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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. We ran software on the PCs called “terminal emulation” that allowed us to act like a dumb terminal to interact with mainframes and to act like a PC (with word processing, spreadsheets, etc.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

We recently ran into Chris Tragos , one of the co-founders of Jetpack (www.jetpack.net), provider of an online ad platform. Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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HTML5 Games Company Goko Launches and Raises $8M in Series A Funding

Tech Zulu Event

Goko wants to work with developers to across the world to reinvent the popular HTML board and card games. The Goko platform allows games to be built and distributed by developers either on their own or partnering with Goko due to its many licenses.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. Was it difficult from shifting from an agency to becoming a platform developer? HTML will get you modern browsers, but won't work on old browsers. We've figured out how to take the banner into 2016 and beyond.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Platform – are there pre-existing technical platform decisions that must be considered? If so, are specific software development processes necessary? Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? What about reporting and moderation?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Platform – are there pre-existing technical platform decisions that must be considered? If so, are specific software development processes necessary? Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? What about reporting and moderation?

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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This runs on a number of platforms? Rahul Sonnad: It runs on iPhone, Google Android, and will be running on a netbook with a major OEM this April, and in the near future you'd expect it to run on HTML alone. Once I had that, it was clear to me that putting some software linking that with the Internet would be very powerful.