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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

socalTECH

They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud. His latest startup, Factual, is aimed at the data mashup and open data market. which he sold to AOL.

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Chartbeat is to Blogs as Google Analytics is to Print Newspapers

Both Sides of the Table

I was recently over at the Mahalo offices in Santa Monica and I noticed that they had a great big screen TV with Chartbeat displaying their traffic data. For Mahalo this often means making modifications to the story in real time both to update any facts and to improve SEO on a story that is already becoming popular.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). We have accomplished much yet have much work to do. But in this case Chamillionaire stole the show.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., Founded in January 2004, Weblogs, Inc.

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Story Crawler

Daradiction

Plus the market has moved in his favor and he’s in a great position to crush it. One of the benefits of networking for me has been connecting with so much talent, and the icing on the cake is being able to beta some of these bleeding edge products before they hit the market, giving me a competitive advantage.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

socalTECH

The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media. savvy, we have every social networking credential there is, and we've integrated those sites into the API. The lightbulb went on at MOTM (Editor's note: Kurt's project to network technology executives in Southern California).

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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks. Leverage a worldwide community to enable a perfect market for outsourcing activities like online research, writing, & content review.