Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is intended for product & tech people – mostly people who want to build cool stuff on the Twitter platform and it will showcase some really cool stuff that has been built on Twitter. Who are you on the web? Think about your local news anchor saying, “if you want to get in touch email me at xxxx.”

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Not only has he become the richest man in the world again, leapfrogging a certain Mr Musk, but it has also been revealed that Amazon has quietly acquired ecommerce platform Selz. In fact, ecommerce website builders and platforms have become seriously big business over the last few years. It's been a big week for Jeff Bezos.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.

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MARCH 13, 2013

The firm said the latest version of its platform is aimed at brands, retailers, media companies, and trade associations, to help them scale their content efforts across digital channels. PublishThis , the Los Angeles startup headed by Matt Kumin, has enhanced the firm's online, content marketing and curation management tool.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. So, they let me start StockTwits.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Platform G / Mindjolt. www.mindjolt.com). Venture backers : Austin Ventures.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

We spoke with CEO Kai Stubble to hear about how SupperKing is looking to create a service--inspired by collaborative consumption sites like Airbnb--which will let people host meals in their homes for strangers, to get to meet new people, show off your cooking skills, and hopefully make new friends. First, what is SupperKing all about?

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

We spoke with CEO Kai Stubbe to hear about how SupperKing is looking to create a service--inspired by collaborative consumption sites like Airbnb--which will let people host meals in their homes for strangers, to get to meet new people, show off your cooking skills, and hopefully make new friends. We turned that into a social platform.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. They're not ill informed, they're just short on time and think the news networks are biased.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Good news for new music fans wishing they could get access to the Earbits music discovery service on their Android phone: the firm just released its Android app this morning, bringing its flavor of music discovery and streaming to the smartphone platform. The app--which required Android 2.2 READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. Social Networking in Web 1.0: By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. It was mostly timing.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. Platforms eschew threading and then re-invent threading anew. Anyone who has been around the web development block is going to tell you that they select technologies with some balance between coolness and pragmatism.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

What was the biggest news for you this year? We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Don't bet on any one platform.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. Tech News, powered by Make It Work on CBS’s KNX1070 was our first show. After Tech News, we run Jeremy’s Desktop.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

I called this trend “ Torso TV ” because the “head” of consumption (largest number of views) was dominated by platforms that had massive distribution (think TV stations, radio or retail outlets that sell CDs and DVDs. It made national news. Maker was contacted by every major news outlet. think Apple.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Diverse search results include stream updates, blog posts, news articles, photos, videos (versus Twitter/FaceBook1 only). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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APRIL 23, 2013

One of the folks in media who has been helping to define that shift is Cenk Uygur , the head of Culver City-based The Young Turks (www.tytnetwork.com), and online news and politics show. Cenk Uygur: We do news coverage, and dominate the field online. We operate the largest online news network overall, with about 1.25

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MARCH 2, 2010

Alec Shankman: Gotcast is the largest online interactive casting platform. News, ABC competition game shows, feature films, etc.--people Some are on our site, some exist on the brand's web site. We sat down with Alec the other day to hear more about the company and what it's try to do. At a high level, what does Gotcast do?

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based SendLove.to , a new startup headed by Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, debuted today, saying it will provide a "people-polling" platform which will allow users to rate and share their opinion on people in the news. Lyman and Brundage were most recently at Fonality. As part of the launch, SendLove.to

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JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. We spoke with Jennifer about what HitFix is looking to do, her own background, and how HitFix is different from the many celebrity gossip and news sites out there.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 3, 2017

ScoreStream, a San Diego area startup providing a crowdsourced social media platform for reporting high school sports scores, said Thursday it has agreed to distribute high school game scores under a new collaboration agreement with The Associated Press.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

We looking our studio system and listening platform, and figured out many thousand travel articles we could write for them, worked on the format, and found writers, who had been reviewed and rated, with at least five years of travel writing experience to help. We own all of that content, and are putting it anywhere in any format.

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DECEMBER 16, 2009

One of the perpetual themes of the technology news sites and blogs this year has been fairly nonstop coverage of Twitter, the microblogging site. Sean Rad: I started another company called Orgoo, which was a unified communications platform. We do view Twitter as a social network, but also as a content broadcasting platform.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 7, 2012

All content is being digitized: movies, books, TV, news, music, games. Tablets and a multitude of new platforms will gradually replace paper. The Web, not the local bookstore or movie theater, will be the place where most people get most of their content. Wednesday, June 13, 2012 -- Contentric. Content is Morphing.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 4, 2011

If you’re a big supporter of indie films or web series you’re probably checking out your favorites on a variety of different sites on the web. has provided a platform since 2005 for indie producers, distributors and advertisers to provide viewers with this kind of content. The folks over at Blip.tv To date, Blip.tv

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? 1) Mobile web. The current incarnation of the mobile web changes what the Internet IS to users, and the manner in which it is incorporated into their lives. (2) Earlier today, we talked with Greg Martin at Archer Venture Capital. 2010 was very good to us.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2019

Read on for news of recent financings, plus upcoming opportunities to connect with the local tech community. —Ezoic, a startup that developed software for web publishers that uses machine learning techniques to personalize layouts and ad placements for site visitors, raised $33 million to further develop its technology.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Los Angeles-based Pluto TV , which is developing an online Internet TV platform aimed at curating live TV entertainment for Internet users, said Wednesday afternoon that it has signed up a roster of over 20 new content partners fro the service. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

MAY 16, 2024

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Verifying Looking for regular tech news straight to your inbox? This year Tome was also named one of Fortune’s Top 50 Innovators, increased its total funding nest egg to $81 million, and launched a new paid subscription plan – Tome Pro. Calendly Calendly is an online scheduling platform popular among business and personal users.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. They introduced Mingly for Gmail , a powerful browser plug in that unifies all your social networks into one address book with the ability to set reminders and send messages across different platforms (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

In 2008, he founded StackOverflow , and it has become the foundation for a question and answer platform called StackExchange. They didn’t focus on building for the web and they lost a great opportunity to win the transition to browser based applications. Building on top of platforms. His Tenure at Microsoft.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? Given SVBs market position, that is great news. But its even better news for the regional SoCal innovation ecosystem. The common thread  these entrepreneurs describe a compelling vision of how they are poised to transform an industry.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information. We''re in four major U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2011

With as many as 100 million active blogs (web logs) in English alone on the Internet, how can you find and read the ones you need to be a leader in your business domain? Almost every traditional major business news site, like Forbes.com , Entrepreneur.com , and HBR.org have blogs which are contributed by experts in different business areas.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

What's your new startup all about, and why did you start the company? Gil Elbaz: What we have been working on, and what we offer now, is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data. But, really, we are a platform that offers so much more--specifically around collaboration and deeper data technology. How does that work?

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