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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to. And here's where you can find more events: SoCalTech Calendar – A great aggregation of events around Southern California that has been pulled together for years by Ben Kuo. They put on great events.

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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. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech. Early on in college, we built a product called Blog Hoster, which allowed you to create white label blogs.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77 blog comments powered by Disqus. Blog Software. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. MYTH 5: The SoCal crowd is better looking. Okay, so they got this one right. Advertise on VentureBeat. most popular.