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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

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I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. Sparqlight – parts prebuilt before competition. Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. Welcome to the accelerated version of Startup Weekend. Teams: CoderTie.

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Dallas Day of.Net | Training and Trends on Microsoft Technologies

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Hilariously simple tutorials, gaming, Windows 8 real-time, Windows Azure as a virtually unlimited scaling mechanism, and of course, awesome web and mobile possibilities are just a few of the examples you’ll see demonstrated. Leveraging these techniques should put you on an even playing field or ahead of the native app competition.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. Much bigger. GumGum has two clients, the ad agencies/brands and the publishers.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

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An example: My best recent example of this is Ophir Tanz and Ari Mir. They suddenly had Javascript on pages that covered 40 million unique users and they were coming up with innovative ad products that combated banner blindness. They are some of the most talented young technology entrepreneurs in LA. That’s a great idea.

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Journey Platform To Build Data Gathering Mobile Apps | Co-founder Interview Conrad Hofmeyr

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Journey allows for powerful logic through high-level JavaScript, which is a language that millions of people are already familiar with. Learning simple JavaScript in order to build apps on Journey is however quite feasible. As an example, Banking Machine Services is a company that maintains thousands of ATMs across Southern Africa.

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CHNL – Social Network For All | Interview With John Wander, Co-founder & CEO

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Every day, there are numerous examples of videos, articles, images, music that reach us via CHNL that simply don’t exist / could never exist outside of the internet. It’s built on Ruby with HTML5/javascript using Isotope. For competitive reasons, we don’t want to disclose this just yet. In addition, Web 2.0

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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eCommerce is an enormously competitive search term. The disadvantage is that you can’t install a lot of additional tools that use Javascript. Linking to other blogs – For example, many people know that I love VentureHacks because it’s a great resource for entrepreneurs and I think that Babak Nivi is a star.

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