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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices. Server and client in Java.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

socalTECH

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. The idea was to allow people to list and rank items, and use that to generate meaningful value as a recommendation engine.

Startup 195
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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

InfoChachkie

However, from my understanding you might actually be the largest consumer website using "semantic web" technology – can you explain how that works? “In If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down. I am looking for Java developers and database experts.

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Entrepreneurs Don’t “Noodle” They Do

Both Sides of the Table

Should you go with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or have your own servers hosted at RackSpace? Should you build in Ruby, Java or.NET? Is venture debt a good idea? Should you sign a 2-year lease or rent month-to-month? Should you hire an extra developer now or a business development resource?

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How Connectifier Is Applying Search Technology To Recruiting, With John Jersin

socalTECH

That's the idea behind Connectifier (www.connectifier.com), an Orange County-based startup led by John Jersin --whose founders and many of its employees have come from Google, Amazon, and other companies where search is a part of their DNA. What if searching for people to recruit to your company was as easy as running a search in Google?

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

Tech Zulu Event

Technologies used: google maps, jquery, java, and tomcat. Technologies used: node.js, web sockets. Java Web App built on the Spring Framework. Technologies used: Google Maps API, to help us give passengers an idea of their ETA according to distance/traffic. Travelbot.co Backed by a scalable mySQL.

Java 94
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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

We’ve had Wolfram|Alpha free on the web for years now. And as soon as we have an idea that we can formulate computationally, the point is that the language lets us express it, and then—thanks to 30 years of technology development—lets us as automatically as possible actually execute the idea.