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

Tech Zulu Event

You have Demand Media here. You even got Yahoo! But nothing fancy, probably just an app that is wrapped in HTML 5. Since you have been in LA for a bit…what is your take on LA’s future in the startup world? JK: I think LA’s startup scene will have a number of rock star exits. LA is an editorial-heavy market for startups.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Thanks in advance!