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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. Interestingly it was same developers in both companies. It's funny.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

Publishers can come and snap valuable data into our website, to augment end user's experience, and developers can help user our data and our API to build more innovative applications, and to be more productive because of the significant availability of this trusted data. That makes the lives of developers difficult. Is this similar?

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

They started by offering cloud storage (S3) on a super cheap, pay-as-you consume basis. The biggest media attention in our industry went to the so-called “super angels&# during the 2009/10 timeframe and while I don’t believe there is such thing as a super angel I believe that much media attention was deserved.

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The Business of Gaming | REACH Games Event Recap

Tech Zulu Event

One of many topics that were in discussion was the new development process of games. Josh Yguado says, “For us the development cycle never stops. Once the game gets released to the public, that’s when you add developers. Because every week, every month you are adding new content, new versions to the game, tweaking levels…”.

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

Tech Zulu Event

The REACH event will bring together some of gaming’s most influential thinkers, creators, and developers who will guide us through their vision of the next evolution of gaming. Speakers: [Moderator] Scot Rubin - Owner NITROPOD /SVP Digital Media Big Door /Cofounder G4TV. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN).

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners. Customer are primarily large media companies (publishers) and their media agencies. Developer of Appsaurus , a mobile app recommendation engine. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Brought in new CEO, Russ Reeder in 2008.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.