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

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It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate.

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

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To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. Steve Banfield: What will become Rightside has been part of Demand Media.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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One of the side effects of the war over Flash, has been with advertisers--particularly in Hollywood--who rely on Flash to help display their advertising banners and video to users. What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. It certainly has challenges.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product. We tried to use third parties, but rich media companies are great ad serving agencies, but not so good at serving publishers.

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Jetpack Grows In New York

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Santa Monica-based rich media advertising technology developer Jetpack is expanding in New York, saying this week that it has opened up a new office New York City, and hired a new VP in the location. Jetpack develops advertising technology which is used to help publishers deliver advertising using HTML5, responsive and other tools.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. Do you need to process user-contributed media? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do we want to use something like SendGrid in order to help with delivery? Do you need help getting hosting going?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Still, if you've not heard these questions from a developer, they are not helping you as much as they should. Do you need to process user-contributed media? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do we want to use something like SendGrid in order to help with delivery? Do you need help getting hosting going?

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