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Interview with Quinn Curtis, BrightCloud

socalTECH

Quinn Curtis: We were around since 2005, we were incorporated and funded in 2006. We're also very much marching down the path of IP reputation as well. Because Webroot was looking to bring that technology in-house, and own their own IP, they were looking for the best-of-breed product, and BrightCloud fit that criteria on both fronts.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. Richard Neff, Head IP & Tech Group of Greenberg Glusker Richard Neff is a partner at the law firm of Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles and Chair of the Firm's Intellectual Property and Technology Practice Group.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

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Between 2005 and 2008, there were lots of companies raising half a million, and selling for 15 million. Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. Mark Suster: I would say we were hesitant in 2008. We were hesitant in 2008, because we saw a lack of realism in valuations.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com"