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Phonevite Lands In LA

socalTECH

Both Nahm and Kim were at voice-over-IP firm Dialpad, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2005. The firm, which offers both free and premium mass notification systems, was started in San Jose in 2007 by Nahm and co-founder Kalvin Kim.

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De-risk Your Startup By Doing It Again: The Joy Of Getting The Band Back Together

InfoChachkie

Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO. Alma mater, Overture: sold to Yahoo. IP Risk – The closer the Serial Team’s new adVenture is to their prior successes, the greater the risk that they may be accused of infringing on their former company’s intellectual property (IP). The Upside.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs. He was raised and educated in London.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com"

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! No Dave S. =