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Cisco to Pay $660M for Luxtera, Maker of Advanced Data Center Chips

Xconomy

Cisco has agreed to pay $660 million for Luxtera, a Caltech spinout that makes optical chips for data centers. The semiconductor company, founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, CA, a San Diego suburb. David Goeckeler, executive vice president and. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. My views are pretty well known. I hate Silicon Whatever.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

Bushnell is currently co-founder and chief game designer for Anti-Aging Games. Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA’s Department of Neurosurgery, and NYUMoran is interested in attention, emotions regulations, and dreams. Together with two doctorate scientists, he is currently working on games designed to stimulate the brain.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Whether they originate in IM, message board trheads, mail lists or blog posts - conversations can be brought together, made re-enrant and be enhanced with media. Everything else is closed.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.