Macadaan is well known in the Los Angeles technology community for creating and running Twiistup, the popular Los Angeles technology networking and startup showcase event. Macadaan's departure closely follows the departure of Tsavo founder and CEO Michael Jones, who recently became COO of MySpace. Tags: tsavo mike macadaan twiistup executive conten Santa Monica-based Tsavo , the online media company which owns Manolith, Twirlit, Kidglue, and Nibbledish, has lost its Vice President of Product and Design, Mike Macadaan. According to Macadaan, this week is his last at Tsavo.

Yes we have the only ticket to the very-very-not-ganna-happen-beyond-sold out event Twiistup . Zannel connects to over 25 social networks and blogs including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and Flickr. Entries also will also be put into the Twiistup Channel on Thursday. * You might even call it the golden ticket! Want it?

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Twiistup 6 has come to an end.  Out is the “cocktail only” Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology calendar.  I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA.  We Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup. ExpenseBay Wins Showoff It proved to be a great transitional year. 

First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley.  I 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 Los Angeles.  People People either love it our hate it.  All

The folks at the upcoming Twiistup technology conference are continuing–in their own way–to try to bridge the entertainment and technology scene in Los Angeles, telling folks today that celebrity Brooke Burke (Dancing with the Stars/Wild On E!, Missing from their promo: Brooke’s partner at ModernMom.com, Lisa Rosenblatt, is the wife of Demand Media ’s Richard Rosenblatt–former chairman of MySpace, who is now hobnobbing with Lance Armstrong) etc.) will be one of the conference’s speakers.  (Missing

Last week, one of those never-ending topics of discussion came up at Twiistup on a panel about whether or not Southern California was a good place to put your startup. On one side, you had Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Mike Jones of MySpace who were saying “yes”, and on the other side, you had Jamie Montgomery of Montgomery and Co. , It was, at least for me, somewhat of a downer way and David Sacks of Geni/Yammer , who were saying “maybe/no”. The issue, highlighted by Sacks’ announcement that he was moving Yammer to Silicon Valley, was