socalTECH

MAY 5, 2011

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publisher which runs such sites as eHow.com, typeF.com, and LIVESTRONG.COM, said Thursday afternoon that it is launching a new effort focused on long-form web content. The firm said it is looking to engage feature writers to write long articles--"north of 850 words"--for its sites.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Applying that solution to our job matching site made perfect sense. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future. Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence TechEmpower Tips 297

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2008

The firm's site now allows users to email, write, or make calls via Skype and Jaxtr to their political representatives. According to You2Gov, it has created a free, customized database with contact information from all of the members of the United States Congress, including the House and the Senate.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As automotive web sites go, there are lots of review and information sites giving you information about new and used cars, magazines and information sites for auto enthusiasts, and discussion sites and groups for all kinds of cars. But, it turns out, there are not any automotive sites specifically geared towards women.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. So I often have no idea when I have a story on the site. Unfortunately HackerNews falls short on this goal.

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News Tips Blogging Writing 258

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? Noah, thanks for the interview.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Microsoft Office ended up beating its competitors because it was able to read and write to file formats other than its own. A program manager would traditionally be responsible for: Writing the detailed specification for how the software should work. Communicating with the developers who write code. Defensibility in Software.

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Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Tech.Co

JANUARY 26, 2024

To be considered for the contest, you will have to write a 100-500 word essay to enter on why you’d like to digitally detox and the positive impact it’ll have on your life – but that's all that's needed to apply. You’ll then be taken through to an online form. Should I Digitally Detox Anyway?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

We now have over 100 million users visiting our owned and operated sites, and we're also doing this for other people like USA Today. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective. They couldn't find enough people to write the content they needed, at the quality they need.

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Demand Media eHow Content 240

socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2012

Lavigne said that her fans and others can join the Rockstar Room to help raise money for children with serious illnesses and disabilities, including funding efforts by those kids to write, perform, and record their own unique song, and to help provide them with guitar picks and toys. READ MORE>>.

Writing 180

Writing Web Los Angeles Organization 180

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.&#. but I wanted to be sure I wasn’t writing just for my mom.

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News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site. It was discouraging.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I’ve wanted to write a blog post called “Mobile Second” for a long time to make this point more forcefully. I have talked with people in the industry who tell me that mobile movie sites convert ticket sales much higher than desktop websites. Try writing long reviews of a restaurant. They are limited in size.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Are you tired of booking that "luxury room" on your favorite vacation rental site, and finding it''s really a dump? What''s hovelstay.com, and how is it different than all the other vacation rental sites out there? Michael Womack: We are creating a site that has the adventurous and budget traveler in mind.

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Sites Startup Custom Customer 213

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Over the past 12 months, I've had roughly 284,000 people come visit that site and get exposed to things I write. But the web site visitors are accurate. Be interested in what they write. Plan out how you will interact with what they are writing. I keep my blogs separate from by company web site.

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Social Media Services Media Blogging 222

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Pictures on projects submitted to the site. According to Amazon.com, its new business-- Amazon Studios --will award a total of $2.7 million in awards through monthly and annual prizes to top scripts and test movies submitted to the company's new online business. In addition, the firm said it has a first-look deal with Warner Bros.

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USC Hollywood Writing Content 164

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2009

According to Demand Media, it now has more than 6,000 freelancers creating content for the company's network of sites via its Demand Studios arm. Demand uses freelancers to write how-to articles, produce videos, and other content to attract Internet traffic to its web sites. READ MORE>>.

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Demand Media Santa Monica Content 157

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

If you look at the articles on a site like CNN, and the 650 opinions you see after every article, your eyes just start to go crossed. The owners of a news site or blog can then install our plugins on their site, via all six lines of Javacript. When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names.

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Really!). 5.0mm in Series C.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

I got a call from a VC friend of mine who said, “we’re looking at this deal but can’t write the full check. The call from a fellow VC to “look harder” made me decide to request a site visit. I decided to write a $2+ million check along with my co-investor who offered $750k.

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Writing 356

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that comes to you site since much of it will be fleeting. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. So many companies suck at managing their booths. Don’t drink it. Get stories written.

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Startup Press Venture Capital Journal 310

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

Until sites begin to agree on common patterns for objects like People, Groups, Activities then there's going to be a big barrier to doing a lot of the stuff that we want to do. It will make life better if you are developing applications that you'd like to play in multiple places (write once, integrate/debug everywhere).

Writing 150

Writing Platform Sites Google 150

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Although it is difficult to directly track the impact of these sites, the expanded exposure from these sites has certainly augmented my overall traffic. Generated > 500 Tweets, from Technorati, BusinessInsider and my site. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. Article Title.

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Newsletter Blogging Santa Barbara Content 205

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

My understanding is that this is why HackerNews makes it hard to create links to articles posted there and I’ve been told both sites have algorithms that favor people upvoting from the “new story homepage” versus direct-click links to the story where there are invariably people who are intentionally trying to drive viral adoption.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What's the business model behind the site--everything is free? What's Scripped?

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2015

There were days where I could write about what I was thinking about Apple or Twitter or Facebook. Or I could just write about life. can only point to three examples in the last 10 years of writing where I know that what I specifically said made somebody resent me. So can I get a wish, To end the politics. ” B.o.B.

Blogging 150

Blogging Writing Startup Ideas 150

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Create social media posts with links to your site that drive search engine scores and increase search traffic. Here’s a quick nod to the folks at Colour Graphics for urging me to write this insight. Emphasize features and benefits not addressed by others if possible. And most of all, never give up! – Dave.

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Marketing Advertising Resource Social Media 266

socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

Co-founder Amanda MacNaughton describes the new tool as "bringing enterprise technology at an affordable price" for businesses, saying the tool makes it so businesses don't have to hire expensive developers to write their own tools.

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Tool Services Social Network Template 190

socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2011

In the rush toward the daily deals space, it seems like there is at least one, new, daily deals site created every day. It's an incredibly crowded industry, which not only includes giants like Groupon and LivingSocial, but countless smaller sites, newspapers, and others all looking for a piece of the action. What is Deal Current?

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Platform Training Software Review Advertising 263

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Back to regular writing this week so check back in. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh. However these unknown and unforeseen changes could lead to new problems for sites. 37:00-40:30).

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

When your site crashes and you get slammed by customers and in the press – you’re all in the sh*tter together. I’ll write about that in a couple of weeks. Writing this bl0g – This blog is a huge creative outlet for me. I get to choose what I write about.

Venture Capital 312

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Entrepreneur 312

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area. It sounds like an interesting story behind how it started--tell us how the site came about? That's what makes our site unique. So you've tapped bloggers for experts on the site?

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Guide Software Review Twiistup Technical Review 203

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

Johnson's latest effort is Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), a web site which takes the concepts behind VirtualTourist.com beyond travel, and into lots of other subjects. Back at that time, I had people ask my--why would I ever want to read what other people are writing, isn't that what professional authors and journalists are for?

Content 204

Content Startup Sites Manhattan Beach 204

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2021

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Local businesses won’t use a site until it has a critical mass of users.

Startup 144

Startup Sites Content Sales 144

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2009

Santa Monica-based eHow, an online "how to" site owned by Demand Media, said Wednesday that the firm is seeing an increase in economy and personal finance related articles, due to the economy. Demand Media is the well funded Internet media venture of former Intermix CEO and MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.

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eHow Santa Monica Demand Media 100