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Phonevite Lands In LA

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Both Nahm and Kim were at voice-over-IP firm Dialpad, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2005. Phonevite is angel backed, and allows users to record messages via the web or a phone, add phone numbers to send that message to, and schedule a time to send the message.

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Interview with Quinn Curtis, BrightCloud

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Last week, San Diego-based provider of web content classification and security services developer BrightCloud was acquired by Webroot , and we thought it would be a great opportunity to talk to founder Quinn Curtis about how the acquisition of his firm came about. We're also very much marching down the path of IP reputation as well.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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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). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Dr. Tony Karrer, CEO/CTO of TechEmpower Dr. Tony Karrer is the CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web, and eLearning development firm.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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They can start on mobile online, or mobile and web, and then develop other applications for Snap TV, Roku, and scale the service as they move forward. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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What we've done, is for authentication, we have created a way to have a unique password to give you access to a web site very time. When you're sitting at a computer with a known, registered IP, we know it is you and your particular category of images, and you can log in.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,