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ValueClick, Specific Media Rise In Ad Network Rankings

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Two local online advertising businesses--Westlake Village-based ValueClick , and Irvine-based Specific Media --are showing growth in the latest comScore ranking of advertising networks. Tags: valueclick specific media online advertising. The two are just behind Google, which had 164.5M uniques for April.

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How ScoreStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market.

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How SportStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. While there, I was approached by a guy with an idea around sports statistics, and we spent about two months to figure out what was interesting about the sports market.

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Disney Accelerator Alumni StatMuse Picks Up $10M Round

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StatMuse develops natural language search software and a social interface, which helps fans push out statistics about their favorite teams; the company currently has a deal with the NBA to offer up its service to fans of the league. The round also included former NBA commissioner David Stern and the United Talent Agency.

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Livestrong.com Releases Traffic Stats

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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.

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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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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

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Statistically, you are 10x more likely to get hired through a referral by an employee than a non-referral. We also take advantage of all the information human resources has provided us, and look, we know that someone else you know works at this company, or maybe knows someone who used to work at that company, and can vouch for them.

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