Top officers of some of the leading social media websites and tools (including Facebook, MySpace and Yammer) will be on the Panel, and there will be panelists from the worlds of media sharing platforms (Pringo), online advertising (Stun Media) and law (Greenberg Glusker), the latter to highlight risks relating to such issues as corporate blogging and privacy. Speakers: * Jason Oberfest, Senior Vice President, Business Development of MySpace * Paul Ollinger, West Coast Vice President of Sales of Facebook * Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW, YouTube * Majid Abai, CEO

Hear the stories of the well known successes like Salesforce.com and MySpace , and some not so well known; it's all part of the ongoing legacy of USC's Entrepreneurship program. My guest is Tom O'Malia, Director of the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Currently rated #1 in the nation by Entrepreneur magazine , Tom has reason to brag. Get Tom's book, The Entrepreneurial Journey , through Brandywine Publishing.

Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, will broadcast "This Week in Start-Ups" live from the event and his guests will be community experts Peter Hirshberg, chairman of The Conversation Group and Michael Jones, COO of MySpace. Results of the first-ever Managing Online Communities survey will be presented by Karen North, Director, USC Annenberg Program on Online Communities. Wednesday, September 23, 2009 -- Managing Online Communities. Digital Family Summit.

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.  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

Here’s in Southern California, that first-rate sophisticated money includes both a good pool of venture investors (not to mention lots of transitory money from Sand Hill Road); lots of technology universities (Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Harvey Mudd, etc. and lots of “template successes” over the years (Qualcomm, Broadcom, MySpace, Overture, LowermyBills, Pricegrabber, JAMDAT, Proflowers, and literally hundreds of other Howard Anderson, a venture capitalist at Battery Ventures and a professor at MIT, has an interesting post on GigaOM about 5 Reasons To Move Your Startup Out of Silicon Valley .

LA’s Best MySpace Music Page LA’s Best Comment Thread of the Year “Nike Confuses USC With that School Near Diddy Riese,” Lost Angeles Blog LAWeekly announced the winners of their first annual web awards today. We want to send out a big congratulations to those of you who were picked, and send a special thanks out to all of our readers.

LA’s Best MySpace Music Page LA’s Best Comment Thread of the Year “Nike Confuses USC With that School Near Diddy Riese,” Lost Angeles Blog LAWeekly announced the winners of their first annual web awards today. We want to send out a big congratulations to those of you who were picked, and send a special thanks out to all of our readers.

8221; or “Can MySpace make a comeback So people will still ask, “USC or UCLA?” SodaHead said last night that the firm is switching from its Q&A focus to become a “social newspaper” site. I asked Jason Feffer , the firm’s CEO, three quick questions about the switch, and thought I’d share it here:

What we've done, is we've taken technology originally developed at USC, a CIA funded project, and gained global commercial rights for the non-security sector. They want a means of representing themselves that is animated, and changeable, and actively communicates in places like MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks. The other thing you can do with BigStage, is you can save your avatar--or what we call and @ctor, Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market.