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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He had spent many years at Yahoo! during the better days and we had lots of discussions / debates about Yahoo!’s The video was so high level and was explaining how advertising was all becoming measurable (duh) but we had no sense what his company’s role in this process was. ’s strategy and missteps.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

Geocities , the original Southern California internet startup--which was founded all the way back in 1994 in Los Angeles--will finally disappear completely from the Internet, as Yahoo said today that it will shut down its Japanese Geocities site. Geocities was one of the first Internet IPOs out of Los Angeles, and sold to Yahoo for $4.5

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. were doing.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Among one of the fastest growing industries--despite what has been a stagnant economy--is Internet advertising, which has continued to grow strongly over the past two years. For today's interview, we spoke with Tim Cadogan , CEO of OpenX, to hear more about the firm's growth on the strength of Internet advertising, and what the firm is up to.

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DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 billion in annual subscription revenues not including advertising or eCommerce). Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! But let’s be honest – they’re mostly the same old shit as Web 1.0,

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MAY 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based online advertising firm Rubicon Project is significantly boosting its executive ranks today, saying that it has named a new CTO, General Counsel, and SVP of Product Management to the firm.

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. I've always felt that financial vertical is the one vertical--with Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Reuters, and First Data--where Twitter should be involved in. So, they let me start StockTwits.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal has launched a new, online marketplace for local advertising, saying Monday that it has created a new "ReachLocal Xchange" platform which will allow websites to tap into local advertisers. Tags: reachlocal online advertising marketplace. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

In products designed to sell directly on the web the process is no different. If you spent time at a site you might not be aware but they’ve possibly dropped a cookie on your computer and use pixel tracking to follow you around the web. With this email address you can continue to market to me even if I don’t buy today.

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OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has hired a new executive to head up the firm's advertising sales, the firm disclosed Tuesday. Demand Media has appointed George Stewart as the company's Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales, heading up sales for all of the company's sales channels. READ MORE>>

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

Woodland Hills-based FatTail, a developer of online advertising management software, announced this morning that it has raised $3M in a Serie A financing round led by Velocity Interactive Group. According to FatTail, Ted Meisel, former CEO of Overture and president of Yahoo! Miller and former Fox Interactive Media's Ross Levinsohn.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. You have huge hiring volume coming from the new growth firms (Twitter, Zynga, Facebook) and huge retention battles & hiring from Google, Apple, Cisco, Yahoo!,

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Venice-based FlipGloss Media announced this morning that it has launched a web site targeted at the fashion, design, travel, and lifestyle photography markets. The advertising-driven site said it was founded by Yahoo! Music veterans Kerry Trainor, Mike Randall, Robyn VanTol and Christopher Shattuck. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 11, 2011

To say he has had an impact on the web would be an understatement. I thing I’ve learned over the years is that technology purists hate advertising even when it is that revenue stream that truthfully drives much of our industry. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo!

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AUGUST 3, 2012

We've created a channel and web page for every one of our partner schools and school districts, and we distribute the content there. We've also got the partnership with Google/YouTube, the partnership with Yahoo Rivals, and we also partner with USA Today and Gannett on their digital properties.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Neal Weiss, Yahoo! Originals is Yahoo!’s At Agility Studios, closed Puma deal for integration into director Jon Chu’s LXD dance web series, now at Paramount Digital. What advertisers brands are looking for: targeting demos, branding, stats. original series (EMHE Life With Confidence, Stars Go Green, etc.),

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Competitors: Gowalla.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Scour is an offshoot of a PPC advertising firm, ABCSearch, which was also founded by Dan. Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? He is known for being able to monetize the social web. What are the risks and rewards?

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JANUARY 15, 2009

Our startup interview this morning is with Josh Stomel , founder of ResumeBucket (www.resumebucket.com), a new web site that is focused on helping people share their resumes with the world. Josh Stomel: How we make money right now is advertising revenue. What's the idea behind the site?

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APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. billion to Yahoo! I think the best solution for the social networking era is “in-stream&# advertising. It offers Internet radio targeted advertising and is growing really well. Because GoTo.com was his idea.

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JUNE 16, 2009

It enables them to allow advertisers to run campaigns through affiliates, where you can drive calls and not just clicks. The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. There is 300 billion or so spent on advertising in the U.S.,

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MAY 4, 2010

Palm (acquired by HP ) – In our interview we talked about how transformational mobile computing is and why it’s different than web computing (e.g. Klout measures influence on topics across the social web to find the people the world listens to; assigns a Klout score to Twitter members. Segment Two: “Deal of the Week”.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

We pull your Yahoo, business accounts, Gmail, and other accounts and pull them into Orgoo. Everything we have built is web-based, and there isn't anything to download--you can access it from a computer anywhere. There's a lot of big guys in this business --Google, Yahoo, etc.--how They all now come with cameras.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. Alex Benzer: I was a computer kid in high school, though I thought I'd go into advertising. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. We have some great mentors now. How did you and Charlotte get into software?

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MARCH 27, 2015

We spoke with founder and CEO Tyler Francois to hear about his vision for making anyone an Internet radio DJ, and how the team--made up of former Yahoo! Tyler Francois: We have a fairly lean team right now, eight full time developers, three of whom previously worked for other, streaming music services, including Yahoo! What is urRadio?

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

This morning, Woodland Hills-based FatTail (www.fattail.com) announced a venture round from Velocity Interactive Group for its software for managing online advertising. FatTail is solving the problem of buying and selling advertising, one I've seen as a challenge as long as I've been in the media business, which is twenty two years.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 17, 2012

Marissa Mayer has started work at Yahoo! Her appointment is expected to spice things up at Yahoo, once a top internet and media firm. She is expected to champion for new products and advance its web technology. This might revive Yahoo’s leading properties like Yahoo! Mail ,Yahoo! Search, Yahoo!

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

used in a very wide range of both web and mobile services, from Foursquare, to Yelp, to LivingSocial. SendGrid has seen massive growth and adoption, as thousands of web developers have discovered that the company--which has major. The firm's software helps advertisers target people looking for specific brands and details of a products.

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APRIL 28, 2010

We've obviously toyed with advertising and sponsorship as well. Obviously, the other important thing is that now that we have a web-based client, a Gmail application, it will be easier to install than Outlook, if only conceptually. When you actually send a Bccthis, there's a certain amount of real estate we get with that sticky note.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Companies like Flingo, Shazam Yahoo, Coincident.TV, Google and Nielsen are all developing their own coding protocals for ACR. Hyper contextualized advertising and granular measurements (like AdSense is to the web) will be established for TV. TVSync is not alone in developing ACR. The race to establish the standard is on.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. Managing Director of FirstMark Capital, a $2 billion VC fund focusing on investments in the emerging media & advertising and data & analytics sectors. He is also a Venture Partner at True Ventures.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

Internet advertising is good. the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. It was an Internet search engine and directory "dot-com" (competitor to Yahoo!, How will we.

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Startup 3.0:

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