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Debating Some of the Issues of Our Time with Dmitry Shapiro

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We talked about how his new company, AnyBeat , will be a difference kind of social network. What the NetFlix changes were all about and the economics behind this. He’s back in the game as an entrepreneur and this time he wants to take on Facebook. Or does he? We had a chance to discuss many issues of our day.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them. Yet a tiny 13 person company called Instagram, leveraged the massive growth of mobile to create a new social network. The same is true for distribution of content: YouTube and NetFlix are now viable options for releasing original movies and TV Series.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. We talked about the analogies between what NetFlix achieved in movies and whether this is relevant to the book market. Social network app developer and ad network. Total raised: $56.3mm.

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Distribution is our revenue model, but the hook is the marketing. That's how we make our money.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

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Or, depending on your definition, perhaps as early as Space Ghost Coast to Coast , the mid-1990s Cartoon Network series featuring an animated superhero interviewing real celebrities. “Algorithmically generated content and how things like generative adversarial networks are being used to create and synthesize new photo and video content.”

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Why Hulu is the OPEC of Online Video

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It has just been released to wide audiences November 2010 – mostly in response to the growing popularity of Netflix and ironically the introduction of the ABC.com player on the iPad. In Hulu it is each individual studio / network wanting to push their own stuff direct rather than through Hulu.

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9 Subscription Model Variations To JumpStart Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. Network model. All-you-can-eat content model.

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