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Burn Baby Burn: Is Traditional Licensing of Content Joining the Business Models Torched by New Technology and the Web

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, October 22, 2009 -- Burn Baby Burn: Is Traditional Licensing of Content Joining the Business Models Torched by New Technology and the Web? What You Need to Know About the New Growth After the Firestorm. Linux, Chang v. Virgin Mobile, and Jacobsen v.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

socalTECH

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. We were in closed beta for a while, and launched in August of 2009. How long has the site been up and running? Thanks, and good luck!

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Would you like to make Chrome your default Mac browser?

Tech Zulu Event

Although the Internet was invented years before on the campus of UCLA, It wasn’t until Christmas day 1990 that Tim Berners-Lee , completed the first browser for the world wide web (on a NeXT computer). December 2009. The Java script engine in Chrome seems every bit as lightning fast as Safari’s, if not faster.

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