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Some Thoughts on Twitter as a Micro-Blogging Tool

Both Sides of the Table

1/ Twitter started off positioned as a micro-blogging platform but in the end became more of an RSS reader. 5/ Twitter doesn’t support Tweetstorms so the community developed the norm of responding to your own Tweetstorms to create a single thread. I faced the wrath of the community. Mark Suster (@msuster) May 29, 2015.

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WebPurify Adds Tool To Detect Profanity In Images, Memes

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Irvine-based content moderation software developer WebPurify says it has enhanced its tools with a new tool, which allows its users to automatically detect text in memes and other images in blogs, forums, social media apps, children's sites, in-game chats, and more.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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HipGeo Launches Updated iPhone Travel Blogging App

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Fullerton-based HipGeo , the location tracking and social sharing software developer headed by Rich Rygg, has launched a new iPhone app, looking to help users track, document, and share their travels.

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. what format would you and the developer want that in? Conversations with a technical advisors or possible developers should be iterative. He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy.

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Element Biosciences Lands $15M to Develop New Genetic Analysis Tools

Xconomy

Now a former director from the company is leading a startup that has raised $15 million to develop new genome sequencing tools. Most of the genetic analysis done today is performed on machines made by Illumina, the DNA sequencing giant.

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Confident Technologies Unveils CAPTCHA Tool

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San Diego-based Confident Technologies , the new startup which is using image authentication technology originally developed by Vidoop, has rolled out its image-based CAPTCHA tools, the firm said this week.

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