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MySpace Launches Developer Challenge

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Los Angeles-based social networking site is looking to court developers with the launch of a development contest, the MySpace Developer Challenge , the firm said recently. Judges on the contest include Mike Jones, COO of MySpace; angel investor Ron Conway; Google's David Glazer; and blogger Robert Scoble.

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Ninja Metrics: Apply Predictive Analytics To Makes Games More Profitable

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In the world of online, mobile, and social games, there are now petabytes of data being collected by companies on what users are doing in those games--and trying to make sense of all that information. It''s a very successful research team, with over eighty peer-reviewed articles we''ve published. READ MORE>>.

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Frank Gehry to Build 420,000sq ft Campus as New Facebook HQ

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One Giant 420,000-Square-Foot Room for Code. The social networking giant has not disclosed the amount it has set aside for the 420,000-square-foot building at its Menlo Park, California campus or how much Frank Gehry is cashing in on this deal. However according to Mark working with Frank Gehry will actually save Facebook money.

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Ninja Metrics: Applying Predictive Analytics To Make Games More Profitable

socalTECH

In the world of online, mobile, and social games, there are now petabytes of data being collected by companies on what users are doing in those games--and trying to make sense of all that information. It''s a very successful research team, with over eighty peer-reviewed articles we''ve published. READ MORE>>.

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Ninja Metrics: Applying Predictive Analytics To Makes Games More Profitable

socalTECH

In the world of online, mobile, and social games, there are now petabytes of data being collected by companies on what users are doing in those games--and trying to make sense of all that information. It''s a very successful research team, with over eighty peer-reviewed articles we''ve published. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Jody Sherman, CEO of EcoMom

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Last week, Los Angeles-based EcoMom (www.ecomom.com) launched its "green" parenting site, with backing from Dave McClure. For lack of a better word, it's really social shopping--not in the way of using social networking to drive sales, but because moms are social, to allow them to share information regularly online.

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Interview with Idris Manley, NativeTung

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One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. We've created bi-directional, and real-time links between a web site and translation software. It also supports blogs.

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