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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to. Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog. They put on great events.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies. It's funny. Everything else is closed.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. Developers. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. blog comments powered by Disqus. Skip to secondary content.

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Westlake Bio Unveils $320M Fund to Put Los Angeles on the Biotech Map

Xconomy

The Los Angeles-based firm is led by managing directors Beth Seidenberg, a former general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, and Sean Harper, the outgoing executive vice president of research and development at Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN ). Harper will start with Westlake in January after retiring from Amgen.

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Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

Gianelle Veis , manager of prize development at X PRIZE Foundation. Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA’s Department of Neurosurgery, and NYUMoran is interested in attention, emotions regulations, and dreams. Director of Business Development, WellnessFXZak is fascinated by the cross section of technology, experience design and health.