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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. How do you make money in providing these services?

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Spotlight: LA Tech SuperDemo Announced! | Mike Jones Former Myspace CEO

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This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

Ian Swanson: Sometrics is a social analytics and advertising company. My partners and I were all involved in the social media space in one fashion or another. I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. How do you make money in providing these services?

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc.