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MediaPass Gets $1.75M More

socalTECH

The startup's software uses JavaScript and other code to intercept traffic to existing blogs and web sites, and require premium signups to access full content. MediaPass is headed by Matthew Mitchell, and offers up software which allows online publishers to start charging for their content for users. READ 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.

Blogging 373
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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

Sure we still get excited and animated about a new JavaScript library, a new CSS trick, a new device, or a new data store. So even if that business doesn't exist as anything but a web site, we want them to avoid unnecessary technology risks. A site with a million users is much easier to manage today than it was in 2000.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur (3/11) – Ability to Pivot

Both Sides of the Table

Seemic (now a Twitter client) was originally a video blogging platform. They suddenly had Javascript on pages that covered 40 million unique users and they were coming up with innovative ad products that combated banner blindness. Twitter was an offshoot of Odeo, a website focused on sound and podcasting. Geni.com beget Yammer.

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SMCLA: Google Analytics Recap and Video

Tech Zulu Event

Set aside 5 minutes, get your cut and paste skills ready and prepare to collect analytics data via the 2 lines or so of JavaScript provided by Google with your account. Almost as important as what they do on your site is where they came from and how they got there. You need to have goals to measure against. Track your inbound traffic.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

SoCal Delicious

this is not the case, you wont be able to do anything mentioned here without bringing your site down. You need to be able to check your sites raw web logs. The "User Agent string" is just the name thatthe program accessing your site goes by. Go to the top web directory ofyour site, where your home page is located.

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

SoCal Delicious

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. The problem with most of the share badges out there is that they load a Javascript file from an external source which can take several seconds on a bad day.

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