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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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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. It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property.

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Interview: Venture Capitalists On Pitching

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Defensibility is also big--we're not interested in the me-too's without some unique IP. At GRP, we don't care about patents--they're nice to have, but not required--but we're looking for defensible IP in an area with an interesting, and big, idea. Rick Smith: I would say, at a slightly higher level, is passion.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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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

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ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. ThingFetcher update: The owners of ThingFetcher are now aware of the problem, and will try to fix it asap ( more information ). A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern.