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95 Articles match "Content","Santa Monica"
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
The second event late February '10 was "Going Goo Goo over Google Analytics" and was held at Mahalo's office in Santa Monica. Search the twitter hashtag to find links to recaps and video of the content. Despite threatening weather, five of us had a brisk nearly 3mi round-trip walk down the beautiful Beverly Gardens Park along Santa Monica Blvd. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. We're now doing around 20 million people a month to Docstoc, and wanted to leverate that to create a marketplace where you could buy and sell professional content. We launched Docstore about four or five months ago with a number of premium partners, including LegalZoom, We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. Jason is also
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Alec Shankman is CEO of Santa Monica-based Gotcast (www.gotcast.com), an online site focused on casting of actors for television shows, movies, and other productions. Alec Shankman: It's an interesting space, because a lot of folks came out and tried to blend technology and Hollywood by creating content portals. There was some beautiful web sites that were built, but I know from my time as The firm is venture and angel backed, and was co-founded by Wil Schroter, who is involved with a number of other startups here, including Affordit. We sat down with Alec the other day
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
For many publishers high quality images drive the content. Without them content becomes flat, yet another article floating out there amid the endless web. Tags: News funding gumgum mike jones santa monic Image licensing startup GumGum has secured an additional 2.6 Million in funding led by GRP Partners.
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
Santa Monica-based DECA has raised $10M in a new round of funding worth $10M, according to a regulatory filing. DECA is a digital media studio which produces online video content. Tags: video hollywood content venture deca capita The funding was led by new investor Rustic Canyon Partners, with participation from Series A investors Atomico, General Catalyst Partners, and Mayfield Fund. The firm's CEO, Michael Wayne, confirmed the funding with socalTECH, but said that the company would not be making any official comments until a formal announcement next month.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Santa Monica-based DECA, a venture-backed, digital entertainment studio, said this morning that it has become the exclusive business and production partners for teen brand SMOSH, a leading provider of humorous videos on YouTube. According to DECA, it will provide financing, ad sales, marketing, distribution, and provide other business operations for SMOSH, which was created by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. DECA said that SMOSH has over 555,000 subscribers on YouTube, in addition to operating its own web site.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the new media venture of former MySpace chairman Richard Rosenblatt, said today that it has just published its one millionth piece of original content, and is launching an effort to extend health care benefits to freelancers creating that content for the firm. The firm claims that it is now one of the largest producers of content on the Web, distributing that to an audience of more than 80 million people. According to Demand Media, it now has more than 6,000 freelancers creating content for the company's network of sites via its Demand Studios arm.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
ve spent the last year running a tech company based in Santa Monica , CA and I’ve spent countless weeks in the Bay meeting with hundreds of tech founders. Michael Arrington – undeniably the hardest worker, obsessive about his product and content
Is there a difference between tech startups in Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles?
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, former Chairman of MySpace, said Wednesday that it has launched a new service which automatically pulls up and links to related content on web pages. According to Demand Media, the new, self-serve widget reads content on a page and adds links to related articles and videos. The new service, Pluck On Demand, comes as a result of Demand Media's acquisition of Pluck in March of this year. Pluck was a developer of social media software for web publishers.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Santa Monica-based entertainment studio Lionsgate reported this afternoon that it has linked with Massify, an online community for the film industry, to help develop feature film projects for the studio. Tags: lionsgate studio hollywood entertainment content massif According to Lionsgate, it will tap's Massify's online network for sourcing a user-generated, male driven comedy short, including using the site to find a script, director, cast, and crew. Financial details of the effort--which the firms are billing the Lionsgate Incubator Project--were not disclosed.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
“Digital Content Distribution’s Brave New World: Trends & Issues” was our topic last Thursday night at the Doubletree Hotel in Santa Monica.
The The first in what we hope is a series of digital media-related events for the Technology Council, this program focused on trends and opportunities in digital content distribution.
Turn-out Turn-out was stronger than expected for this
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
“Digital Content Distribution’s Brave New World: Trends & Issues” was our topic last Thursday night at the Doubletree Hotel in Santa Monica.
The The first in what we hope is a series of digital media-related events for the Technology Council, this program focused on trends and opportunities in digital content distribution.
Turn-out Tags: Events Internet Media/Entertainment Turn-out was stronger than expected for this [...]
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Santa Monica-based Outcast , an operator of at-the-pump digital displays, said this morning that it has inked new content partnerships with CBS, CNET, and HGTV. Financial details of the content relationships were not disclosed. Outcast runs a network of digital displays at gas stations, which feature both content and advertising. The firm says it now has 12,600 of its screens deployed. READ MORE>>
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