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9 Articles match "Product","Userplane"
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Santa Monica-based Userplane , which develops web widgets used by other online community sites, including chat and other collaboration applications, told its users today in an email that the firm's future "remains bright." The firm--which hasn't sent a monthly newsletter in awhile--sent out an email Thursday afternoon saying that the firm is "still comprised of forward-thinking, talented individuals who work hard to keep Userplane in demand and relevant in our industry." The newsletter blast came after high visibility coverage in the last couple of months from TechCrunch and VentureBeat, speculating that the firm had been "mothballed" by AOL.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Mike Jones told us how he built a chat application for a consulting client and then turned it into userplane, a company that he sold to AOL.
Chance Barnett , said before he even builds a product, he buys some cheap ads on Google to see if there’s a market for it.
An aspiring entrepreneur on Hacker News recently asked, “I want to start a startup, but have no ideas. What should I do?”
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Michael bootstrapped userplane and sold it to AOL, then went on to found Tsavo . The other thing that I really want to push a lot of people on, that I think gets lost in the fray sometimes, is making sure that you’re really driving towards the core single value of your product. think part of that comes from a discovery process of launching products and iterating and changing. ( Can’t see video? Try this. )
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Santa Monica-based Userplane , which develops web widgets used by other online community sites, including chat and other collaboration applications, told its users today in an email that the firm's future "remains bright." The firm--which hasn't sent a monthly newsletter in awhile--sent out an email Thursday afternoon saying that the firm is "still comprised of forward-thinking, talented individuals who work hard to keep Userplane in demand and relevant in our industry." The newsletter blast came after high visibility coverage in the last couple of months from TechCrunch and VentureBeat, speculating that the firm had been "mothballed" by AOL.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Mike Jones told us how he built a chat application for a consulting client and then turned it into userplane, a company that he sold to AOL.
Chance Barnett , said before he even builds a product, he buys some cheap ads on Google to see if there’s a market for it.
An aspiring entrepreneur on Hacker News recently asked, “I want to start a startup, but have no ideas. What should I do?”
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Monday, April 27, 2009
News Corporation said a few minutes ago that it has added two new executives at MySpace , and is tapping Tsavo Media's Michael Jones as Chief Operating Officer and Sling Media's Jason Hirschhorn as Chief Product Officer. Jones is best known in Southern California's technology community for his success at Userplane, which he founded and sold to AOL. Both are in Los Angeles. He was most recently CEO of Tsavo Media, which is developing online publishing and advertising technology along with related online content.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
When you ran userplane , how did you make the transition from consulting to building your own product?
We were able to strike up a licensing agreement with them, where they agreed to license the product. What if you can’t get funding for your startup?
Before launching Tsavo , his current startup, Mike Jones funded a startup through consulting work.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Michael Jones and Jason Hirschhorn have just been appointed COO and Chief Product Officer, respectively, over at MySpace. Most of the folks in Los Angeles will know Michael well, from his days bootstrapping Userplane (sold to AOL), as well as his recent efforts with both Tsavo , as well as his efforts (along with Peter Pham and others) to get the technology elite networking here. Jason was most recently at Sling Media , and prior to that was Chief Digital Officer at MTV Networks .
btw, I checked in with Mike Jones about what’s going to happen over at Tsavo Media;
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Michael bootstrapped userplane and sold it to AOL, then went on to found Tsavo . The other thing that I really want to push a lot of people on, that I think gets lost in the fray sometimes, is making sure that you’re really driving towards the core single value of your product. think part of that comes from a discovery process of launching products and iterating and changing. ( Can’t see video? Try this. )
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
Jerome Chang: We have quite a variety of residents here, ranging from a lawyer, to real estate investors, to technology startups, to people in the entertainment industry, such as production firms, script writers, and filmmakers.
What Jerome Chang: An example: we have a four person production firm, which moved into our space in July, but found that had to increase to six people soon after. One of the recent trends in the technology industry here in Los Angeles is the use of "coworking" spaces--flexible workspaces where companies can rent open office space. BLANKSPACES (www.blankspaces.com)
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.
What Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.
What Ian Swanson: We have 1500 publishers using our products. As companies figure out a way to monetize social media, one of the areas which has been lacking is a way to measure the impact and effectiveness of social media advertising. To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops
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