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Venturing in the Privacy Tug-Of War

SoCal Tech Calendar

Saturday, January 14, 2012 -- Venturing in the Privacy Tug-Of War: Opportunities in Controlling Personal Data. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Some are pushing the envelope in areas such as location-based services, facial recognition, and social media semantic analysis in order to exploit our personal information.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Event Details.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. He built & IPOd Demand Media. Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Streaming media. Social media. August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. October 20, 2012 1:57 PM. October 17, 2012 1:15 PM. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Interviews.

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Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA’s Department of Neurosurgery, and NYUMoran is interested in attention, emotions regulations, and dreams. Lucien is also co-founder and co-director of a new game and interactive-based school launching in Los Angeles in the fall 2012. He is featured in this months LA Weekly for the “Best of LA People 2012?

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). I predict this will come before the end of 2012. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0