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Stacking Up The Online Film Submission Sites

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Last night, Amazon.com jumped into the movie business, with its own, online film submission site, Amazon Studios , backed by the help of a number of notable USC Film School advisors. million in awards over the next year to the best movies submitted to the site--with an exclusive option for Warner Bros. Founder: Rick Parkhill.

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USC Startup Weekend | Complete Breakdown

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USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Site Unseen. Site Unseen is a mobile app that serves as a personal tour guide for exploring a city. 70+ students. Neighborly.

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Interview with Tim Sae Koo, HypeMarks

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Are you the sort of person who relies on your friends to help you figure out the best places to explore on the web? That's the idea behind HypeMarks (www.hypemarks.com), a new startup looking to tap into your social graph to guide you to the web. I'm a person that loves discovering new stuff on the web. What's your background?

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CreatorUp Links You With Top Filmakers & YouTube Creators To Make Awesome Web Series

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CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. Who are its founders? What inspired you?

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? Noah, thanks for the interview.

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Stroome Scores $200K From Journalism Contest

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Stroome said the site provides a place where journalists, filmmakers, musicians, students, sports enthusiasts, travelers, activists, and bloggers can upload, edit, and remix video through their web browser. The Knight News Challenge is a contest which helps to fund digital news experiments and technology.

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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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. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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