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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Focusing on the metrics that ultimately drive the business, often the bottom line, has provided a reality check, a counter-weight to the desire to consume all new technologies.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

What's the idea behind the service, and what can do with it? The concept is, it's an application that runs inside of Facebook, and for consumers, it gives you an alternative view of your timeline. They had been recommended as a preferred provider for Facebook application developers, but it didn't work.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 16

TechEmpower

Not just in measured results per second (several metric crap tonne), but in number of tests measured (~1830), number of framework permutations tested (~464), number of languages included (26), and total execution time of the test suite (67 hours, or 241 billion microseconds to make that sound properly enormous). It's lost in the noise.

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Interview with Ian Swanson, Sometrics

socalTECH

What's the idea behind Sometrics? The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. So who is using your software?

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Interview with Sometrics, Ian Swanson

socalTECH

What's the idea behind Sometrics? The majority of them are social application developers, who have social applications on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, and Hi5, either using the Facebook API or OpenSocial. The firm has also received investments from Greycroft Partners and AT&T. So who is using your software?

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. A decade ago the idea of even watching video online would have been laughable. THAT is disruption.