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Epics3 Takes On Photo Sharing

socalTECH

Carlsbad-based Epics3 , a new startup focused on photo sharing through Twitter, Facebook, and other web sites, said today that it has launched its services. The new company, headed by Joe Moreno, said it will allow users to post photos to the web, and that it will share advertising revenue with users when people view their photos.

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DreamHost Debuts Public Cloud Storage Service Into GA

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DreamHost , the Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud services provider, said Tuesday that it has debuted its DreamObjects public cloud storage service into general availability, aiming the service at application storage, Web site backup, content storage, disaster recovery, as well as personal backups.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Current round: $3mm in Series B by betaworks (lead)(largest investor in company), Ron Conway, Danny Rimer, Accelerator Group, Roger Ehrenberg, Howard Lindzon. Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. Company still in beta. Competes with Seesmic , HootSuite , Brizzly. MetaMarkets.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

What's your new startup all about, and why did you start the company? That data can be on any subject--we're a horizontal platform--and a few of the examples you see on our site are a list of restaurants, things in the health space, and other partnerships. It's so much more than that, but that crystallizes the key thing.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

Tech Zulu Event

A quarterly event series seeking to dive deep into what comes next in technology, and giving you the opportunity to experience it first hand with the gadgets on site. Before working in California, Chris worked for Maryland based game companies MicroProse and Games Workshop. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. companies versus the Web 1.0