113 Articles match "Media","MySpace"

The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene.  We LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business).  If A great team from MySpace has created Gravity.  Gil Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All
 
Monday, March 15, 2010
Confirmation will be required or your spot will be given up for our waiting list. MediaClub LA – Join LA’s Largest Business Networking Organization for Media Professionals and see you at our next event. Come Come mingle with top industry professionals in Media and Technology. Attendees work at companies such as CAA, Disney, Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 Digital LA Digital Drinks - ‘Tis our lucky day! We’ll be celebratin’ St.
 
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
But, we were able to into a huge event that we partnered with Lifetime and MySpace on, and we got 50,000 girls to try out in less than a week, with hundreds of thousands of people online as voters and fans, and we had millions of impressions surrounding the event. We also have one individual angel involved, Paige Craig, who we came in touch via Mike Jones, who is really excited about media properties out there and people from interesting backgrounds trying to basically do what we're doing. 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.
 

The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community

This includes MySpace, CitySearch, Ticketmaster, eHarmony, and thousands of lesser known technology companies. Tags: Social Media Marketin Southern California is a hotbed of technology companies that are leaders in their sector. A high-tech community like this also has many bloggers and Web-based news outlets that cover our companies,
Social Media Super Powers: Social Media Super Powers: MySpace Co-Founder Tom Anderson is probably the most well known social founder behind a site. His status at MySpace is so legendary it has just about made him a household name. MySpace : 269,000,000 Friends ( link ) It’s interesting (to me at least) the vast audiences that tech founders are able to assemble. Through their own products and others, they manage to build massive communities that in many cases, hang on their every word tweet.
If you want to grow your company’s audience by adding a social media app (on MySpace, Facebook and similar sites), listen to this interview first. interviewed Jason Kiesel because MySpace believed in him enough to hire his company to build IMe , an instant messenger app that lets users message their friends. By the time he was done, the app did so much that it was like a MySpace app that duplicated I Here’s some of what he taught me:
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. 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. 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.
Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity;
On MySpace, love eeks out a more modest 6 to 1 spread. I calcuated these ratios by using the results from these Google searches: site:{sitename.com} love site:{sitename.com} hate To decide if the ratios were higher or lower than the world at large, I compared them to the simple ratio of "love" and "hate" search results on google overall. Tweeters use active voice verbs far more often than Facebook or MySpace.) One of the first things you notice about twitter is what a positive, happy place it is. In fact, Tweeters are 51% more likely to show love than the world at large.
Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said Wednesday afternoon that the firm has launched a new offering which will allow users to link to the site while watching TV. According to MySpace, the new MySpace Widget For TV was co-developed by Intel and Yahoo, and will allow consumer electronics devices to interact with MySpace, directly through a TV. The launch came in conjunction Among features of the TV version of MySpace are updates on status from friends, ability to browse photos and profiles, and to publish status and respond to messages. Intel's
Fox Interactive Media has reportedly laid off a number of staffers, and is restructing its MySpace unit, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ reports that News Corp's Fox Interactive Media division laid off about 5 percent of its work force, or about 100 people. Details were sketchy, however, MySpace told a number of publications that it is actively hiring and expects to have more employees Tags: jobs layoff interactive myspace medi
Flektor, the online web slideshow and photo and video sharing site owned by Fox Interactive Media, appears to have completely disappeared as of this morning. The service's web site now goes directly to the MySpace home page. Flektor had been acquired by Fox Interactive Media in May of 2007. A source close to the firm said that the service was being completely shut down today, including the servers, videos, polls, and more.
Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , and Katalyst Media, the content production firm co-founded by Ashton Kutcher, said Thursday that MySpace will promote and syndicate the second season of Katalyst's "Blah Girls" title. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Blah Girls is an animated comedy based on popular culture and a trio of gossipping teens.