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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

Gil is one of the founders of Applied Semantics, the firm acquired by Google for its AdSense technology. 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. Is this similar?

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. Google App Engine - take more than two seconds to process we are going to kill your request. Must be willing to work the way Google expects. Server and client in Java.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

Both Sides of the Table

Web-based client for user stream data including Twitter (original focus), FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz, FourSquare and many others. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. Competitors: SmashWords , Google Books. They sponsor TWiVC.

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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. TechZulu & Gadget Review present REACH. Experience gadgets from the big brands with million dollar budgets to the startups bootstrapping and raising via IndieGoGo.

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

Both Sides of the Table

ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 Google turned YouTube into one of the most valuable future Internet properties. in terms of time spent on the sites.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. In case you don’t know Applied Semantics it’s Google AdSense. I was dead set against it.

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