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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. Gil Elbaz from Applied Semantics has now created Factual. Los Angeles. People either love it our hate it.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

We are a city unique in merging the world’s best content with digital media and technology expertise. In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. startupcto

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Chronicling the undoing of traditional media. To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. In the case of social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr, the root activity on the site is the sharing of content.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Of course we know that this is already happening as web services are now driving significant portions of the Internet and people are driving toward a future Semantic Web. And while networks of computers now regularly interact with each other, so too is the future of Twitter. Consider some simple examples. I'm late and on the road.I

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