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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

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To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. The HTML5 platform that we use is also available as a self service tool to customers. We offer up customers a high impact creative which is not bounded by the box. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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What is a Content Delivery Network and What Types of Businesses Should Leverage It?

Southern California Edison Blog

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of edge servers that accelerate website speed and content delivery by hosting content physically closer to customers via points of presence (PoP). Read More: Best Network Setups for Media Content Delivery. What Business Advantages Does CDN Traffic Services Provide?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Do you need to process user-contributed media? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Do you need to process user-contributed media? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Dismissable?

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

Social media will be pervasive in the enterprise and is primarily driving by customer interactions. When asked what their objectives are they cite some form of “improving customer communications” by a long margin. .” The WWW is the presentation layer.

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