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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

We build web and mobile applications, and we've been doing so for a little over fifteen years. Sure we still get excited and animated about a new JavaScript library, a new CSS trick, a new device, or a new data store. To our delight, technology has evolved and improved in many ways over that time.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

socalTECH

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

Think about how many images are on the web. Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. News, Gannett, and Tribune. “We

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Interview with William Chow, Mobophiles

socalTECH

William Chow: What Mobophiles has developed is software that solves the two biggest problems the web space right now, which is slow page load--waiting on the web--and no offline access, which is if you don't have connectivity on the web. It's completely transparent to the web sites we are supporting.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software. There were a lot of the projects that had the possibility of being the starting point for real enterprise solutions that the business world is lacking. Teams: CoderTie.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

We’ve had Wolfram|Alpha free on the web for years now. Yes, there’s certainly a need for some number of software engineers in the world who can write low-level programs in languages like C++ or Java or JavaScript—and can handle the details of loops and declarations. Plain English doesn’t work well for these.