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MAY 31, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the venture backed entertainment and digital media publishing firm behind such sites as Celebuzz, Sterogum, and Buzznet, has acquired electronic music blog site XLR8R , the firm said today. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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JANUARY 18, 2015

I used to love blogging. Blogging proved to be a great way to hone my ideas, have public conversations with people and as it turns out – build meaningful relationships through public dialog that spilled over into the real world. Somewhere along the way blogging changed. Fred Wilson said as much in his blog post today, too.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Los Angeles-based women's content site SheKnows , which is owned by Evolve Media Corp., said today that it has inked a deal with singer/songwriter Alanis Morissette , to include a video blog (vlog) from Morissette while on tour.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Hollywood-based BUZZMEDIA , the online publisher of entertainment focused blogs and web sites, said today that it has linked with photo sharing site Plixi , which until recently was known as TweetPhoto. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2011

San Diego-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has boosted an Internet web site publisher known for its humorous, captioned pictures of cats and use of Internet memes, Cheezburger. Cheezburger runs comedy sites I Can Has Cheezburger? Cheezburger runs comedy sites I Can Has Cheezburger?

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JULY 11, 2011

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands said Monday that it has acquired two web sites aimed at women, Weddingbee.com , and JustMommies.com from Pasadena-based eHarmony. Weddingbee is an online blog focused on the wedding industry, brides, and wedding planning, and was launched in 2006. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 22, 2013

With that breadth we decided to move the project''s results to a stand-alone site separate from this blog. A reader has posted this blog entry to Hacker News, and we invite you to comment there. Speaking of pull requests, we received tests for several additional frameworks since Round 2 and we have posted Round 3.

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APRIL 15, 2014

fieldsofgreen today usatoday publication content sports business online blog' Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

As the number of sites on the Internet floats around one billion, the challenge with every new startup is to be found and stand out. More important, if someone does find your site, the content better be enticing enough for them to come back. Blogging will improve your site search engine ranking.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. No matter how you end up on the front page of a major news site, getting there is just the first step.

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MAY 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the online entertainment blog and web publisher, is trumpeting its ranking today by comScore as one of the sites with the highest young adult reach. BUZZMEDIA said that 18-34 year olds are more likely to be found on its site than on Facebook and other sites.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Los Angeles-based Geni.com , the online family tree site, hinted this morning that it is about to release an iPhone application for the service. In a post on its blog, Geni said it was working on the "Next Stage of Genealogy" and showed a brief YouTube video with what appeared to be a Geni application running on an iPhone.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

Here’s the block that you see when you look at a blog enabled by Disqus (a third party commenting tool that can be embedded in blogs and other content): It allows you to authenticate yourself using Facebook Connect , Twitter Oauth (sign in with Twitter), OpenID , and Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication. Example What do I mean?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I had previously believed that the world of user-generated news sites were run on a open, crowd-sourced model. What I learned 18 months ago is that sites like Digg traditionally have not been “crowd sourced&# so much as “mafia sourced.&#. Then I started experiencing the magic of being “profiled&# on a few sites.

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MAY 9, 2012

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparisons site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Conner, has inked another distribution deal, this time with ad network and widget provider Lijit. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging. Tom Peters No single thing in the last 15 years professionally has been more important in my life than blogging. But from a value perspective, it really comes down to the numbers I showed for my eLearning Technology blog. This is that post.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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MAY 14, 2013

Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider NetDNA is powering a web performance optimization service for WordPress blog owners this morning. NetDNA said that W3 Total Cache , which develops a plug-in for the popular WordPress web publishing software, is using its MaxCDN services to help its customers with optimizing WordPress sites.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Gabe Rivera wrote a post on why TechMeme is now using its editors to curate titles that appear on its site. When I first started writing this blog several years ago I had less followers than you have right now. From this I learned the best times to post and how frequently to Tweet a blog post. Don’t try it at home.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online review site headed by J.R. Johnson, has launched a new, community feature which allows third party website and blogs to host and provide communities on their own sites. The firm said the new features will help those websites and blogs engage meaningfully with their visitors.

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JUNE 28, 2010

The campaign for Republican candidate for Governor, Meg Whitman , is taking fire from an Internet startup, Cheezburger Network , for unauthorized use of its web site in a political attack ad. In the ad, Whitman uses a faked screenshot of the FAIL Blog with the words FAIL over Jerry Brown.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Equally important, if someone does find your site, your content must stand out above all similar sites, to keep visitors engaged, close a sale, and get customers to return. I have found that publishing a regular blog can give you an edge in making all this happen. Your blog followers will be your best customers.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO. If you haven’t read my blog posts on why Tracy chose the right strategy it’s worth a read.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

I began publishing my blog in 2008. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project. In addition, my role as Partner at Rincon Venture Partners provided me with a business reason to invest additional time and effort into my humble blog. I was not disappointed.

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MARCH 1, 2011

Johnson, announced a move to allow other sites to host and show content via a new Lunch Network effort. Most importantly, it now gives all of their users and readers to not only read content on the site, but they can engage, interact, and create content. Today, Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), the startup headed by J.R.

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JUNE 3, 2010

We’re determined to keep this site good, because we use it ourselves.&#. I CERTAINLY opened myself up to attack by writing my original blog post about job hoppers with some incendiary language and tone. But the comments on my own blog were so much more balanced with people taking both sides of the debate.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based eHow , the question and answer site of Demand Media, is announcing today that it has launched a new women-focused channel called Shift. eHow said that the move will include such content as the "eHow 100" list of women who are making changes to their lives, selected by the site's editorial team and advisory board.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based BUZZMEDIA , the vast network of entertainment and music related blogs and websites, said that it is now number one in entertainment news, according to rankings from comScore. The company, which is run by Tyler Goldman, says it is now seeing more than 502 million monthly page views across its sites.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

We’ve recently launched a video series called T3:Today’s Tech Trends to further support our shows by adding a video component that can be shared directly from YouTube, our blog or embedded in the radio show website, blog or any other website/blog willing to carry the free content. This show can be found at [link].

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , the online marketing firm which helps small and medium sized business place Internet advertising, is shutting down its Bizzy local business recommendations site, according to a blog post from the site. Bizzy said the site and mobile apps will be shut down by mid-November.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , a provider of automotive information services, said today that it has rolled out a new site to its visitors, and is planning a release of an iPhone app--all part of an overhaul to update the service.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

Hulu , the online video streaming site headed by Jason Kilar, detailed its 2012 numbers today, saying that it will close the year with approximately $695M in revenues, a growth of over 65% since 2011. Kilar detailed the numbers and provided commentary in a blog post Monday morning. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

” Part of the beauty of blogging that in two sittings Fred was able to influence what was built over the next 12 months. I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. I loved the idea of “mobile first” but something always bothered me.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

According to Jason Calacanis , in a blog post, $75M to $150M. Calacanis said his firm--plus fellow instructional videos site Howcast--are the "only two brands.really attacking the free education space."

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APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. Instead of publishing into the ether where 98% of blogs must get less than 10 page views / month, in Tumblr you have followers as you would in a social network.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Los Angeles-based video streaming site Hulu is set to earn half a billion dollars in revenue this year, according to an update from CEO Jason Kilar posted last night on its company blog. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based WittleBee , the children's clothing site headed by Sean Percival, announced Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $2.5M Pervical--who was previously at MySpace--is also known for founding LA technology blog Lalawag. in a seed funding round. The round was led by Rincon Ventures, and also included. READ MORE>>.

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