moved the distribution of content to the digital world. An entirely new industry is being formed.

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How Catalog Is Helping SMBs Compete Against Big Brands

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We caught up with Catalog's co-founder and CEO Patrick Ip , along with co-founder Jacobo Lumbreras , to learn more about the startup. Patrick Ip: My background is I spent the last three years at Google, working on advertiser retention for small and medium businesses. Patrick Ip: I was in San Francisco for the last five years at Google.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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As you know, today, video is one of the primary means of communications from a personal, corporate, and entertainment level. How is this different from a typical content delivery network (CDN)? For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth. Who are your core customers?

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Interview with Phil Ressler, BigStage Entertainment

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They want a means of representing themselves that is animated, and changeable, and actively communicates in places like MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks. One problem with other avatar technology, is that in most competitive cases what people are doing is using a standard head model and trying to apply a face to that model.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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They help find talented film makers globally, enter them into competitions and advance the best of them toward winners that get to produce full-length films. easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube). It’s entertainment. It exists precisely because there is a network. Think creatively.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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A very big thanks to Alexandra Harris, the founder of FanCause , a company that aims to connect entertainment brands with their fans to raise money. However, if you’re going to start a company and be an entrepreneur, you need to network and you have to hustle. to find someone they know who knows an investor, network and get an intro.

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