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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

Ostendo Technologies, a Carlsbad, CA-based company founded in 2005 to advance curved screens and other innovative display technologies, has raised $41.8 Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter.

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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiridellis, JibJab

socalTECH

The mythology of StoryBots, is that they are these little creature who live behind our screens. We also have an activity center, when parents can download printables. Those printables, ironically, get kids off of their computer and from in front of a screen, and instead let them sit at a kitchen table with crayons.

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StoryBots And The Future of Learning,With Gregg Spiradellis, JibJab

socalTECH

The mythology of StoryBots, is that they are these little creature who live behind our screens. We also have an activity center, when parents can download printables. Those printables, ironically, get kids off of their computer and from in front of a screen, and instead let them sit at a kitchen table with crayons.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). They started in January of 2005. We take that number, and send them a one-time PIN code.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

prefer instead to divide it according to the mindset of users: whether or not they are actively looking to purchase something (i.e. He started targeting the ad by location and interest, and the number of potential people he was reaching began decreasing on screen (Facebook tells you dynamically). Do fewer structured activities.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

Unlike those IM clients with a small (ineffective) footprint, Meebo experience is a website and a full page screen. Because you put ads in front of user for a long time and cover the whole screen Meebo click-rates are very high. In 2005, Meebo started connected users across other websites.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I was starting. Aren’t pitch decks still the norm? “I