Tech Coast Venture Network

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Manal Richa Social networking is not about technology or what you had for lunch. While creating a major shift in messaging and communication, social networking is literarily changing the way we look at the world. Keep in mind though that social networking is a two-way street. Two-way conversation.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2009

Just read this article - Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue That could be really bad news. Part of the appeal of twitter is that it's a fairly open platform and that there are a lot of people building tools that live on top of the platform. I wonder if this will come up tonight at the social networking panel I'm moderating.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2020

Traditional venture capitalists may have made it rain on expensive Hollywood studios that were promising virtual reality would be the future of entertainment and social networking (given coronavirus fears, it may yet be), but Talespin and others like it are focused on much more mundane goals.

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MAY 14, 2010

San Diego-based Confident Technologies , the new startup which is using image authentication technology originally developed by Vidoop, has rolled out its image-based CAPTCHA tools, the firm said this week.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

A new study of social media activity and e-commerce, compiled from Los Angeles social tools developer Social Annex , shows that social media is--not surprisingly--playing a far bigger role in online shopping this year. The company highlighted some of its result in an infographic (reproduced below). READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 6, 2012

Aliso VIejo-based CitizenHawk , the venture backed provider of online brand protection services, said today that it has launched a new set of tools aimed at helping users to search and find use of their trademarked terms and phrases. The set of tools includes ways to monitor online auctions, images, domains, social networks, and more.

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JANUARY 26, 2010

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace has launched a beta of a new social playlist service, My Music 2.0 , the firm said Tuesday. According to MySpace, the music playlist hub will allow users to build and manage their own social playlists from its music catalog. Among features of My Music 2.0 READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Westlake Village-based PurePhoto.com , a new startup headed by former NextMedium COO John Ellis, and whose exec team includes prior executives from ReachLocal, ValueClick, and YellowPages.com, said Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of Los Angeles-based PhotographyMentor , an online photography education and social networking site.

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JUNE 23, 2010

Brian McKelvey: We're building a virtual world, which attaches to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and all the social networks. Brian McKelvey: I'd been looking around at all the social gaming platforms and virtual worlds online, such as Second Life, Farmville, and other apps on the Apple App Store for inspiration.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The firm's products include tools to help synchronize venue information between multiple social networks; providing consistent offers and promotions across those services; and other tools to help retailers understand how consumers are engaging with retail locations through those various services.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Westlake Village-based FavRav is hoping to leverage the popularity of social networking site Facebook to help local businesses find new customers. According to FavRav, it has launched a new social media tool targeted at small businesses, to help those businesses generate referrals from existing customers. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: A Comprehensive View of Social Marketing, Social Media, and Social Networks. Blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social platforms can be low-cost marketing tools (great for anyone in this economic climate!)

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

According to USC, the new lab--backed by IBM, Verizon, the Levi's brand and Mattel--will focus on the areas of geolocation, social networking, digital entertainment, gaming behavior and transmedia.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2011

Social networking can help, but a large list of online friends and followers is no substitute for a smaller list of personal and ongoing business relationships. Many of my younger friends use various social networks on a daily basis and think that they will thereby avoid this problem.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Part of the plan which we are already doing, is working on top of existing social networks like Facebook. We can leverage the social graph already in place. Secondarily, we've created a set of tools which makes it very easy to communicate with experts and each other around the subject of weight loss, specifically.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Los Angeles-based BakeSpace.com , the online social networking and recipe site, has a new product for you. Wish that cookbook for your church, school, or club could enter the modern age?

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. Together with Signal Sciences, we will give developers modern security tools designed for the way they work.”.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Aliso Viejo-based CitizenHawk , the venture backed developer of online brand protection services, said today that it has launched a social media monitoring tool. Cost of the new tool was not announced. CitizenHawk is led by David Duckwitz. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 27, 2011

Venice, California-based Viddy , a new startup developing mobile video tools, said today that it has raised $1.6M in a first round of financing, and launched a mobile video creation and sharing tool for the iPhone. The firm said it is creating a "Twitter-style feed of videos from friends, family, celebrities". READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Santa Monica-based social analytics software developer MomentFeed announced this week that it has been accepted into the Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) Program, Facebook''s program for linking with companies who develop technologies in the advertising, page management, social integration, and tool areas for the social networking site.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2012

Telcentris operates VoxOx, a consumer focused service providing unified voice, text, chat, fax, and social networking tools, and VoxOx In Business, a VoIP business phone plan. According to Telcentris, Johansson has more than 35 years of experience in the telecom and wireless industry. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Hollywood-based Taltopia.com , an online social networking site for artists, said today that it is launching a new tool which aggregates casting calls and job postings in the entertainment and arts industry. The firm said its service will allow members to search for jobs by area code or talent category.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. They want to know about when my son scores a goal (ok, probably not) not when I’m debating somebody online about the future of social networks. TechCrunch switched from Disqus to Facebook. I want to stay independent.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace said today that it has launched a new, revamped version of the firm's game homepage, as a new MySpace Games site, to provide a more social gaming environment. Tags: myspace games gaming social networking. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Atomkeep , an online service to help users synchronize their social media profiles across a number of social networking sites, has been acquired by Jobscience , a developer of social relationship management software tools. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed.

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MAY 9, 2012

Santa Monica-based MomentFeed , the developer of location analytics software for companies, said today that it has integrated with the popular photo sharing and social networking app Instagram.

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JULY 11, 2012

What does social networking have to do with the stock market? Vinny talked with us about his start, which allows users to discuss and collaborate on their stocks and finances in a social way. We wanted to tackle that problem, by using a social network. In that network, we bring in content from all over the web.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Los Angeles-based venture investor Trousdale Ventures announced this morning that it has made an investment in Preamble, a startup offering up "ethical artificial intelligence" moderation to social networks. Size of the seed funding round was not announced.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

Santa Monica-based Nimble , the online, customer relationship management (CRM) tool developer, has tied with Simi Valley-based TeamAutomation , a business and IT consulting firm focused on customer relationship management tools.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 9, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009 -- Industry Trends, Social Media and Web 2.0 Would you like to learn and understand the most effective ways to get the attention of the hundreds of millions of active social networkers around the world?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. I got to thinking more broadly about social networks and the real-time web. Facebook has much more value to me as a networking tool.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based Xfire , the online social networking and chat service aimed at gamers, said this morning that it is making it easier for users to capture and share videos of their game play, and post it on a YouTube channel. million videos captured using its social app. Xfire said it already has over 5.5 READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2012

PromoJam said the deal, with Inception Digital , a digital consultancy serving the region, to make PromoJam's tools available to clients in Australia and New Zealand. PromoJam's tools make it easier for companies to manage their social marketing promotions, across a range of social networks. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 21, 2012

Los Angeles-based PromoJam , a developer of enterprise, social marketing tools, has raised $1.2M According to the company, the new round will go towards growing its social marketing software, plus expansion of sales and marketing. in a Series A investment, the firm said today.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2010

He told me that it has become an essential tool to their business. But I can always see the correlation between writing a blog or publishing on a social network and traffic. Like most analytics tools I can get my geo map from Chartbeat. asked Tyler Crowley how they used it. I find this addictive.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

GraphEffect develops marketing analytics tools which tap into the world of social networking and media. The company said it has become a Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) by Facebook, which it says is the "highest distinction" offered by Facebook to its marketing partners.

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