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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007). Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world.

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How to Give Your Startup Idea a Reality Check

Startup Professionals Musings

What if you could go to a web site and find all the recipes you could make today, with just the ingredients you already have in your kitchen? No patents filed. Maybe the solution hasn’t yet been commercialized, but a patent has been submitted by someone else, putting your idea in jeopardy. Real customer need.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007.

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Interview with Jose daVeiga, KlickSports

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Los Angeles-based KlickSports (www.klicksports.com) recently rolled out the firm's live sports prediction web site and game, looking to harness the enthusiasm of sports fans for their favorite sports and teams. In 2007, we did five bowl team venues the same way. What's the idea behind Klicksports?

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

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This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. You don’t need all the balls and whistles (like stats) overloading most scripts available on the Web.

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