|
|
138 Articles match "Santa Monica","Sites"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
|
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Santa Monica-based LIVESTRONG.COM , the online health and fitness site run by Demand Media, has updated the firm's MyPlate lifestyle management tool, the company announced this morning. The firm said the new tool also now integrates with LIVESTRONG Loops, the site's tool for finding local walking and running routes. LIVESTRONG said that it has added new custom receipe builders, an expanded food and activity database, and other features to the tool, which allows users to track what they are eating and how often they are exercising. READ MORE>>
...Tags:
|
|
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Check out their site for job search tips, 'What is an unconference', and audio interviews. Summary Follow these links to find the updates, and follow further for the full listings. 3 New and 5 Updates in SoCal Networking Event Organizations . PSM) Sites: pinkslipmixers.com , www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23045261698 Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
|
|
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site?
Jason That works like Docstoc, which is now probably the fastest growing web site for small businesses. We thought we'd get the background on the new effort directly from Jason Nazar , CEO and founder of Docstoc, to learn more about the new service. Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we
|
|
The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
|
•
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Official Site
was in santa monica today and heard about the plane crash at the airport. Tags: santa monica Martin Schaedel Peopl
Martin Schaedel’s final tweet.
I didn’t know Martin, but from what I’m reading today, his final status update will always echo how he spent his time here. As
|
|
•
Thursday, September 3, 2009
The product development team behind Yahoo's news site, Yahoo News , has reportedly been moved to Taiwan , AllThingsD reported this morning. Yahoo's editorial team remains in Santa Monica. The move is the second one for product development at Yahoo News, which was previously located at Yahoo's media operations in Santa Monica. Yahoo had pulled development of the service out of its LA location in February, moving the UI and engineering design back to Sunnyvale.
...Tags: Tags: yahoo news taiwan overseas media santa monic
|
|
|
|
•
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
The appropriately named GumGum does just that, makes your site sticky.
Tags: News funding gumgum mike jones santa monic Image licensing startup GumGum has secured an additional 2.6 Million in funding led by GRP Partners. The service, which offers high quality images for publishers, stands to reinvent the image license model with an innovative offering.
|
|
•
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Santa Monica-based Biddees , a new startup founded by a number of veterans from Shoes.com, has launched a new web site today focused on decreasing reverse auctions of gift cards. The site allows consumers to buy gifts cards from such companies as Amazon.com, Walmart, and other brand name retailers using a reverse auction, combined with donations to nonprofits. The The use of a bid credit decreases the price of those gift cards by 50 cents, and gives the user an option to then buy the card--or wait until that card has received other bids and decreases in price. A
|
|
•
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Santa Monica-based ExpenseBay , the online, expense report automation startup founded by Eric Sicola, is announcing today that it has integrated with web site TripIt . Tags: saas software reports expense site travel tripit expenseba ExpenseBay said that its software-as-a-service product now allows users to import TripIt travel plans, and will automatically create expense reports based on trips and financial data that the service has downloaded from a user's credit card data and other expense information. ExpenseBay's software--targeted at business professionals
|
|
|
|
•
Monday, October 13, 2008
Santa Monica-based DECA, a venture-backed, digital entertainment studio, said this morning that it has become the exclusive business and production partners for teen brand SMOSH, a leading provider of humorous videos on YouTube. DECA said that SMOSH has over 555,000 subscribers on YouTube, in addition to operating its own web site. According to DECA, it will provide financing, ad sales, marketing, distribution, and provide other business operations for SMOSH, which was created by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. DECA is venture backed by Mayfield, General Catalyst, and Atomico.
|
|
•
Friday, November 13, 2009
When my friend Wil Schroter builds web sites, he's more concerned with attracting revenue than eyeballs. When we get together in person, I like talking to him about how he builds revenue-generating sites like goBIGnetwork.com , because he's so methodical about it.
That way, if a customer abandons the order after the first page, he knows he hasn't promoted his site's features well enough. For example, his order process is always split into two parts: the first page asks potential customers for their names, email addresses, etc, and the second page tells them the price and asks for the order.
|
|
•
Friday, October 24, 2008
Santa Monica-based Intent.com said Thursday that it has launched a new web site focused on wellness and social networking. The site--which was co-founded by Deepak Chopra's daughter, Mallika Chopra--said it is looking to create a community of like-minded members, blogs from wellness experts, and other curated online content. The new site fatures blog posting from Deepak Chopra, Olivia Newton John, Ed Begley Jr., Fran Drescher, and many other celebrities; the site will also feature articles from source such as Treehugger, DailyOm, Causecast, Good Magazine, and others.
|
|
|
|
•
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Santa Monica-based Mahalo , the high profile "human-powered search engine" run by Jason Calacanis, rolled out a new, revamped site late Tuesday evening, offering to split advertising revenues with users who help to create pages on the site. Mahalo will allow users to claim and build pages for any topic on the site, supplementing the firm's use of employees and contractors to create pages. Mahalo has received funding from Sequoia Capital, Elon Musk, and News Corp., among others.
|
|
•
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Santa Monica-based DECA has raised $10M in a new round of funding worth $10M, according to a regulatory filing. Among the firm's projects are the videos for popular blog site BoingBoing; BNET's Dog and Pony show; and Project Lore, a video games-focused site featuring Alex Albrecht, host of Diggnation. The funding was led by new investor Rustic Canyon Partners, with participation from Series A investors Atomico, General Catalyst Partners, and Mayfield Fund. The firm's CEO, Michael Wayne, confirmed the funding with socalTECH, but said that the company would not be making
|
|
