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Stroome Scores $200K From Journalism Contest

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Stroome said the site provides a place where journalists, filmmakers, musicians, students, sports enthusiasts, travelers, activists, and bloggers can upload, edit, and remix video through their web browser. Tags: stroome contest journalism video remix editing. READ MORE>>. READ MORE>>.

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

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Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. I have been on every end of the business in terms of journalism and publishing. Journalism is stronger than ever, but the outlets are fragmented.

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Demand Media Launches New Content Channels

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The new offering takes Demand's sometime controversial process of tailoring web content based on search and other interest of web users, and creating low-cost articles specifically to address that content. Tags: internet journalism channels content media demand. READ MORE>>.

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Web 3.0 Brings a New Wave of Startup Opportunities

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This is the current dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who invented the (first) World Wide Web. He calls his dream ‘Web 3.0’ or the ‘Semantic Web,’ meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Web 3.0 As you search the Web, the browser records your interests in your local storage.

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. There are lots of video sharing and editing sites and services--what's the key difference here, and what have people found is the most interesting thing here? It ran in April of 2008. No one is really offering that kind of collaborative solution yet.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? However, it's a very large market--we peg it at around $11 billion a year, and some estimate it to be as big as $20 billion a year, including scientific journals, academic journals, scientific societies, and conferences. That's what SciVee is focused on.

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DreamHost Receives $18M Loan from J.P. Morgan

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Downtown LA-based DreamHost, a provider of web hosting and site management, announced Oct. 30 it completed an $18 million debt financing credit facility with J.P. Morgan Chase and Co.

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