article thumbnail

Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

You have Demand Media here. The entertainment money cannot be overlooked either. I don’t know if LA is going to gain a reputation for entertainment startups. But nothing fancy, probably just an app that is wrapped in HTML 5. LA’s startup scene isn’t as young as the hype suggests. You even got Yahoo!

Journal 90
article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

I personally experienced the even more subversive side of DIGG when I learned that groups of people were actually demanding money to get stories on the DIGG homepage and I, the naive believer in online democracy and good intentions of people, learned about the black hat and gray hat monetization of the Internet. Video is the new HTML.”

Buzzfeed 210