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MAY 21, 2014

Are you a content creator for the web? It turns out, nowadays, creating the content is only a small part of your job description The most successful YouTubers, studios, brands and agencies today are intensely focused on using social media to engage with fans, get that content out there, and grow their audience.

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APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. Are there particular technologies or platforms involved? They shouldn''t be showing you that they don''t care at all about looks and content on their own site. What do they do after the web site is launched? Do you have the functionality defined?

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OCTOBER 3, 2014

Lisa Hennessy: The short one liner answer, is it''s a robust, digital platform that broadcasts once-of-a-lifetime job openings and experience, which everyone can apply for. Lisa Hennessy: It''s much more than a website, it''s really a platform. How is this different than how most shows use the web and online today? READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product. What applications and web sites have you been using? if that was my chosen messaging platform.

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APRIL 7, 2014

Los Angeles-based content delivery network operator MaxCDN said this morning that it has integrated its platform with a website firewall provider, Sucuri. maxcdn firewall network content delivery sucuri ddos' Financial details of the link were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 20, 2010

Search engine giant Google is entering the television guide and consumer electronics market today, saying at the Google I/O conference that it is working with Sony, Logitech, and others on embedding technology to search for and view both web and television shows within devices.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Despite the huge surge of content specifically being developed for the web--and for sites like YouTube--making that content profitable and sustainable continues to be an issue for content creators. Josef Holm: Tubestart is a crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, web series creators, and for digital video in general.

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AUGUST 19, 2014

Los Angeles-based Sidevision (www.sidevision.com) has developed a set of tools--aimed at content creators, multi-channel networks (MCNs), and others--to help connect online videos with e-commerce. Justin Wu: We integrate with any video platform, such as YouTube, Vimeo, Kaltura, and we''re built on top of an API. How do you do that?

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APRIL 30, 2012

The firm has been fairly quiet recently, but apparently in the last few months has retooled itself as an "educational startup", focused on providing courses on the iPad, iPhone, and Android, in addition to YouTube, the web, and Apple's iBook platform.

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JUNE 29, 2010

According to Demand, Banks' beauty and entertainment firm Bankable is in a deal to develop a Web site, online video offerings, and mobile applications. Demand Media said the new property will be "inherently social, highly interactive" and leverage its content creation platform, social media tools and application development tools.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. We all wanted intros.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based CrownPeak , the developer of software-as-a-service, web content management tools headed by Jim Howard, said today that it has rolled out a major upgrade to its platform. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010 -- Digital LA - Design Goes Cross-Platform. Join us for our panel discussion on designing GUI across multiple platforms: web, phone apps, iPad, etc. See [link] (more).

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MAY 9, 2013

Yekra says its system helps match content to viewers by genre, by digitally distributing entertainment through different web sites, blogs, social networks, and other destinations. yekra venture capital funding digital entertainment content' The funding came from Maurice Gallagher, Bray Capital, Shay O''Brien, and Michael Rogers.

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JUNE 30, 2014

I also added a little Soundcloud widget on the sidebar (if you’re viewing on web – not on mobile or RSS reader) that you can listen to each episode with. He said that Tastemade views it more as a programming challenge than a challenge in changing the content itself. If you don’t know Joe, you should.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. It's fun, I guess.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

Los Angeles-based Pluto TV , which is developing an online Internet TV platform aimed at curating live TV entertainment for Internet users, said Wednesday afternoon that it has signed up a roster of over 20 new content partners fro the service. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 5, 2011

CityGrid said the buy would help it aggregate and analyze millions of pieces of content across its network, and provide that data to its publishers and merchants. The company explained that it would be integrating BuzzLabs' technology into its platform over the next three to six months. BuzzLabs was based in Seattle. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Are regular users contributing content or only system administrators? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? How do you measure success? Arbitrary new pages?

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JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. But, how do you figure out what actual content will resonate with online consumers? I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

What special data, content, APIs, etc. Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Are regular users contributing content or only system administrators? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? How do you measure success? Arbitrary new pages?

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? They all depend on EdgeCast to deliver content to their customers, anywhere they are, on any device. We've grown really fast. There's complexity in being a CDN.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

Gravity develops real-time, personalized web pages based on what consumers are most interested in, serving up personalized content on everything from iPad apps to web pages.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. Who are you on the web? It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. you’re not following him?

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Social Networking in Web 1.0: History repeats itself.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Keith Bonnici: We have created a platform that lets standard web publishers tap into the growing pool of money being spent by app developers to market their products. All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms. You see users moving to a platform that doesn''t monetize advertising as well.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Culver City-based Jukin Media , which licenses and distributes viral, user-generated content for the TV, web, and other platforms, has inked a new content deal with Japanese MCN UUUM , the two announced this morning. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Global audiences of prosumer video producers will create content that is viewed by global audiences in numbers far in excess of traditional TV. The problem with the “long tail” content is that only the platform provider (ie YouTube) makes money. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″

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JUNE 30, 2011

Their view was that HTML5 would allow them to replace the notion of having to download a Facebook App into your phone or tablet, and release them from the idea that they have to have nine different apps on different platforms, and have to maintain all of them. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

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MARCH 1, 2011

The firm said its platform allows users to create their own QR codes, to be used on printed business cards, menus, advertisements and other items, which will allow users to connect to content via its iPhone app and online. Paperlinks is the publisher of the identically named iPhone application. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

The company went from a venture backed high tech startup to an IPO as a publicly traded firm, and over its time has battled the perception of being a "content farm", suffered through Google and its Panda update, and now has emerged as a major content partner for Google, via YouTube. Our whole goal is to create content for real life.

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JUNE 30, 2010

We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. They wanted to use the platform we had developed in a class called Mashup Culture. We've been in discussions with news organizations to use the platform, including with large organizations and journalism sites. It ran in April of 2008.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Having done lots of those, I realized that there was a really great opportunity, from the standpoint of harnessing the higher quality in streaming platforms. I founded NowLive a year ago, dedicated to producing and streaming live, professional events for the web and mobile, and anchored interactive. What's unique about NowLive?

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JULY 27, 2010

San Diego-based VMIX , which develops online video management tools and software, announced today that its platform is being used by NASA. VMIX said that NASA is using its online video platform to power multimedia content on the www.nasa.gov web site. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. It was user generated content for travel, but back in 1999, before we'd really seen the movement toward user generated content. How long has Lunch.com been running?

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