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TrueCar Links Into Auto Websites

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing spinout of Zag Automotive, disclosed Wednesday that the firm has inked distribution deals with five automotive websites. According to TrueCar, it will provide its price reports on Pricequotes.com , Carbuyingtips.com , Carzen.com , Carpricesecrets.com , and Cardevotion.com.

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

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To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. I don''t think the HTML browser is going to change.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Web browser – even a functional computer with an OS isn’t enough to access most Google services. Google’s vision is the most ambitious of its peers.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

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I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. Foreign Service. Like a lot of service professionals. Your Social Media for Service Professionals presentation pushed me over the top. It has been fun to get to know her again.

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AT&T and American Airlines | The SXSW Party & Hackathon Recap

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Technologies used: MySQL Back End and APNS Push Services. You get a list or map of hotels that you can filter by price and rating. is the travel booking service that thinks like you, not like the hotelier. This cloud service layer is utilized by the iPhone App and the iPad App. Technologies used: NodeJS and MongoDB.

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

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. The Past (1985-2002).

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. I provided a short reading list in the Appendix if you want to read directly about the history of money.

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