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Cloudflare, Backed By Qualcomm Ventures, Eyes IPO

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San Francisco-based Cloudflare , which provides a service which helps web site and web application developers manage caching and access to their websites, protecting against cyberattacks, distributed denial of service (DDoS)--and which is backed by Qualcomm--is heading towards an IPO.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. So did the media.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. SimpleGeo – Provider of simple, turnkey location based services to content publishers and online service providers looking to location-enable their applications or services. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

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I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

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It required content sites to develop totally new content. And being gateways to the customer they naturally extracted their pound of flesh from mobile application developers. Google would soon follow with their own phones, it was rumored. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps.

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Q Manning of Rocksauce Studios | Founder Interview

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Early in the days of devices, it was tougher to get great performance from Web Dev based applications, but as the phones and tablets grow in power, the responsiveness is becoming almost indistinguishable. What are your thoughts on the direction from a design perspective of application development for 2012?

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