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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. READ MORE>>.

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

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What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. That allowed us to gracefully and organically scale the company, using that revenue. Some companies even stopped running some rich media, because they already had all of what they wanted in that initial banner.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

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How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Mark Sylvester sat down with us to talk about the new project, and how it's applying what they've learned building their visual analysis tools to the world of Facebook and social media.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

” Clearly, the right time to trumpet your product is when it can live up to the media hype. Learn HTML. According to Mark, “I wasn’t effectively leading my sales organization. Literally, (we received) hundreds and hundreds of in-bound inquiries, with no idea how we were going to talk to these people.”

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

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For all those who want to talk about the fragmentation of media and the models for journalism is in trouble; it’s actually not. Whereas that used to take maybe hours of hours of your time to organize and with us you can just spend a few minutes and you’re done. Where do you think printed media is heading? Digital media?

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My Professional Advice for 20 Years Olds

Jason Nazar

Social Media is Not a Career – These job titles won’t exist in 5 years. Social media is simply a function of marketing; it helps support branding, ROI or both. Social media is a means to get more awareness, more users or more revenue. I’d strongly caution against pegging your career trajectory solely to a social media job title.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. Join local organizations like OCTANe , TechStars or Launchpad LA. That’s OK.

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