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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Web application performance is a broad discipline. Overall, performance is in the service of user expectations. “It was running fine.” What do we mean by performance?

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eHarmony Settles Same-Sex Class Action Lawsuit

socalTECH

Pasadena-based online dating site eHarmony has settled a class action lawsuit over its lack of support for gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals, the firm reported Tuesday evening. The firm later launched Compatible Partners , a same-sex matching service, in March of 2009, on pressure from the State of New Jersey.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

(Editor's note: we're crossposting a version of this interview between our Rocky Mountain site, techrockies.com, and our Southern California site, socalTECH.com). Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. What is Sendgrid?

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Search leverages selective filtering via XMPP versus site indexing; only real-time search player to do so. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData).

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Interview with Sean Broihier, Fine Art America

socalTECH

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. So, buyers will come to our site, which has all of these beautiful images from all. building a web site for him. I figured there.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. The SimpleGeo API will provide you access to these services. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Mobile gifting service. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. LibreDigital.