SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

He said that there remains a very healthy market for “data oriented&# software companies because the world is moving more toward measurability and software companies with differentiated IP often get a premium in the market. Is a super-simple online management and admin tool for real-world groups. Revenue of ~$160mm in 2008.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

MM: What tools did you use to stay in touch? DB: My service was up in August of 2008, and I moved back to the U.S. Not to mention this was August of 2008, about a month before the economic collapse. I now realize that our networks are the backbone of the tools I relied upon to talk to my family. Mostly Skype.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

How to Identify the Bot You Want to Block Before you can block a bot, you will need to know at least one of two things: the IP address where the bot is coming from or the"User Agent string" that the bot is using. Once youve located the entries that belong to the bot, look for the IP address and the user agent string. Be careful though.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am. Block IP address. Block IP address. Block IP address.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

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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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.

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