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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based Xfire , the online social networking and chat service aimed at gamers, said this morning that it is making it easier for users to capture and share videos of their game play, and post it on a YouTube channel.

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Gigmor intends to reinvent the ways in which musicians and bands are connected with paid gigging opportunities and the way industry talent buyers discover new talent through its social network for musicians, bands and industry talent buyers. Each participant will be booked via the Gigmor platform’s event feature.

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MARCH 25, 2011

According to the firm and Santa Monica-based production firm Optimus, United Online is launching a national advertising spot focused on the newly renamed and refocused nostalgia business. Optimus said United Online started running their commercial spots this week, on national cable, syndication, and network TV. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Santa Monica-based Image Metrics , a developer of facial animation technology, announced Thursday morning that it has acquired Big Stage , the developer of avatar creation software. Those avatars could be used in virtual worlds, video clips, video games, and for social networking sites. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the developer of cloud-based, customer contact management software headed by former Goldmine founder Jon Ferrara, said this week that it has been doubling its month over month revenue since launching its paid platform, and now has over 40,000 registered users. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Santa Monica-based LifeCrowd , the social activity discovery site headed by Bong Koh, said Friday that it has expanded into three new regions, and launched officially out of Los Angeles accelerator MucherLab. LifeCrowd has been offering up its service in Los Angeles since September. MuckerLab is headed by Erik Rannala.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Santa Monica-based Docstoc , the venture funded web-document sharing firm run by Jason Nazar, has connected the firm's document sharing service with Facebook and Twitter updates.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Santa Monica-based Userplan has extended the firm's chat applications, saying Tuesday that the firm will connect users of its chat application across different web sites, regardless of where they are on the web. The developer of web widgets said that the cross-platform chat is available on any social networking with an open API.

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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.

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MAY 28, 2009

Santa Monica-based Goodreads , the site focused on social networking around books, reports today that it has rolled out a new feature which shows the most popular books for a given publishing date. Goodreads is angel backed, with backers that include angels like Michael Jones, True Ventures, and others.

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JANUARY 14, 2009

Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Anthem Ventures is the lead investor in an avatar-focused, social networking site called Meez. Meez, which is based in San Francisco, said today that it has raised a financing round from Anthem. Anthem's Brian Mesic has been added to the firm's board as part of the funding.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

Santa Monica-based Goodreads, a social networking site focused on book readers, said today that it has rolled out a new feature which allows users to provide status updates. The new feature also allows user to synchronize the status with Facebook and Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Los Angeles technology crowd turned out in full for last week's Twiistup 5 event--a showcase for startups looking for exposure and funding--with over 1,000 attendees at a private aircraft hangar at the Santa Monica airport.

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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. Why did you decide to start yet another social networking site?

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MARCH 17, 2009

Rob Farrow is one of the co-founders of Chi.mp , a new startup which is getting set to launch a service to allow users to manage their profiles across the many sites on the Internet. We had a concept around creating a platform, using open standards, to resolve lots of the issues surrounding social networking and the issues of identity.

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In between that, I was formerly at the private equity firm Clearlake Capital, out of Santa Monica, which manages 8 billion in private equity investments. We're focused a lot on the e-commerce site, because we're not a social network, and we're really a social commerce platform that connects into everyone's favorite social networks.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

We recently spoke with Tyler Koblasa , Founder and CEO of Mingly , a Santa Monica-based startup which is pulling together contacts from multiple sources, and adding such tools as contact reminders, to-do lists, and alerts based on those contacts. Tyler told us about his startup and what it's up to. What is Mingly all about?

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MARCH 5, 2012

Dog owners can browse through the site, and find the best options for their pet. So, back in November and December we started putting together the site you see, which enables everyone to do this. It's a great way to share your positive experience on the site. Aaron Hirschorn: It will be a fully integrated site.

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MARCH 5, 2012

Dog owners can browse through the site, and find the best options for their pet. So, back in November and December we started putting together the site you see, which enables everyone to do this. It's a great way to share your positive experience on the site. Aaron Hirschhorn: It will be a fully integrated site.

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MAY 26, 2011

We can provide customers with what they've come to expect from the Internet from travel and other sites -- why not bring those same benefits to dental consumers. Basically, the dentists in the network have contractually agreed to deliver these prices to enrolled members. In Santa Monica alone, there are 300 dentists in the network.

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Solaborate is a blend of great social network platforms, by taking in all the greatest bits and putting it all into one. Consumers all have access to social networks, but the business-side has never really caught on. Like I said, Santa Monica and LA are the hotspots for startups. Why not Silicon Valley?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Fan Appz, a Santa Monica headquartered firm founded in 2010, and a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) today Tuesday launched its Personalized Marketing Platform, a next-generation social media marketing solution set to help firms convert fans into customers and increase repeat purchases by turning good customers into great ones.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). People got their knickers in a twist when they saw people like Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble having advertisers and endorsing brands on their sites. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. Then came blogs.

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JUNE 21, 2011

He's again set his sights on contact management with a new company, based in Santa Monica, called Nimble (www.nimble.com). Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today. That is relationship nirvana, my vision of social business.

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