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Userplane Extends Chat App

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Santa Monica-based Userplan has extended the firm's chat applications, saying Tuesday that the firm will connect users of its chat application across different web sites, regardless of where they are on the web. The developer of web widgets said that the cross-platform chat is available on any social networking with an open API.

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MySpace Names Jones, Hirschhorn To Exec Team

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Jones is best known in Southern California's technology community for his success at Userplane, which he founded and sold to AOL. He was most recently CEO of Tsavo Media, which is developing online publishing and advertising technology along with related online content. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections On 2017: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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Coinbase has developed a seamless platform for secure cryptocurrency transactions and has over 10 million users with more than $50 billion in digital currency already  with so many users, you know they can't be wrong. Coinbase, the online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency.

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A Cocktail of LA Tech | Tech Cocktail Winter Mixer

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The evening’s networking and mingling continued with the room of entrepreneurs, technologists, bloggers, technology enthusiasts, investors, and the local technology companies being showcased by Tech Cocktail. Potential employers, developers, investors, designers, and more in one room, eager to exchange cards and more than a few words.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

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To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products.

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Spotlight: LA Tech SuperDemo Announced! | Mike Jones Former Myspace CEO

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This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. They will sell out quick so grab them while you can. Diamond Sponsor.

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