Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

TechEmpower

APRIL 21, 2015

Much of the effort in the past year has been focused on improving the toolset, allowing contributors to create their own test and development environment with less effort and to optionally focus on just the frameworks or platforms of interest to them. Between Round 9 and Round 10, we saw an average of 7 commits per day.

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Framework EC2 TechEmpower Java 200

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2019

At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform. We have built an application services platform for vehicles, and our first customer was actually USAA. We had an advanced application development and innovation team.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Platform 113

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 2, 2012

I joined ranks with an Austin App developer, taking the role of Creative Director and setting up their design team and process. There was a distinct disconnect between apps developed by stand-alone companies, such as Gowalla or Path, versus what “work for hire” companies were producing. It simply makes more sense.

Design 94

Design Mobile Web Design Outsource Development 94

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago.

Social Media 113

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

I made sure that their thesis was in-stream (as opposed to being a side-bar advertisement like Google AdSense). Immediately after the acquisition we held meetings with all of the integrated CMS vendors and highlighted to them which bits we were going to make our core platform and which bits we weren’t planning to offer ourselves.

Acquisition 287

Acquisition Develop Development Conference 287

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

To gain some insight into the area, we spoke with Ian Swanson, one of the founders of Sometrics (www.sometrics.com), which develops software to gather information on social media and optimize advertising. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago.

Social Media 100

Social Media Advertising Social Network Userplane 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

It required content sites to develop totally new content. Everybody and their mothers are coming into my offices proclaiming that their developing the latest iPhone App. In the same year Salesforce.com launched a SaaS CRM platform to compete with Siebel. Enter Flash, which gave us a multimedia development environment.

Brentwood 326

Brentwood Mobile Google Web 326

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2010

Google was n-o-t-h-i-n-g! Yes, even Google has to make these tough decisions about where to allocate staff and money. This pissed off application developers because it became harder to find apps. person I’ve ever spoken to on the subject. &# We had such a great company. Everybody returned our calls.

Entrepreneur 330

Entrepreneur Yahoo Startup Technical Review 330