Follow @StartupArmy for articles on technology, startups, social media and more! Jeff Shariat is SVP of Operations for Startup Army, a Venice, CA based startup accelerator.  I’ve written about Google’s Data Liberation Front before … They are the nice people dedicated to making sure its as easy to get your data out of the cloud as it is to get it in . Today they announced a new feature worth acknowledging. 

Dealmaker Media – My first DealMaker Media event was Startonomics (a fantastic event). Digital Family Reunion – DFR is a descendant of the VIC (Venice Interactive Community), LA’s first Internet networking group. Social Media Club, LA – SMC events have a nice mix of people ranging from entrepreneurs and marketers to developers and community managers. My friend Mark Long recently asked me about networking in Los Angeles. Mark is a CTO, see, and his company, PortBlue , was recently acquired (congrats, Mark!).

One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. Together these social signals indicate content that is likely of higher quality (or at least of higher interest). So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community . This is the beginning

So, Serena, our EVP of Social Media who will be out of town and cannot attend the event on Monday, said that she heard through her socalTECH  subscription, that they were giving away a few tickets.  Needless to say, I ironed my suit (no, not really – anyone who knows me will get this) and have placed my triple latte pre-order at Groundworks in Venice for 8am that morning.  Last week my team was reviewing our upcoming event calendar and the subject of PerfectBusiness.com’s “ Perfect Pitch 2009 ” event came up.  This event is perfect for us – thousands

Panelists: Wil Schroter, Founder and CEO – Go BIG Media and GotCast.com, Marc Diana, Founder and CEO -LeadPoint, Inc., Thursday, January 14th, 2009 Social Media Club “Dating & Relationships: The Game Has Changed” – mix, mingle and discuss how Social Media has changed the rules of dating. Exactly one month before Valentine’s Day, come hear all about how social media can help you with the hook ups. Check out what’s happening in Los Angeles tech this week. Be sure to add us on Plancast.com , we will be utilizing

Panelists: Wil Schroter, Founder and CEO – Go BIG Media and GotCast.com, Marc Diana, Founder and CEO -LeadPoint, Inc., Thursday, January 14th, 2009 Social Media Club “Dating & Relationships: The Game Has Changed” – mix, mingle and discuss how Social Media has changed the rules of dating. Exactly one month before Valentine’s Day, come hear all about how social media can help you with the hook ups. Check out what’s happening in Los Angeles tech this week. Be sure to add us on Plancast.com , we will be utilizing

panel of judges tore apart his site, offering advice on SEO, PR and social media. My friend, and former team member, Stephen Johnson and I would go surfing out in Venice last summer for our breaks from work. Viralogy is a social media rank that ranks your online influence and compares it against your peers. I first met Jun Loayza at one of Andrew Warner’s Mixergy events. The format was American Idol style, I was playing Simon, Jun the hopeful entrepreneur.

Follow @StartupArmy for articles on technology, startups, social media and more! Jeff Shariat is SVP of Operations for Startup Army, a Venice, CA based startup accelerator.  Late last week Google made a move that seems to fly in the face of the open source nature of the AndroidOS.  It’s almost like they knew I’d been writing about open source phones.

Monday, March 8, 2010 Digiday: Mobile – Is Mobile The Next Critical Mass Medium? – Discover the what the future holds for you and this game changing media platform at digiday:MOBILE in Los Angeles. Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Digiday: Social – The New Media Reality: Everything is Social. Are You? – During this high-level Most of Los Angeles tech is completly focused on the ultimate event that starts this Thursday, South by Southwest Interactive. But before you get completly in the Austin mindset you might want to spare a second to check

Hackers have known this for a long long time, but as social networking comes to the forefront of our society and crowdsourcing a solution becomes commonplace, you’ll hear more and more about Open Source this and Homebrew that…and that’s a good thing for everyone. Follow @StartupArmy for articles on technology, startups, social media and more! I’ve had a palm device of some sort since 10th grade when I got the PalmPilot Personal.  After 13 years and about 8 devices (that I had), Palm FINALLY developed a brand new, ground up operating