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• MySpace redesign to match Facebook feature for feature [Rumormonger]

  Published: November 16, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Collegehumor, Connected Ventures, Facebook, Myspace, Rumormonger, Top, Vimeo, Zach Klein

  job. Word is MySpace wants Connected Ventures cofounder Zach Klein, best known for designing Vimeo and CollegeHumor. Here's a quick look at some of Klein's work. Here's a typical CollegeHumor page: My guess is Klein would get the gig for his work at Vimeo:

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• "Twentysomething boy millionaire" explains how Web works to "younger person" [Jakob Lodwick]

  Published: November 28, 2007, 3:40 pm

  Tags: Connected Ventures, Iac, Jakob Lodwick, Julia Allison, Vimeo

  Jakob Lodwick took a moment away from running the video site he founded, Vimeo, to blog some of the advice he'd been giving a "younger person named Chris about web development." Younger? This from a guy Wallstrip's Lindsay Campbell described as "just a normal, twentysomething boy millionaire." Share with us, oh wise and aged one, your precious

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• Did Julia Allison's boobs get Jakob Lodwick fired? [Vimeo]

  Published: November 30, 2007, 9:31 pm

  Tags: Connected Ventures, Gawker, Iac, Jakob Lodwick, Julia Allison, Vimeo

  Jakob Lodwick, the Vimeo founder allegedly fired today from the IAC-controlled online-video site loves to post racy photos of himself and his love, notorious New York nobody and Star editor-at-large Julia Allison. That fact can't have been lost on his corporate overseers, which makes commenter brigamortis's theory -- that he'd been fired for

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• Was Jakob Lodwick fired from Vimeo? [Lazy Valleywag]

  Published: November 30, 2007, 6:41 pm

  Tags: Connected Ventures, Exits, Iac, Jakob Lodwick, Lazy Valleywag, Online Video, Vimeo

  We now hear that Jakob Lodwick, the fame-seeking oddball who started Vimeo, didn't quit the IAC-controlled video site -- he was fired. And probably not for his views on Web development, either. Anyone know more?

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• Jakob Lodwick quits IAC video site [Vimeo]

  Published: November 30, 2007, 5:22 pm

  Tags: Connected Ventures, Exits, Iac, Jakob Lodwick, Top, Vimeo

  with IAC/InterActiveCorp/Connected Ventures/Vimeo. No hard feelings!" writes Jakob Lodwick on his blog. A shame. Lodwick's work at the Barry Diller-controlled online-video venture was our only excuse for paying attention to him and his can't-stop-watching trainwreck of a relationship with notorious nobody Julia Allison. Aside from your work

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• Jakob Lodwick Out At Vimeo, Connected Ventures, IAC

  Published: November 30, 2007, 5:47 pm

  Tags: Collegehumor, Connected Ventures, Hires And Fires, Home, Iac, Peter Kafka

  with IAC/InterActiveCorp/Connected Ventures/Vimeo. No hard feelings!". Also no longer working at Vimeo: Jonathan Marcus, who we talked to a few weeks ago at the Founders Club, when he was telling us Vimeo was up to some very exciting things. No idea if the two departures are connected.Jakob's the second of the College Humor dudes to leave

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• Connected Ventures party busted by cops [Jakob Lodwick]

  Published: December 3, 2007, 3:31 am

  Tags: Clips, Connected Ventures, Gawker, Iac, Jakob Lodwick, Kevin Colleran, Party Report, Vimeo

  police officers broke up the Connected Ventures holiday party. Unknown at this time is the aftermath of the officers' visit or the reason why the cops were called. (Noise? One hopes there's more to it than that.) Also unknown: the level of awkwardness created by the Lodwick's abrupt exit from Connected Ventures, the IAC-controlled startup which

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• Jakob Lodwick working with Tumblr? [Exits]

  Published: December 3, 2007, 6:29 pm

  Tags: Connected Ventures, David Karp, Exits, Iac, Jakob Lodwick, Tumblr, Vimeo

  Jakob Lodwick, no longer Barry Diller's secret weapon, is out at Vimeo, the IAC-controlled online-video site he founded. So what's next for the notorious fame-seeker? Above is a photo of what Lodwick calls "my new Manhattan office" on his blog. It's also the home of Tumblr, the increasingly popular blog engine oft-touted by VC blogger Fred Wilson

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• Exclusive! Jakob Lodwick Uses E-Mail

  Published: December 5, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: Connected Ventures, Home, Peter Kafka, Vimeo

  passes us along to former Connected Ventures co-worker Ricky Van Veen for "specifics of the inbox issue." Adds Ricky: "Jake and I have talked about the idea of giving up email for some better form of communication in the past, but he never asked anybody to not email him or stopped using email."So there you go. One story debunked. Next?

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• Working For Barry Diller Is Awesome

  Published: December 6, 2007, 9:24 am

  Tags: Barry Diller, Collegehumor, Connected Ventures, Home, Iac, Peter Kafka

  hearing chatter that the Connected Ventures/College Humor team aren't having a great time working for Barry Diller's IAC. Argument in favor of this proposition: Two of the four guys Barry bought a year ago have left this fall. Argument against: Look at these pictures from their holiday party last weekend! They had a monkey! That looks pretty

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• Merry Christmas from IAC's Ricky Van Veen and his women [Connected Ventures]

  Published: December 6, 2007, 7:52 pm

  Tags: Connected Ventures, Iac, Ricky Van Veen

  is on to her next geek, Connected Ventures cofounder Ricky Van Veen. But don't worry, the family's fine. Van Veen is pictured here with his significant other and some girl. "Her name is Anna," Van Veen tells me. "And before she was my girlfriend, she was a model for our T-shirt site, BustedTees." We're not going to see a RickyandAnna.com

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• Jakob Lodwick on driving the old people out with slinkies [Cubicle Culture]

  Published: December 7, 2007, 4:41 pm

  Tags: Connected Ventures, Cubicle Culture, Iac, Jakob Lodwick, Vimeo

  Jakob Lodwick explains how Connected Ventures keeps the office young. His opening thought is the kind of thing that's best both read and viewed. So, here. For your pleasure. If you want to have a young office full of vibrant new ideas, just buy a bunch of slinkies. That will make all the old people turn into -- no, not turn into young people

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• Muxtape hacked, causing emo indie types to weep more than usual [Breakdowns]

  Published: May 21, 2008, 5:20 pm

  Tags: Breakdowns, Connected Ventures, Jakob Lodwick, Justin Ouellette, Muxtape

  Could a sufficiently emo Connected Ventures engineer ticked at Muxtape backer Jakob Lodwick's poaching of Justin Ouellette have decided to take matters into his own hands?

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• Classic Jakob Lodwick video further explains post-Lodwick productivity surge [Clips]

  Published: August 4, 2008, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Clips, Connected Ventures, Iac, Jakob Lodwick, Ricky Van Veen, Vimeo, Zach Klein

  he's not that hard-working. Connected Ventures cofounder Zach Klein reminisces about the early days of Connected Ventures, the IAC-backed testosteronefest behind CollegeHumor and Vimeo. Lodwick leads the startup's crew in singing "Semi-Charmed Kind of Life," and trashes cofounder Ricky Van Veen's cardboard cutout of Shaquille O'Neal. Any

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