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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Hollywood-based Cocodot , the online invitations site run by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, said this week that it has partnered with DKNY , for a collection of fashion cards and invites. Tags: cocodot dkny online invitations myspace fashion invitation card evite. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Hollywood-based Cocodot , the online invitation card site headed by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, has rolled out new, printed invitation cards, according to the firm's website. Tags: cocodot invitation printing content evite invite party printed myspace. for a 25-card minimum. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Hollywood-based Cocodot , the online invitations startup headed by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, has made a subtle shift into the e-commerce sector in recent days, adding jewelry, chocolates, gifts, and more to the site.

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Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

I wouldn’t bet against MySpace. They attract over 70 million people a month (just in the US), and by most accounts are still one of the 10 most popular sites in the world. I know many of their founders and early employees, and one of the co-founders of Intermix (the parent company of MySpace) is an investor. MySpace = Yahoo2.0:

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the parent company of Buzznet, Celebuzz, Stereogum, and a network of other sites, is in the midst of expansion, saying this week that it has hired on four new additions to the firm's advertising team. and Michael was most recently at Fanscape, and also had been at MySpace.

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JULY 14, 2010

Hollywood-based Cocodot , the online invitation and greetings site headed by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, said today that it has unveiled a new invitation and greeting collection along with women's fashion retailer Lilly Pulitzer. Cocodot is backed by Anthem Ventures, Mailroom Fund, and Rincon Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. But, there was no good for Hollywood to find them. Let's talk a little bit about the intersection of technology and Hollywood. Can you talk about what you've seen?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

According to MeUndies.com, users can sign up for a membership to the site, and are see fashionable underwear--either for men, or women--delivered every month, unless a user decides not to receive that month's purchase. the business incubator/studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. The company is backed by Science, Inc.,

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2010

According to Bing, it has released a new version of its site which focuses on music, gaming, movies, and TV. Tags: hollywood content entertainment microsoft bing. Microsoft's search engine, Bing , is enhancing its searches for an area of interest to lots of Southern California firms--entertainment and media content.

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DECEMBER 23, 2008

Hollywood-based VIDiGREET.com , a publisher of online video greeting cards, has launched a new line of video cards, the firm said Monday, based on the content of comedian Liam Sullivan. The "Kelly" character has been featured on YouTube and Sullivan's site, LiamShow.com.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Overture never built the destination site to monetize from. So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. So my guess is that Tweetup needs to go “multi-stream&# (as in Facebook, MySpace, etc.). In fact, their affiliate partners dissuaded them from doing so.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Artists basically come to our site, we allow them to create a free account, and once they log in they have a number of self publishing tools, which allow them to upload their music and artwork. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In November, Michael Jones, the former CEO of MySpace, announced his plans for Science Inc. For example, if you know the show Entourage, we've got Vinny Chase's house, to post and beam modern castles in the Hollywood Hills.What's amazing, is you rent Vinny Chase's Spanish mansion for only $2000 to $3000 a day for an event.

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APRIL 5, 2012

Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. and MySpace, Ashton Kutcher, Guy O'Seary, who is Madonna's manger, and Rodger Berman. The luck was Taylor Swift signing up organically in late 2009, which was our first major artist. They can get all of that information through our dashboard.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. MOVIECLIPS allows fans to find, watch and share more than 12,000 movie clips from the libraries of the major Hollywood studios. The company has opened its API to approved sites for distribution and approved developers who want to build games, etc. with the clips.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

And thats not even counting MySpace, which Rupert Murdoch famously paid $580 million for in 2005. AdWords is on Google.com, AdSense is a distributed platform across many different Web sites where if youre a small publisher and you put AdSense on your Web site and someone clicks, you get part of the revenue and Google gets part of the revenue.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Next → For one reason or another, people in this country tend to look down on LA.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We've been quite active, and have had a bunch of acquisitions lately -- including Internet Brands and MySpace -- a total of over 2 billion in acquisition in Southern California. You just have to have an iron stomach to deal with the time it takes to get things done with Hollywood. We really believe in the market.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

For those who haven't tried your service, tell us the story behind the site and how you started it? Why and how do people use your site? You can go to Mogreet.com or go to our wireless web site, at wap.mogreet.com , or use your cell phone on any number of carriers, such as AT&T, Verizon, etc.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

The importance of people finding things through friends, and access through music blogs, discovery through music sites or Pandora and other ways is increasing. The trend, on the macro level with iTunes or whatnot, is we're still going to see tons of interesting products--like iTunes, Imeem, MySpace Music, and more to come.

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