Hulu's April Fool Joke: 1996 Web Design
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APRIL 1, 2011
Visitors to Los Angeles-based video streaming service Hulu Friday were greeted with a surprise "redesign" of the web site, as part of a Hulu April Fool's gag.
Nimble Links Contact Records, Web Pages
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FEBRUARY 7, 2013
Nimble , the developer of web-based, contact management software, said Thursday that it has enhanced its software to allow users to link any web page to contact records in the product. The firm has been looking to bring contact management into the web-based, social age with its software. READ MORE>>.
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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites
InfoChachkie
DECEMBER 10, 2012
I reached out to Michael after their surprising day at the top of Hacker News during early September. The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. According to Michael, the Hacker News exposure was completely unplanned.
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Tealium Wins News International
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JUNE 13, 2012
San Diego-based Tealium , the developer of enterprise tag management software, announced today that it has been selected by News International , the UK publishing division of News Corporation for its online media network. The firm raised a $1.1M Series A in January from angels. READ MORE>>.
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Yahoo Links With Producer Of The Office For Web Series
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APRIL 12, 2010
Online web portal Yahoo has inked a deal with Reveille , producer of The Office, Ugly Betty, The Biggest Loser, and other shows, for a new online series, the firms said today. According to Yahoo, the new original web series, Who Knew? The new web series is being sponsored by Toyota Motor Sales USA.
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Curating The Web Using PublishThis, with Matt Kumin
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NOVEMBER 15, 2012
If you're a web publisher, or even a brand developing your own outreach to customers through a newsletter or microsite, how do you efficiently gather and curate all of the news and information out there? It's all about what is happening on the realtime web. Is this a subscription or do these publishers buy software?
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Frameworks Round 6
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JULY 2, 2013
July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. We are hiring.
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521 Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Now when we run a promotion with our new partner and get a thousand users coming in at one time, it grinds to a halt.”. Web application performance is a broad discipline.
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Frameworks Round 3
TechEmpower
APRIL 22, 2013
We''ve previously posted two rounds of results of benchmarking many web application platforms and frameworks. A reader has posted this blog entry to Hacker News, and we invite you to comment there. Thanks also to everyone who has e-mailed us and participated in the Hacker News conversations.'
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TweetUp Adds Topix
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2010
Pasadena-based TweetUp , the Twitter advertising play of Idealab's Bill Gross, said today that it has added news site Topix to its network. TweetUp allows Twitter users to bid on keywords to bring their tweets to the top when users search for information on different web sites. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Agent Ace Powers Service For U.S. News & World Report
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AUGUST 21, 2014
News & World Report. The two companies said that Agent Ace is powering a new, consumer web portal, Best Agents , to help connect readers with real estate agents. marketplace matching agent realestate content publishing publisher report world news' Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.
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Rubicon Project Hails Growth, New Customers
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APRIL 30, 2013
The startup says it added more than 200 new publishers and 100 new buyer channels for the six months ended March 31, 2013, and that its customers now include more than 500 of the world''s premium publishers, including eBay UK, Time, ABC News, the Wall Street Journal, Tribune Company, Virgin Media, People, Universal and many others.
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Readers: Support Our News Coverage, Become A Member Today!
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JULY 5, 2016
Dear readers: do you find our news coverage on Southern California's high tech companies, startups, and technology developments useful? Our coverage is supported by our members and sponsors -- not by web or mobile advertising -- and we need you to show your support by becoming an ongoing member. If so, we need YOUR support.
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GotCast Launches Effort For Streamy Award, HollyScoop
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MARCH 3, 2010
Los Angeles-based GotCast.com , the online casting site run by Alec Shankman, said today that it has launched two talent searches for on-camera roles, for The Streamy Award, and HollyScoop, a syndicated TV show and site focused on celebrites, music, and fashion news. READ MORE>>.
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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 20, 2010
First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator.
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Frameworks Round 1
TechEmpower
APRIL 30, 2013
You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Web servers.
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Stroome Scores $200K From Journalism Contest
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JUNE 22, 2010
Los Angeles-based Stroome , which is developing an online community for collaborative video editing, announced today that it has just won $200,000 from the 2010 Knight News Challenge. The Knight News Challenge is a contest which helps to fund digital news experiments and technology.
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171 Framework Benchmarks
TechEmpower
MARCH 28, 2013
Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. This machine is responsible for hosting the web application exclusively. Web servers. We have included our in-house Java web framework, Gemini, in our tests. Motivation. Mongoose 3.5.5. PHP 5.3.10.
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PublishThis Powers Cox Media Site
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APRIL 22, 2013
PublishThis said it is behind the new Rare.us site, which is focused on politics, news, and lifestyle content for the center-right. PublishThis develops technology used to curate and distribute content, and help manage publishing of content for web publishers. Financial details of the win were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.
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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome
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JUNE 30, 2010
Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.
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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses
Tech.Co
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
A good alternative to BigCommerce with better web design. The post Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses appeared first on Tech.co. Runs Shopify close with great sales features and has a Free Trial , but a small knowledge base and weaker website design let it down. Can be confusing to use, though.
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PublishThis Enhances Content Curation Tool
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MARCH 13, 2013
According to the firm, the company's technology is now analyzing over 100 million data elements and 300,000 sources per month to help its clients organize the best and most useful content from around the web.
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171 HitFix Raises $1.6M
socalTECH
JUNE 28, 2010
Los Angeles-based HitFix , an online web site focused on entertainment news and information, has raised $1.6M in a new funding round, according to investor the Tech Coast Angels. Hitfix focuses on news, interviews and commentary on all aspects of entertainment. in Hitfix, led by investor Yuri Pikover. READ MORE>>.
Myspace Rolls Out New Mobile Site, iPhone App
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NOVEMBER 30, 2010
The firm--which is currently being revamped by CEO Michael Jones into a new, entertainment focused portal--said the updated site creates the "best experience for Myspace mobile web users". The new mobile site works with iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Palm, and certain Nokia and BlackBerry devices. READ MORE>>.
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182 NetDNA Wins TheNextWeb.com
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JUNE 12, 2012
Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider NetDNA reports this morning that it has scored a customer win with news website The Next Web. Financial details of the win were not disclosed.
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164 BuzzFeed Partners With CNN, Sets Up Studio In Los Angeles
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MAY 29, 2013
Online viral news and media site BuzzFeed is further expanding its operations in the Los Angeles area, and has set up a "social studio" in Los Angeles to help "influencers, thinkers and celebrities" to create videos for the social web. buzzfeed entertainment content jobs news employment social video youtube' READ MORE>>.
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145 CitizenGlobal Lands Wiki Inventor As CTO
socalTECH
MARCH 24, 2011
Venice-based CitizenGlobal , a startup working on crowd-sourced video content, has landed the inventor of the web wiki as Chief Technology Officer. The news was first uncovered by The Oregonian , a Portland paper, which noticed Cunningham had departed AboutUs, a Portland wiki firm.
BUZZMEDIA Partners With Photo Sharing Site Plixi
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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. Financial details of the effort were not announced. READ MORE>>.
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Ze Frank Games Acquired By Buzzfeed
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
Ze Frank Games , the Los Angeles startup led by web video's Ze Frank , has been acquired by BuzzFeed , a social news publisher, the firm said Friday. According to BuzzFeed, Ze Frank has joined the company to build a team of video producers in Los Angeles, setting up a studio to create content native to the social web.
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145 Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits
socalTECH
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. Twitter is pretty unstoppable as it related to news and global reach, but StockTwits is that extra layer that deciphers the news for people who love stocks.
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Demand Media Launches New Content Channels
socalTECH
AUGUST 6, 2010
The new offering takes Demand's sometime controversial process of tailoring web content based on search and other interest of web users, and creating low-cost articles specifically to address that content. According to Demand, it is providing the service to both Hearst and USA Today.
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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future
Both Sides of the Table
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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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster
socalTECH
OCTOBER 29, 2012
From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. We saw that one third of Americans under 40 have started using satirical news sources as replacements for news from someone like Fox News or CNN.
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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA
socalTECH
DECEMBER 27, 2012
Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?
RPost Sues Adobe, EchoSign
socalTECH
JULY 19, 2011
News of the lawsuit follows the announcement by Adobe yesterday that it had acquired EchoSign, a Palo Alto developer of web-based, electronic signature software. RPost sued Santa Barbara-based RightSignature and fellow electronic signature firm DocuSign in June over the same patents. READ MORE>>.
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Rubicon Project Raises $18M, Buys Fox Audience Network
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has raised $18M in additional funding, and acquired the Fox Audience Network (FAN) from New Corporation. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M. Tags: rubicon project news audience network merger acquisition venture capital advertising. READ MORE>>.
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147 MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Venture backers : Mohr Davidow Ventures, Mission Ventures, Tech Coast Angels, Ron Conway.
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178 Divshot Sets Up Shop In Los Angeles
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
In the case of Divshot , a developer of user interface development tools for web apps, it was a chance to join Los Angeles accelerator Launchpad LA. Divshot develops software which provides a drag-and-drop interface to create web apps, which can then export HTML and CSS code for use by software developers.
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Earbits Launches On Android
socalTECH
APRIL 25, 2013
Good news for new music fans wishing they could get access to the Earbits music discovery service on their Android phone: the firm just released its Android app this morning, bringing its flavor of music discovery and streaming to the smartphone platform. The app--which required Android 2.2 READ MORE>>.
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170 Rubicon Serves Up A Trillion Display Ads
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
Rubicon Project's services are used by web publishers to pick the best ad networks to run on a specific page of their site, based on the return predicted from that ad network. Rubicon is venture backed by News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn.
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159 What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital
socalTECH
DECEMBER 30, 2010
What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I left a great firm, Redpoint Ventures (after 11 years), to start a new firm, Archer Venture Capital. Using the social web to fill excess capacity that exists in nearly every business was one of the best uses of the web that I've seen. Great things will emerge there.
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234 What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking
Both Sides of the Table
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.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.
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318 Starbucks Set To Launch Free Wi-Fi
socalTECH
JUNE 30, 2010
In what can only be good news for many a high tech professional, coffee chain Starbucks said today that it will turn on free Wi-Fi in its stores July 1st, at all of its U.S. Starbucks said that it will give Wi-Fi enabled laptops, tablets, and mobile phones with unlimited access to the Web. and Canadian company-owned stores.
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FamilyFinds Launches DailyFinds Email
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APRIL 30, 2012
The first email sent out to subscribers links users directly to news stories from around the web. It's unclear how the new service will link back to the FamilyFinds deals and coupons services. FamilyFinds looks to be playing with its model a bit, and also launched a Pinterest-like service called MyFinds in February.
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