Hulu's April Fool Joke: 1996 Web Design
socalTECH
APRIL 1, 2011
Visitors to Los Angeles-based video streaming service Hulu Friday were greeted with a surprise "redesign" of the web site, as part of a Hulu April Fool's gag.
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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites
InfoChachkie
DECEMBER 10, 2012
I reached out to Michael after their surprising day at the top of Hacker News during early September. The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. According to Michael, the Hacker News exposure was completely unplanned.
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Mafia Sourcing – How Insider’s Game User Generated News
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
I arrived on this scene wet behind the ears assuming that the web was, as it seemed to me as a user, powered by the masses for the masses. I had previously believed that the world of user-generated news sites were run on a open, crowd-sourced model. I know the more experienced consumer web people will be laughing about now.
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PublishThis Powers Cox Media Site
socalTECH
APRIL 22, 2013
Los Angeles-based PublishThis , the developer of publishing technology which is headed by Matt Kumin, is powering the content for a new Cox Media site, the firm said today. PublishThis said it is behind the new Rare.us site, which is focused on politics, news, and lifestyle content for the center-right.
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Frameworks Round 6
TechEmpower
JULY 2, 2013
July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. We are hiring.
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Myspace Rolls Out New Mobile Site, iPhone App
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 30, 2010
The firm--which is currently being revamped by CEO Michael Jones into a new, entertainment focused portal--said the updated site creates the "best experience for Myspace mobile web users". The new mobile site works with iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Palm, and certain Nokia and BlackBerry devices. READ MORE>>.
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182 BUZZMEDIA Partners With Photo Sharing Site Plixi
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the online publisher of entertainment focused blogs and web sites, said today that it has linked with photo sharing site Plixi , which until recently was known as TweetPhoto. READ MORE>>.
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Yahoo Links With Producer Of The Office For Web Series
socalTECH
APRIL 12, 2010
Online web portal Yahoo has inked a deal with Reveille , producer of The Office, Ugly Betty, The Biggest Loser, and other shows, for a new online series, the firms said today. According to Yahoo, the new original web series, Who Knew? The new web series is being sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales USA.
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Frameworks Round 3
TechEmpower
APRIL 22, 2013
We''ve previously posted two rounds of results of benchmarking many web application platforms and frameworks. With that breadth we decided to move the project''s results to a stand-alone site separate from this blog. A reader has posted this blog entry to Hacker News, and we invite you to comment there. View Round 3 results now.
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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? Prior to starting PublishThis, I was the General Manager for Edmunds.com, the automotive site here in Santa Monica.
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TweetUp Adds Topix
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2010
Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising play of Idealab's Bill Gross, said today that it has added news site Topix to its network. TweetUp allows Twitter users to bid on keywords to bring their tweets to the top when users search for information on different web sites. READ MORE>>.
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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Now when we run a promotion with our new partner and get a thousand users coming in at one time, it grinds to a halt.”. Web application performance is a broad discipline.
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GotCast Launches Effort For Streamy Award, HollyScoop
socalTECH
MARCH 3, 2010
Los Angeles-based GotCast.com , the online casting site run by Alec Shankman, said today that it has launched two talent searches for on-camera roles, for The Streamy Award, and HollyScoop, a syndicated TV show and site focused on celebrites, music, and fashion news. READ MORE>>.
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SodaHead.com Swizzles Site
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 11, 2009
Encino-based SodaHead.com , the venture backed, online questions-and-answers site, has swizzled its web site, saying this week that it has redesigned its site to make it easier for its users to find topics. in June of last year.
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Internet Brands Buys Two Web Sites, Looks To Future Acquisitions
socalTECH
OCTOBER 28, 2008
Los Angeles-based Internet Brands disclosed Tuesday as part of its earnings report that the firm has purchased two web sites, BensBargains.net, and GrooveJob.com. The firm also said it has acquired another unnamed site, which was completed subsequent to Q3. on those web site buys. on those web site buys.
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DailyFill Takes On Celebrity News
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
Santa Monica-based Slingshot Labs , the startup incubator headed by MySpace co-founders Josh Berman and Colin Digiaro, officially rolled out its first web site this morning, DailyFill. The new site is the latest in what seems to be a surge of celebrity-focused content sites. READ MORE>>.
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100 Big Stage Inks Another Partnership, With Splash News
socalTECH
DECEMBER 12, 2008
Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment has inked its third partnership of the week, saying yesterday that it has tied into Splash News, a provider of celebrity news and photos.
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RotoHog Wins Sporting News
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2009
Los Angeles-based RotoHog , which develops fantasy sports games, announced Monday that the firm has signed on Sporting news, to create fantasy games for the brand. Financial terms of the multi-year agreement were not disclosed.
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Stroome Scores $200K From Journalism Contest
socalTECH
JUNE 22, 2010
Los Angeles-based Stroome , which is developing an online community for collaborative video editing, announced today that it has just won $200,000 from the 2010 Knight News Challenge. The Knight News Challenge is a contest which helps to fund digital news experiments and technology.
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171 Verve Powers Newspaper Site
socalTECH
JULY 15, 2009
Encinitas-based Verve Wireless is powering a new web site launch for local news publisher Examiner.com, as Examiner.com said it has launched a new mobile site, m.examiner.com. According to Examiner, the mobile site will highlight content produced by the firm's US coverage.
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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers
InfoChachkie
MAY 27, 2013
As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Similar to their prior guerilla-marketing stunt, their April Fool''s Day posting topped Hacker News. Don’t Over Sell It.
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HitFix Raises $1.6M
socalTECH
JUNE 28, 2010
Los Angeles-based HitFix , an online web site focused on entertainment news and information, has raised $1.6M in a new funding round, according to investor the Tech Coast Angels. Hitfix focuses on news, interviews and commentary on all aspects of entertainment. in Hitfix, led by investor Yuri Pikover. READ MORE>>.
PublishThis Enhances Content Curation Tool
socalTECH
MARCH 13, 2013
According to the firm, the company's technology is now analyzing over 100 million data elements and 300,000 sources per month to help its clients organize the best and most useful content from around the web.
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171 Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome
socalTECH
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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187 MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets
socalTECH
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. MindJolt offers up a broad catalog of casual and social games from its site.
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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal
socalTECH
JULY 7, 2010
Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.
Frameworks Round 1
TechEmpower
APRIL 30, 2013
You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure.
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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses
Tech.Co
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Selz currently offers three monthly pricing plans which allow you to create your own store using its platform, or attach Selz' smarts to an existing site. It also offers a $599 per month “Do It For Me” option which will see Selz' own team of developers build a bespoke site to your specifications. App required. ?.
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134 BuzzFeed Partners With CNN, Sets Up Studio In Los Angeles
socalTECH
MAY 29, 2013
Online viral news and media site BuzzFeed is further expanding its operations in the Los Angeles area, and has set up a "social studio" in Los Angeles to help "influencers, thinkers and celebrities" to create videos for the social web. buzzfeed entertainment content jobs news employment social video youtube' READ MORE>>.
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145 Demand Media Launches New Content Channels
socalTECH
AUGUST 6, 2010
The new offering takes Demand's sometime controversial process of tailoring web content based on search and other interest of web users, and creating low-cost articles specifically to address that content. According to Demand, it is providing the service to both Hearst and USA Today.
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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2012
From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. We saw that one third of Americans under 40 have started using satirical news sources as replacements for news from someone like Fox News or CNN. READ MORE>>.
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230 Hollywood Interactive Gets $5M
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Hollywood Interactive Group, which develops an online web site for celebrity and entertainment news, said Thursday that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. The roudn came from BlueRun Ventures.
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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak
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. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so.
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225 Rubicon Serves Up A Trillion Display Ads
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
Rubicon Project's services are used by web publishers to pick the best ad networks to run on a specific page of their site, based on the return predicted from that ad network.
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159 CarsDirect Refreshes Website
socalTECH
MARCH 3, 2011
In the latest makeover of one of the original, Web-based automotive sites, Los Angeles-based CarsDirect has updated its website. The site includes better navigation features, more research and in-depth specifications and reviews, articles, breaking automotive news, and more. READ MORE>>.
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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers
InfoChachkie
MAY 27, 2013
As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Similar to their prior guerilla-marketing stunt, their April Fool''s Day posting topped Hacker News. Don’t Over Sell It.
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153 Rubicon Project Raises $18M, Buys Fox Audience Network
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has raised $18M in additional funding, and acquired the Fox Audience Network (FAN) from New Corporation. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M. Tags: rubicon project news audience network merger acquisition venture capital advertising. READ MORE>>.
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Soylent Unveils AI Bot, Starts Accepting Bitcoin
socalTECH
MARCH 7, 2017
According to Soylent, its new "nutrition-obsessed artificially intelligent spokesperson" will appear both on its virtual store on its site, as well as other channels, including broadcast, digital social, and beond. The new "bot" was created by marketing/creative firm Wieden+Kennedy (W+K).
Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits
socalTECH
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. Early on, we realized that because Twitter was having issues keeping the site live and up, we needed to solve that for our users in order to build our business.
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Rubicon Project Bolsters Executive Ranks
socalTECH
MAY 10, 2012
Rubicon develops software which automatically optimizes the ads displayed on web publisher's web sites to increase revenues for those sites.
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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup
SoCal CTO
MARCH 12, 2012
"I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. The bad news is that they can get a good paying job anytime. The good news is that likely is not what they want.
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211 Connecting People Over Food, With SupperKing and Kai Stubble
socalTECH
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.
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SoCal CTO
APRIL 1, 2009
I am excited to be participating in and announcing the of: Southern California Tech Central This is a community of people in Southern California who have come together to help find and organize the best content from blogs, news sources and other web sites all around technology in So Cal. And perhaps to stimulate new connections.
Interview with Jennifer Sargent, HitFix
socalTECH
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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