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Content World Turned Upside Down

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TCOSC Digital Media Society. From GoogleTV to iTunes and YouTube to the rise of social networks to e-book readers to cloud computing and free software, the worlds of newspapers, books, music, platform games, film, television and even software have seen the sales of physical media such as DVDs plummet.

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Content World Turned Upside Down

SoCal Tech Calendar

TCOSC Digital Media Society. From GoogleTV to iTunes and YouTube to the rise of social networks to e-book readers to cloud computing and free software, the worlds of newspapers, books, music, platform games, film, television and even software have seen the sales of physical media such as DVDs plummet.

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Venture Conference Highlights SoCal Startups

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David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking. The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users.