SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. How much member profile information do you need before allowing a user to login? Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Commenting?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. How do you use LinkedIn?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In what is a fairly unusual move, last week, Tradesparq (www.tradesparq.com), a Chinese startup in the area of B2B trade information, said it was planning on setting up its operations here in Southern California, as part of an expansion and scaling of the company. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. Grow, grow, grow.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

How excited am I likely to be when I see a plan for a new generation of buggy whip, or another me-too social network? This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 30, 2010

People seem to be missing the really big picture of the value of social media and really the Internet for that matter. They look at how current social networking sites work and how online and offline relationships currently work and make the assumption that this represents the value proposition.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 18, 2010

Vince: On the consulting side we are working with a unique social network, a new television network and some original video content businesses. For example you say: Vince: Ignited Managers thrive because of their unique ability to connect and leverage their informal networks for the good of the company.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

They ask for a little bit additional information and that's it, you are up and going. They've also done a nice job of importing LinkedIn background information. They have the following information on your home page about what's happening with endorsements to get you into it more often. You connect with Facebook.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

They ask for a little bit additional information and that's it, you are up and going. They've also done a nice job of importing LinkedIn background information. They have the following information on your home page about what's happening with endorsements to get you into it more often. You connect with Facebook.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

What can be done using information that already exists? Well chances are there are some partners or sites where you can get information on jobs today. In other words, someone puts in their information and two days later you come back with a list of potential matches. Likely there is lots of job information already available.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 31, 2011

What can be done using information that already exists? Well chances are there are some partners or sites where you can get information on jobs today. In other words, someone puts in their information and two days later you come back with a list of potential matches. Likely there is lots of job information already available.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

DotSpots was organized around distributed objects, and organizing ths thoughts of people all over the world, in all the newspapers, and organizing the semantic blocks of information around those thoughts. It would allow anyone to connect into information and add annotations anywhere. It was too head of its time.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

DotSpots was organized around distributed objects, and organizing ths thoughts of people all over the world, in all the newspapers, and organizing the semantic blocks of information around those thoughts. It would allow anyone to connect into information and add annotations anywhere. It was too head of its time.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Don Patterson, the co-founders of Irvine-based Quub (www.quub.com), which has taken research which Dr. Patterson was working on at UC Irvine and applied it to the world of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and other social networking sites. Ruan is the CEO of the firm, and Dr. Patterson is the CTO.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information. Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Once, is we've licensed content from sources, two, is companies can take control of their profile and customize their information, and three, we've harvested information off the Internet to augment the profiles. It's a full-blown, B2B social network. This is a solution they need, and we'd love to have their participation.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. The Geodelic network introduces discovery, replacing the need to search for information. At Lunch, you share and discover genuinely useful information and ideas. He is a frequent public speaker. ycombinator.com. . Lisa Stone.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Matt is also the Chief Technology Officer of CyberCoders, a leading recruiting firm that places top talent in every job type and industry.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The venture capital process is a necessary and informative experience that is not for the faint hearted.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Social gaming was naturally one of the key topics, covered in many presentations. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. 10 cents per DAU.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

From there, you will generally see a pop-up dialog similar to the following (this one is from CitySearch): Once you click Connect, the original site now knows that I’m Tony Karrer from Facebook and the various demographic and friend information from Facebook. Would friend information be valuable? No registration on Disqus required.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 16, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 16, 2007 F2F Still Matters Kathy Sierra has a great post today: Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video. And because you are online, you will have access to all sorts of information about the people, what their interests are - it will be easily captured.

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