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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

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MARCH 30, 2010

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. Enter Burstly.

Mobile 282

Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Those companies are already going to be crushed by Skype’s new screen sharing capabilities. Time will tell.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. Therefore if you want to change just one field of data we had to redraw the entire screen. Enter Apple.

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Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326