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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time. Technology evolution can be cyclical, with some branches looping back to the past with surprising vigor and without much self-awareness.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work. We're working on how quickly we can provision servers, and what those metrics are, and it's been fantastic. How has your shift to the cloud worked for you? We're using Elastic Beanstalk. I thought, what are we going to do?

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

socalTECH

The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. We provide traffic analytics, cross-tabulated across demographics, A/B testing to see how an audience is using certain pages, and engagement metrics.

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. We provide traffic analytics, cross-tabulated across demographics, A/B testing to see how an audience is using certain pages, and engagement metrics.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. I believe it’s truly morning in the technology sector. They compete on features, price and execution.