Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. as part of its Google Focused Research Awards, to help fund research in ares of study that are of key interest to the company. Google said that the firm is awarding a total of $5.7M Among the 12 projects, which include 31 professors at 10 universities, are one on the use of mobile phones as data collection devices for public health an environmental

Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. Santa Barbara born companies such as DoubleClick, ValueClick, Commission Junction and FastClick are all leaders in the space (the last three are all now owned by ValueClick who’s founder is a major investor in Make It Work). This brilliant business model has grown fast and has helped Today I met with Jason Spievak, CEO of Ring Revenue.  He’s a great guy and taught me a bunch of new things about affiliate marketing and his

Yesterday, I met with @LisaBraithwaite, a local Santa Barbaran. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. Jeff was tweeting about needing help organizing and promoting the upcoming #140conf LA Meetup . I’ve been engaged with social networking for some time now, starting with Myspace and Facebook and just recently (within the last 30 days), Twitter. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time!

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the in-home computer and electronics help firm headed by Eric David Greenspan, reports that the firm is seeing its business grow, and has been hiring additional technicians at the company. Make It Work offers in-home computer and electronics help and repair services. Tags: makeitwork computer Greenspan said that the privately company is expecting profitable, topline growth this quarter, and saw another EBITDA positive month in July, plus an increase in its bank balance for the first time this year. The firm attributed a portion

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the home computer installation, repair, and assistance firm run by Eric David Greenspan, is expanding into the San Francisco Bay Area with a new radio show. Make It Work's shows feature Jeremy Anticouni, the firm's CTO, and include technology news, discussion of technology trends, plus answering help questions from computer users. Tags: The firm is launching a new show on KSFO 560 San Francisco (Citadel/ABC Radio), running on Saturdays at 3pm, with the first show tomorrow. The company--which already broadcasts "Tech News, powered by Make

Today, Lisa came to Mixergy to teach you how affiliate programs can help grow your company. More coverage: We talked about affiliate marketing on Mixergy with Jeremy “Shoemoney” Shoemaker , who taught some of his tricks, and with Josh Mullineaux , who created a theme to help generate affiliate revenue. Lisa’s example: There’s a company called Bargain Networks here in the Santa Barbara area. Back when I ran Bradford & Reed , Commission Junction, a leading affiliate network, put me on their homepage and talked me up as the guy they paid $1 million in annual commissions.

Today, Lisa came to Mixergy to teach you how affiliate programs can help grow your company. More coverage: We talked about affiliate marketing on Mixergy with Jeremy “Shoemoney” Shoemaker , who taught some of his tricks, and with Josh Mullineaux , who created a theme to help generate affiliate revenue. Lisa’s example: There’s a company called Bargain Networks here in the Santa Barbara area. Back when I ran Bradford & Reed , Commission Junction, a leading affiliate network, put me on their homepage and talked me up as the guy they paid $1 million in annual commissions.

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We have regular monthly meetings in Westlake Village, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, & Newport Beach. I'm hoping that Baron and Kurt come up with one that's in Santa Monica / West LA. I've heard great things about their events. What's keeping you up at night? Closing our our round and dealing with all the inbound requests. You are a really great networker and help put on great networking events, what do you think about the concept of visible networking? Kurt Daradics ( Facebook , @KurtyD , FriendFeed , MySpace , LinkedIn , Delicious ) (pronounced dare-a-dix) is a great guy to know.

Today, Lisa came to Mixergy to teach you how affiliate programs can help grow your company. More coverage: We talked about affiliate marketing on Mixergy with Jeremy “Shoemoney” Shoemaker , who taught some of his tricks, and with Josh Mullineaux , who created a theme to help generate affiliate revenue. Lisa’s example: There’s a company called Bargain Networks here in the Santa Barbara area. Back when I ran Bradford & Reed , Commission Junction, a leading affiliate network, put me on their homepage and talked me up as the guy they paid $1 million in annual commissions.