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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the new media venture of former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has just published its one millionth piece of original content, and is launching an effort to extend health care benefits to freelancers creating that content for the firm. READ MORE>>.

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Demand Media Santa Monica Content 157

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JANUARY 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based Ranker , the online service which allows anyone to list and rank things on any topic, said today that it has named Mani Dhillon as Chief Operating Officer, and tapped former MySpace CEO Michael Jones for its board. Ranker said it is now getting around 4.5 million monthly unique visitors.

Tech Coast Angels 154

Tech Coast Angels Tsavo Userplane Draper 154

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APRIL 22, 2011

comScore shows Santa Monica-based Demand Media as the highest rank Southern California firm, with 76.5M Fox Interactive Media , which includes MySpace , was ranked at 19 with 55.9 unique visitors, ranked at number 12. million unique visitors. million unique visitors. million unique visitors. uniques.

Southern California 157

Southern California Sites Santa Monica Demand 157

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Santa Monica-based Science , the new startup creation and "technology studio" created by former Myspace CEO Mike Jones, said today that it has brought on Peter Pham as a Partner at the company. Pham was a critical piece of the acquisition of Photobucket for $300M by Fox interactive Media. READ MORE>>.

Southern California 168

Southern California Orange County Santa Monica SoCal 168

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, former Chairman of MySpace, said Wednesday that it has launched a new service which automatically pulls up and links to related content on web pages. Pluck was a developer of social media software for web publishers. READ MORE>>

Demand 100

Demand Content Media Santa Monica 100

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

Demand 100

Demand Sales Media eHow 100

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based NextCoupons.com , an online coupon site focused on online deals and coupons, has been acquired by Nextag , an online comparison shopping website. Raffetto is Chief Marketing Officer at BackSlash Agency and prior Director of Performance Marketing and Fox Interactive Media / MySpace, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Santa Monica 157

Santa Monica Sites Acquisition Media 157

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Sam Friedman , ParkMe (Santa Monica, mobile apps). Aaron Hirschhorn , DogVacay (Santa Monica, marketplace). Ryan Hudson , Honey (Pasadena, apps).

Southern California 279

Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. In this role, Mike oversaw global business strategy and operations for Myspace, Myspace Music, and Myspace Mobile, which included board and strategic roles with Myspace China and Myspace Japan. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Tsavo 76

Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 18, 2011

They also have a growing tech culture in Los Angeles and its adjacent cites like Santa Monica, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills as companies like Demand Media, MySpace and more recently Hulu, Mahalo, Callfire, DocStoc and BetterWorks have staked claim to the area.

Beverly Hills 113

Beverly Hills West Hollywood Mahalo Santa Monica 113

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Mike Jones may be known for his most recent role as CEO of MySpace , but this Internet entrepreneur is no stranger to the startup world. He’s had multiple exits and also advises private startups (his company Userplane sold to AOL for nearly $40 million and Tsavo Media drew a cool $75 million from Cyberplex ).

Hollywood 101

Hollywood Userplane Tsavo Santa Monica 101

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Santa Monica-based eHow, an online "how to" site owned by Demand Media, said Wednesday that the firm is seeing an increase in economy and personal finance related articles, due to the economy. Demand Media is the well funded Internet media venture of former Intermix CEO and MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt.

eHow 100

eHow Santa Monica Demand Media 100

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Santa Monica-based Social Project--which was once known as Tagworld--has been acquired by MTV Networks, MTV said Monday. According to MTV Networks, which is a division of Viacom, the acquisition will allow the firm to accelerate its introduction of its Flux social media platform across its portfolio. READ MORE>>

Santa Monica 100

Santa Monica Draper Social Media Social Network 100

Jason Nazar

APRIL 7, 2010

We’ll be welcoming as our speakers: Alon Shwartz the Co-Founder/CTO of Docstoc , Nick Wilson the EVP/CTO of Break.com , Allen Hurff the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at MySpace , Travlin McCormack the CTO of Internships.com and former CTO of Slingshot Labs, and Nitu Gulati-Pauly Director of Recruiting at Cybercoders.

Santa Monica 106

Santa Monica Break.com Technology Startup 106

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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. Demand Media also said that more than 4,300 groups have formed on the site.

Santa Monica 100

Santa Monica Statistics Demand Sites 100

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JUNE 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media company which owns Manolith, Twirlit, Kidglue, and Nibbledish, has lost its Vice President of Product and Design, Mike Macadaan. Macadaan's departure closely follows the departure of Tsavo founder and CEO Michael Jones, who recently became COO of MySpace.

Tsavo 100

Tsavo Twiistup Santa Monica Content 100

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Here's the rest. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. Former CEO of Myspace. Most recently Mike Jones served as the CEO of Myspace. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2012

Gretchen Fox, Live Nation , VP of Marketing, Social Media. Lindsay Gabler, The GRAMMYs , Social Media Specialist. Concurrent panels at several different hubs from Santa Monica to Venice and Hollywood including: Meet the Accelerators Panel, 10-12p @ Viceroy. MySpace Alumni, 10a-12p @ Hotel Erwin. Volleyball Game.

Rustic Canyon 85

Rustic Canyon CTO Coach Santa Monica Press 85

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APRIL 5, 2012

Actually, no thanks to Santa Monica-based Mobile Roadie. Michael Schneider: I was running a design agency, Fluid Design, in Santa Monica, which I started in high school. and MySpace, Ashton Kutcher, Guy O'Seary, who is Madonna's manger, and Rodger Berman. How did this all come about? I ran it for almost a decade.

Mobile 239

Mobile Santa Monica Content Tool 239

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Ian Rogers is the CEO of Topspin Media (www.topspinmedia.com), a venture backed, Santa Monica-based startup developing web applications for the music industry. What's the idea behind Topspin Media? Topspin is backed by Redpoint Ventures and The Foundry Group. We're just at the very beginning.

Media 100

Media Yahoo Startup Tool 100

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

Video chat by Stickam.com Last Friday, about 80 business leaders assembled at the Huntley Hotel in Santa Monica, CA, for CallFire’s first ever “un-conference&# called Biz2Beach. At their respective discussions, they spoke about online marketing, mobile marketing, company culture, and social media ROI, among other topics.

Social Media 71

Social Media Mobile SEO Media 71

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum.

Twiistup 228

Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. A great team from MySpace has created Gravity. Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Jason Nazar

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

Our “real life&# Angel Investor guests for this month’s event include Brett Brewer , co-founder of Intermix/MySpace, Matt Coffin , founder of LowerMyBills, and Rick Smith, Managing Director of Crosscut Ventures (a los angeles based angel fund). These events are put on in conjunction with our friends at DealMaker Media.

Startup 44

Startup Angel Santa Monica Social Media 44

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Founded in April/May 2010 by Diego Berdakin (Ex-Slingshot Labs) and Josh Berman (Ex-Slingshot Labs, MySpace Co-founder) in Santa Monica, CA. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. So we ended up with “real-time streams&# in Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blip.FM, etc. And it is the most notable media darling not making any money so everyone is asking the question – how will they make money? So did the media. was the 2-way web.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. In joining Launchpad he’s agreed to move here, which is a natural fit given their emerging set of media partners. (I went to bed at 2am at the hotel and several people were texted me to try and summon me back to the bar). We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!,

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

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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. The firm is venture and angel backed, and was co-founded by Wil Schroter, who is involved with a number of other startups here, including Affordit.

Hollywood 252

Hollywood Startup Sites SEO 252

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. mt) Media Temple, Inc. Individual clips will be posted soon.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users. Not to mention the great weather, beaches, and beautiful people.

Guide 42

Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

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JUNE 18, 2009

Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. Gregg Champion: OneCubicle.com is a social business network for people on their first, second, and third jobs.

Social Network 100

Social Network Entertainment Startup CTO Coach 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. mt) Media Temple, Inc. Individual clips will be posted soon.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75