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The makers of the virtual influencer, Lil Miquela, snag real money from Silicon Valley

TechCrunch LA

McFedries, brud ‘s founder and chief executive, confirmed that the Miquela account had been hacked in a text exchange with me, writing, “some redditor idiots hacked the page we think.” It feels like we’re not going to put the genie back in the bottle, so we’ve got to learn how to leverage these tools in positive ways.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

SoCal CTO

This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest. Here’s how to do it.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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The Work of Film Through Technology: Interview with CG Supervisor Morris May

Tech Zulu Event

One of my favorite examples of this would be Robbin Williams as the CG animated genie in Aladdin,” exclaims Morris excitedly. Interaction is removed (often), making it easier to record snippets and pieces to animate to as the scenes evolve through the on-going writing and production of the film.