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JUNE 16, 2009

Macadaan's departure closely follows the departure of Tsavo founder and CEO Michael Jones, who recently became COO of MySpace. Tsavo develops content-focused web sites which apply technology to serve up more relevant information and advertising depending on who was visiting those web sites.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Among features of the new people search service is a "unified profile" which keeps track of social networking web site profiles and presents them in a single profile, pulling information from sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace into a single location. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Santa Monica-based Slingshot Labs , the startup incubator headed by MySpace co-founders Josh Berman and Colin Digiaro, officially rolled out its first web site this morning, DailyFill. The new site is the latest in what seems to be a surge of celebrity-focused content sites.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has released traffic statistics for its LIVESTRONG.COM web site, its joint venture with cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying that the site now has more than 4 million monthly visits and over 650,000 registered members. The site, which launched in June, is focused on health, fitness, and related information.

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APRIL 17, 2010

Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. The ten companies selected for the programe are: • AccessDNA : – Think WebMD for genetic information. As our knowledge of the human genome expands and our appetite for genetic information grows exponentially I think the team here is going to rock it. with the clips.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Dr. Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower Dr. Tony Karrer is the CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web, and eLearning development firm.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. If anybody is to show ads you then need to decide: banner ads (how’d that go for MySpace?),

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JUNE 18, 2010

In particular we talked about how 3rd-party apps have a lot more access to your personal information than you think – especially if a friend of yours gives access to an app it can inadvertently give that app access to your details, too! Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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JUNE 30, 2009

FreedomSpeaks is a startup developing a business around connecting people with information about their political representatives, and also enabling organizations and others to do the same. We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. It was a pain.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

s own backyard into one central online hub, rich with all the resources and information that L.A. from PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills , Shopzilla to Myspace and some great exits without much community around it,” said Berman. “To (BILA) is an online community for digital tech entrepreneurs and innovators. has to offer startups.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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socalTECH

MARCH 17, 2009

The firm recently relocated its headquarters from Hawaii, and we talked with Rob about why someone might need the service, how it's different from the scores of social networking sites on the web, and what problem it's trying to solve. MySpace--even though I'm a little old for the MySpace genre--is incredibly powerful.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

I was surprised to learn that the reason she asked me to come see her was to help the school with a problem with sexting, Facebook/Myspace and cyber-bullying. We are huge proponents of the Internet, so the last thing we wanted to do was scare them and stop their kids from benefiting from using the Web. Verizon rocks!

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. When we look at Twitter we’re following friends or people from whom we want to know more information.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Instead of browsing Web pages, he says, users will browse streams of information from different sources - mainly Twitter - but also Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and the like. TechZulu caught up with TweetDeck Founder Iain Dodsworth during the LeWeb conference with the Traveling Geeks.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Ross Levinsohn is a board member at FatTail and a venture capitalist at Velocity Interactive (www.velocityig.com), and headed up Fox Interactive Media's buy of MySpace. On a different topic, tell us the story behind MySpace--that seems to have boosted your profile quite a bit and thrusted you into the limelight--how did that happen?

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Advertising Media Startup Woodland Hills 100

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2012

Taylor actually came in through the front door, and just signed up on our web site. They can get all of that information through our dashboard. and MySpace, Ashton Kutcher, Guy O'Seary, who is Madonna's manger, and Rodger Berman. Michael Schneider: It's a combination of luck and timing, and great investors, really.

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Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric Bjorndahl: At the highest level, we're a social networking web site for travelers. The most compelling part of our site is it's possible to find travel buddies online through our web site. At the time, there were lots of social networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace, but there weren't any sites based on travel.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling. used in a very wide range of both web and mobile services, from Foursquare, to Yelp, to LivingSocial. However, that's not always the case.

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Southern California Software Artificial Inteligence Company 66

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 27, 2010

If you are like me and have pictures, videos and other information all over the web but then forget where you uploaded what, then MyWeboo might be something worth checking out.

Social Network 40

Social Network Content Networking Web 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

There's the problem with finding the right instructor, finding other friends who wanted to learn surfing with me, finding something that would fit my schedule, getting information about pricing, all of those things. Down here, we have Allyson Pizula, who was at MySpace, and was there for a number of years before going to Adconion.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Why did MySpace lose to Facebook & what can Twitter learn from this? Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. The Present Era.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. The idea is we do not want to go down the current path of the Web 2.0

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Startup Research UCI Social Network 100

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 LinkedIn has been great to keep track of people I know and their current contact information. Weve also found that other social networks such as FaceBook and MySpace to have almost no results when it comes to recruitment. event I did last fall.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Citysearch is an online guide that offers information and recommendations regarding local businesses including restaurants, shops, bars, hotels, and others. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA?

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

We looked around for literally eight to ten months, by having a couple of young people bring us companies, research papers on potential industries, and other information every day. When we've tried to call for an intern, no one pays much mind. You might be able to FAX something in, to have them put it on the board, and hope someone sees it.

Startup 223

Startup Content Sites CTO Coach 223

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For my site, I made a few icons using badges I’ve found around the web which you’re welcome to download and use (please don’t link to mine, right-click, save-as, and upload for yourself). Adding it to my list… would make a great post, no? Thanks for the comment! do you need help? whats the process?

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JavaScript RSS HTML Doc 29

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month).

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Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

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JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. Real-time information drives commerce.

Platform 307

Platform News Startup Invest 307

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

For example, Excel was able to read files from Lotus, and was able to save the file without losing any information. Pricing information. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. Marketing materials. Going to trade shows.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285