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Stacking Up The Online Film Submission Sites

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Summary: Amazon.com's own entry into the online movie contest business, Amazon Studios said it will award $2.7 Despite coming from Amazon, the local involvement is heavy, with USC's School of Cinematic Arts heavily involved, as well as other local entertainment execs. Hollywood Heavyweights: Jack Epps, Jr., Founder: Dmitry Kozko.

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Mobile Internet Apple Facebook

SoCal CTO

The analysts at Morgan Stanley have produced a report that’s quite good reading on some of the major trends concerning mobile web. And it’s interesting that while they talk about the impact of Facebook, they don’t quite seem to recognize the impact of Web 2.0, Those things likely are not mobile. social networking, etc.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. In LA we have entertainment, finance, textiles, aerospace, transportation, fashion and so forth.

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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What follows is a summary which paraphrases Clark’s responses. However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In We have a lot of entertaining content… but that tends to be the stuff that takes off at the earlier stages.

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Fanhattan | Search Movies & TV Shows in One Place

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There are many iOS users out there that know about Fanhattan already, but Fanhattan is finally being developed for the World Wide Web. The web version is currently in its beta stages, but seems almost complete. The biggest difference between the web and iOS app is the size of movies and shows available.

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

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The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. I would see this many times of the next decade where I learned that nearly every part of the web that involved monetization was immediately gamed and arms races emerged between platforms to combat abuse and people looking for a quick buck.

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The Most Interesting Online Video Trend

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Summary Version. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ And to those who keep telling me that the CPMs are too low to make a business please stop thinking about two-way entertainment in only CPM terms. It’s entertainment. 200 million views. Suck it traditional TV. Engagement.

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