SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. In other words, it uses what is happening: with the content out in the network with searches that land on the site, what happens when people visit the site, and various other kinds of behaviors.

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Daradiction

JULY 24, 2009

My pal Denny Dansereau gave me beta access to his new “Story Crawler&# web app and I’m stoked, and for a few reasons. Think Google Alerts on steroids with ability to push out and publish or syndicate. It’s a great event based social network, and they have a new app called “Discover&# I’m excited to use.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , Mahalo Profile Page. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Huddle allows users to maintain an interconnected network of secure online workspaces for file sharing, ideation, project management and virtual meetings.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. The 1st place winner was SnazzyRoom, an online styling tool for mixing and matching items on the web ( SnazzyRoom.com ). Sunday morning rolled around and it was down to crunch-time.

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