socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2013

YouMail , the enhanced voicemail and voicemail application developer, is looking to purge out a backlog of inactive users, saying Tuesday that it has revised its terms of service to make it easier for the company to delete users who haven't used the service recently.

Sites 147

Sites Web Content Services 147

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2011

Long Beach-based interactive applications developer Cie Studios , the developer of the Facebook game Car Town, reported this week that it has launched a new website and online experience for tire brand Nitto Tire. Nitto apparently has been using the firm for the past 13 years.

Long Beach 145

Long Beach Mobile Report Sites 145

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Venice-based Viddy , the mobile application developer founded by JJ Aguhob and Brett O'Brien, is powering a new social video app from Snoop Dogg. Viddy's app is free to download on iTunes. READ MORE>>.

Venice 140

Venice Mobile Content Sites 140

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2009

Los Angeles-based Demand Media 's LIVESTRONG.com web site, the online health and fitness information web site run in conjunction with Lance Armstrong, said this week that it has rolled out a new 'Calorie Tracker' aplication for the RIM BlackBerry.

Demand 100

Demand Web Media Los Angeles 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

This model facilitates donations to charities and creative projects, and has been around for a long time via sites such as Rockethub. This model been popular in many countries for years, where banks loans are not available, via sites such as LendingClub and Kiva. Donation good-cause model. Startup equity model. In the U.S.,

Venture Capital 108

Venture Capital Angel Satisfaction Equity 108

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. A good example site, and one of the earliest in this category, is IndieGoGo. This has been popular in many countries for years via sites like LendingClub and Kiva. Sites like IdeaBounty get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds.

Funding 99

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 99

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

San Diego-based RealGifts has a new take on earning dollars from Facebook applications: allowing users to purchase real, tangible items from the popular social networking site.

Seed Funding 100

Seed Funding San Diego Social Network Sites 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

Example sites include StartSomeGood and the Facebook Cause page. A good example site, and one of the earliest in this category, is IndieGoGo. This has been popular in many countries for years via sites like LendingClub and Kiva. Sites like GeniusCrowd get your ideas off the shelf, and give you the wisdom of the crowds.

Funding 96

Funding Satisfaction Sites Outsource Development 96

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

The service is free to use and focuses on creating the best possible user-experience among the applications developed around the Twitter Application Programming Interface (API). Tweetphoto is an extensible photo sharing platform, that allows you to send photos via mobile or email to Twitter and Facebook.

Web 40

Web Sites San Diego Social Network 40

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

So even if that business doesn't exist as anything but a web site, we want them to avoid unnecessary technology risks. Although we spend plenty of time researching and developing with new technologies based on desire and need, we don't want our clients to be guinea pigs (unless that's the nature of their business, of course).

Web 200

Web Platform Technology JavaScript 200

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

Our main differentiation from what's out there now in the mobile area, is we allow developers to target their audience segment however they want, whether that is by time of day, by campaign, and we also turn control over to application developers, so they can transparently see and target their ads, to a greater degree.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid (www.sendgrid.com) has stepped into that void, providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and all the infrastructure required to handle that email delivery. How do you offload all those headaches?

Email 157

Email Startup IP Newsletter 157

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 12, 2015

They are required to make applications and web sites that are interactive and invigorate users. There is also the technological aspect of incorporating e-commerce into the web site designs that they must consider working with. They are required to design for multiple platforms and devices. appeared first on TechZulu.

Web 40

Web Cloud Computing Search Engine Optimization Outsource Development 40

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 25, 2013

Oh, and did we mention the dedicated WiFi (a notorious problem at SXSW), on-site bar and expansive views? Mike Schwartz, Application Developers Alliance. We aimed to re-create the more intimate setting of earlier Interactive festivals, while at the same time offering broader exposure beyond the city walls, and it worked.

Web Design 91

Web Design Conference Media Mobile 91

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

The site caters to people that pay out-of-pocket for their healthcare needs. Divshot is a tool for web application developers. It is the first interface prototyping tool that gives its users the ease of a drag-and-drop mockup application. Doctors Coupons is exactly what it sounds like.

Startup 85

Startup Miramar Venture Capital Santa Monica 85

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

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.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

As part of that, we launched a web site to allow people to order printing online, and we also saw the ability to use QR codes to augment that printing. Was it difficult going from print to mobile application development? So, 10 years ago and left to run Charlie Chan Printing. Hamilton Chan: It was exciting and thrilling.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

The company’s co-founders have a background in mobile application development and together built the first mobile app for one of the largest overnight delivery companies in the United States. Around the same time, Garrick’s wife, mother of four, was ready to head back into the workforce.

Los Angeles 79

Los Angeles Angel Examples Mobile 79

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

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 also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

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 also just recently launched a standard API, which allows any social networking site to use our analytics code.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Those sites are on the large side, with 20,000 or 30,000 people. They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work. Mark Sylvester: That's a great question. We love data visualization. They are big, private communities. How has your shift to the cloud worked for you?

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool LAMP 203

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). People got their knickers in a twist when they saw people like Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble having advertisers and endorsing brands on their sites. Image courtesy of Bernhardt Haussner. Then came blogs. Just ask MySpace.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Last month, Beverly Hills-based Nash Information Services , the firm behind The Numbers --one of the most extensive database of financial information about movies--announced a new service which allows third party software applications and websites to pull information from the firm's database, via OpusData (www.opusdata.com).

Beverly Hills 164

Beverly Hills Research Hollywood Sites 164

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

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. So Apple has encouraged application developers to set loose building apps. We’re doing nothing.&# And I refused to say more.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last week, Los Angeles-based FastPay (www.fastpaypartners.com) announced a round of funding and its services for providing advanced payment to online publishers, application developers, and game developers. However, we're lots less strict than a bank, and if you come to our site you can learn more about our services.

Advertising 133

Advertising .Net Startup Funding 133

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

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?

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94