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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Hollywood-based Geni , the venture-backed firm which has developed an online, Web 2.0-style style genealogy and social networking web sites for families, has connected the company's service with the popular Facebook social networking web site.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Los Angeles-based Boingo Wireless , which operates a network of Wi-Fi hotspots, has launched a promotion with Web 2.0 live video streaming firm Qik. According to the firms Tuesday, Qik will offer Boingo's services in a trial for 30 days, in addition to offering Boingo subscriptions to its users.

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OCTOBER 15, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni , the Web 2.0 online genealogy and family tree web site, has rolled out a number of updates today, including a bundling of its virtual gifts with its "Pro" subscription. The gift items include special graphics and messages around birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and other events.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Geni is the online, Web 2.0-style style genealogy and social networking web site headed up by former PayPal founder David Sacks; the firm is venture backed by Charles River Ventures and Founders Fund. READ MORE>>

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) If you’re an app for “normals” targeting middle America it might be good to target the USA Today or if you’re a B2B site you might target industrial rags. It’s the same thing for me as a writer.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2009

San Diego-based Websense said Tuesday that it has acquired Defensio, a provider of technology for dealing with spam on social networking and Web 2.0 WebSense said the buy would extend the firm's capabilities by providing visibility into spam posted on blogs, user forums, and social networking web sites.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2009

Los Angeles-based Geni, an online genealogy and social networking site, upgraded the firm's services last night, adding new statistics features and gift accounts. The gift accounts will cost $50, and allow recipients to gain access to the site's additional features. Geni allows users to create online, Web 2.0-style

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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 But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0, So what changed that ushered in the new era that was officially dubbed Web 2.0? Social Networking in Web 2.0: And importantly Web 2.0

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NOVEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based genealogy and family networking site Geni has rolled out a new "Family Finder" feature, the firm said Friday, allowing users to import addresses from Microsoft Outlook, web email programs like Google's Gmail and Yahoo, or other sources. Geni operates a Web 2.0

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APRIL 24, 2009

West Hollywood-based Geni said this week that the firm has improved the firm's site, which allows users to create family trees and network with family members. Geni's Web 2.0 The firm said that it has enhanced the ability to find duplicate profiles in the service, with automatic advanced searches when users view a profile.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Hollywood-based Geni , an online site that allows users to share family trees and network with relatives and family, is the latest Web 2.0 site to add "pro" accounts to their services. According to Geni, its new pro accounts will cost $50.00 annually, or $4.95

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DECEMBER 10, 2008

Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style As part of the announcement, CircleUp said it has linked with San Diego-based Active Network's eteamz division, which will deploy the new tool throughout its web sites. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others.

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JUNE 29, 2009

Los Angeles-based Livestrong.com , the online, fitness site run by Demand Media and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, reported Monday that the firm has more than 4.2 The site--which features Web 2.0-style million unique monthly visitors and now has over 1.5 million registered users.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Los Angeles-based Geni.com said today that the firm has enhanced its virtual gifts feature, the ability of the users of the family tree site to send each other birthday greetings and other gifts on the site. Geni runs a Web 2.0-style

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Calacanis has reportedly set the launch of his new site, Launch--as well as an associated, TechCrunch50-like event--for February. According to the report, Calacanis is developing a property called Launch , which will focus on deep analysis of companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2011

People are always asking me for an inside tip on Internet sites that will be “the next big thing.” Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia now lists about 200 sites by name (once over 300), which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Another important web 2.0

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Our interview this morning is with David Sacks, CEO of Geni.com, an online family tree and social networking site, as well as Yammer, the instant messaging startup spun out of Geni.com at TechCrunch50. We're up to around 2 million users who have created 30 million profiles on the site, and it's growing very fast month over month.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Also, lost of people leaving comments on websites and having a dialog with other users. Then came blogs. Did you stop reading TechCrunch?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Over 150 educational institutions are using our free screenwriting software, and we've attracted writers to our community by providing a free, web-based alternative to expensive screenwriting tools like Final Draft and Movie Magic, which charge $200 to $250 for their tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Can you believe all the talk these days about Web 3.0? I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 and I’m determined that it won’t happen again.

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JULY 25, 2012

Edward Park: When we first launched, we were a business to consumer service site. We're about a week or two from launching version 2.0, The other thing, is right now, as your volumes scale, your commission structure actually goes down on those sites. was community and content, we think Web 3.0

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JUNE 17, 2009

If you look at the site, it's comprised principally of individual bulletin boards for private companies. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0 Do the companies our your site agree to list with you, or how does that work--it seems you have a number of companies listed on the site already?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2010

People are always asking me for an inside tip on Internet sites that will be “the next big thing.” Here are my favorites: Social and business networking sites. Just for starters, Wikipedia lists about 300 sites by name, which they claim is just some of the more notable social networking sites. Online dating sites.

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JUNE 30, 2009

When I was listening, I made a point to try to do that, but when I did, I found I had to go to twenty sites to find the information I needed--whether that was to write a letter, send an email, or whatever. We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it.

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OCTOBER 2, 2008

Then, we spoke to the firm's founder, Alex Aydin, and discovered that he wasn't just your usual Web 2.0 They can come to the site, and identify where they can qualify for a loan. What's the business model behind your site? We decided it doesn't make sense to raise tons of money and spend money to establish the site.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. event I did last fall. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Those could be mobile professionals, corporate firms, sales people, or people who normally work at client sites or home based offices. We have Sometrics, which is kind of a search technology for Web 2.0, Many of those people have been stuck at home, because there were no other choices. They came here, and it worked.

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JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. George Ruan: Users who sign in to our site see three boxes. Those three boxes are categorized.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 22, 2008

We spoke with Raph Koster, the firm's CEO and founder, about the site and the new investment round. There are lots of slick entertainment platforms, but there are none that feel like Web 2.0, The virtual worlds haven't really kept pace on how end user content has driven the growth of the web. You used to be called Areae?

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Alon Schwartz

MARCH 25, 2012

The Internet evolved, became faster, reached more people, and new types of sites were created. Not just for consuming content but for sharing content (aka, web 2.0) A market Check Mate. But in the past few years things have changed. and lately for productivity and collaboration.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 You can follow Dion on Twitter.

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Frank Addante

JANUARY 30, 2007

Particularly for consumer web sites, things dont have to be perfect all of the time. We had millions of users visiting our site on a daily basis. We would quickly build a prototype of a feature, launch it on the site and instantly get feedback and make changes. At Starting Point (Startup 1.0) , we didnt have a QA team.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

I dropped out of college, and eventually, we grew the site to be the 7th most popular website on the Internet (Microsoft was #8 at the time). Eventually, the site was acquired by CMGI/YesMail.com and later sold to another public company named TechLabs. … mistake: Now finding ways to grow the site more aggressively.

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Frank Addante

MAY 8, 2006

(though, at the time, companies that we would sell to did not have an “online advertising&# budget… creating budget = not good) Starting Point was one of the first sites on the Internet to offer targeted, track-able advertising. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 14, 2006

Of course, a lot of that time was spent convincing people that the Internet was going to grow, and therefore there was going to be a need to make it easy for people to find content and sites on the Internet. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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