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BuzzFeed Hires Web Video Pioneer Ze Frank
Here’s a good chocolate/peanut butter combination: Buzzfeed, the click-factory that has figured out Facebook and Twitter, plus Ze Frank, the guy who figured out Web video back in its infancy. Together...
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Plaor Hires Former Zynga Designer for Social Games-Celebrity Mash-Up
Plaor, a Los Angeles-based social games maker that hopes to allow fans to interact and play directly with celebrities, has hired former Zynga poker designer Shawn Carnes to the position of Director of...
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LAPD Posts 'Grim Sleeper' Photos To Facebook, Twitter In To Help Identify...
In the hopes of identifying possible victims of the so-called “Grim Sleeper” killer, the Los Angeles Police Department has posted images of 42 women w… Read more: Grim Sleeper, California, Twitter,...
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Path's Personal Take on Social Discovery
Path, the small-scale “personal network” that limits users to 150 friends, released a much-lauded feature last week, a slick search function that allows users to comb through the history of their...
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Marissa Lepor: Captive to Modernity
What is freedom? That’s a fairly intense question for someone to ask a nineteen-year-old. What do I know about freedom? I live in Los Angeles, Califor… Read more: Instagram, Foursquare, Social Media,...
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Facebook Hopes To Be A ‘Thorn’ In The Side Of Child Pornography, Abuse
Facebook is among the major Internet companies involved in talks with Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, a Los Angeles-based organization started by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore to combat child...
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MyTime Wants to Create a One-Stop Shopping Destination for Local Services
MyTime is a new service launching in Los Angeles today that makes booking appointments for a haircut, carpet cleaning and yoga as easy as checking out on Amazon.com. The company is backed by $3 million...
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Former Rovio Execs Raise $2.35M For Seriously, A New Casual Gaming Studio
Seriously, a new gaming startup from the execs who oversaw Angry Birds-maker Rovio’s game slate and licensing business, just picked up $2.35 million in seed funding. Leading the round are Los Angeles’...
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Gratafy Lets You Send Food & Drink Gifts To Friends Using Just Their Email Or...
Starting today, you can send your friends and family members gifts using only their email address or phone number. This new trick comes from Gratafy, a Seattle-based social gifting platform launched...
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Five daring predictions for social marketing in 2014
#1. Brands will get braver on social, but will they be ready when it’s too much? Content is king in 2014 and to break through the noise and reach “uber engagement” brands will become more daring. But,...
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Mother’s Day: More than 27M U.S. moms on Facebook
Facebook’s Data Science Team recently took a deep dive into Mother’s Day, finding that more than 27 million U.S. women identify as mothers, with the highest concentration of moms occurring in Wyoming....
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StumbleUpon's Cody Simms To Depart, Replaced By New VP Of Product David Marks
Content discovery service StumbleUpon is getting a new head of product. Chief Product Officer Cody Simms told me he will be transitioning to an advisory role with the company at the end of August....
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