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Friday, March 12, 2010
You have the ability to search members, see the top contributors and check out recent activity. Johnson former founder and CEO of VirtualTourist.com, which was acquired by Expedia in July 2008), Lunch’s proprietary Similarity Network engine calculates commonalities in taste and opinions among the site’s members. ...Tags: Today Lunch.com announced its biggest product expansion to date, Communities; a platform that gives people the ability to create their own personal review websites on the Lunch.com site. For their launch they
 
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly tries to expand beyond Twitter roots Blogs Im Reading Andrew Corn Barry Ritholtz Fred Wilson FT Alphaville Howard Lindzon Marc Andreessen Michelle Leder Paul Graham Paul Kedrosky Trader Mike Active Investments AdCopy
 
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
commerce was relatively flat in 2008 and 2009, but if you look at the lifestyle category, the biggest growing area within lifestyle was sports and outdoors. However, one of the nice things about being focused on products, is monetization around the activity around products is very clear. It's not a stretch to figure out how to monetize traffic, content, and activity around a product. Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. As part of that move, the firm created a parent firm called
 

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Two of the unique values of our culture at the Rubicon Project are transparency and active communication. lot of people ask me about the things that we do to promote active communication and transparency, so I thought I' Communication takes effort, but we make it a priority. Transparency is a big commitment but it's also a discipline that, while difficult at times, is incredibly beneficial. A
If you liked this blog post, please recommend it to a colleague and/or click here to get updates via email or RSS . Written by Andrew Chen September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am Posted in Uncategorized « Open mobile platforms and Facebook developer refugees Virtual Goods Summit 2008 + last week’s Twitter links » Add New Comment Subscribe : This Thread Go
Ethan Bauley of M90 said that his agency encourages clients to give active members products. I didn’t get what I was looking for from this interview, but I think what I learned is even better. I called up Kevin Fischer and Ed Weissman because they’re two of the top users of a site that was sending Mixergy a lot of traffic, and I wanted to learn how to get more.
If you want people to notice what you’re submitting to a social site, become an active user of the site, hire an active user or ask an active user to submit your article. (Though I asked Brent Csutoras to teach us how to grow our site’s traffic by using sites like Digg, Delicious and Reddit because he’s a marketing consultant who specializes social media. Download the interview to learn directly from Brent.
San Diego-based The Active Network, which operates a network of sports- and other online registration services and marketing web sites, said today that it has acquired three companies which provide hunting and fishing licensing technology. According to The Active Network, it has acquire Automated Licensing Systems, Inc, the Central Trust Bank of Missouri's Conservation Licensing Division, and its subsidiary, Outdoor Central, Inc. Financial terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed. According to The Active Network, the acquisition makes it the largest provider of hunting and fishing
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. Financial impact of the Active Network deal was not disclosed. Newport Beach-based CircleUp, which provides Web 2.0-style group messaging services, said today that it has launched a new platform to help groups communicate with their members. The new platform--billed SmartMessage--helps groups send messages among members and others.
San Diego-based The Active Network , an operator of a network of services for community, sports, and other organizations, said today that it has released a new product focused on event management. Active Network entered the events management business in January 2008, with the acquisition of event management software firms RegOnline and WingateWeb. Tags: active network The firm said its new product, ActiveEvents OnDemand, provide tools to event planners for managing conferences, meetings, tradeshows, seminars, and other events. READ MORE>> ...Tags:
Be very active on other people’s blogs. Be active on your blog. I asked Ted Murphy, CEO of IZEA , for tips on successful online marketing because he’s running a well-funded company that specializes in social media marketing. His tips: Participate in every single social network that you can.
PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. The second most active industry was Medical Devices and Equipment, which saw $103.37M in investments. Southern California, which According to the MoneyTree Report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, Los Angeles companies led the region with $385.6M in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M
Two of the unique values of our culture at the Rubicon Project are transparency and active communication. lot of people ask me about the things that we do to promote active communication and transparency, so I thought I'd ...Tags: Communication takes effort, but we make it a priority. Transparency is a big commitment but it's also a discipline that, while difficult at times, is incredibly beneficial.A