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

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

socalTECH

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 Mobile 233

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. Aaron Gustafson, Adaptive Web Design. Relive the moments here. A group discussion from RAPP. Redg Snodgrass. Shaherose Charania, Women 2.0. Startup Institute.

Web Design 91

Web Design Conference Media Mobile 91

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

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. That was a kerfuffle too.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

A number of web services has popped up in recent years that has helped cater to people with busy lives. Zipments is a web service that connects your delivery needs with couriers in your area. I recently spoke with Laura Pecherski and asked her a few questions about Zipments.

Los Angeles 79

Los Angeles Angel Examples Mobile 79

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

JUNE 25, 2012

Those sites are on the large side, with 20,000 or 30,000 people. The answer was yes, and we also saw that we could begin to play at web scale, be hosted in the cloud, be scalable in an extensive way. They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work.

Social Media 203

Social Media Startup Tool HTML 203

Both Sides of the Table

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. It required content sites to develop totally new content. The mobile web would finally be open!

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

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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

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

Initially, my desire to go into the mobile space came from my love for design and my weariness with web or print related art. 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.

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94