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Divshot Sets Up Shop In Los Angeles

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In the case of Divshot , a developer of user interface development tools for web apps, it was a chance to join Los Angeles accelerator Launchpad LA. Divshot develops software which provides a drag-and-drop interface to create web apps, which can then export HTML and CSS code for use by software developers.

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SweetLabs Awards $50K To App Developers

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San Diego-based SweetLabs , the developer of the Pokki desktop app software, reported Wednesday that it has awarded $50,000 in its Pokki Challenge, a contest for encouraging developers to create desktop applications using HTML5. SweetLabs reported it received 60 apps over the six week challenge, which are now available on its site.

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Realtime Raises $100M, Opens Office In Santa Monica

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Realtime , a startup developing technology to help power real-time web applications, said today that it has raised $100M, launched in the U.S., The firm, which was previously known as Internet Business Technologies, said that it has developed a language, xRTML, that helps convert existing, static HTML into real-time, live web applications.

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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So, we started to learn some basic HTML and ActionScript, and put together a prototype, which helped us raise our first round of angel funding. This could be a huge essay, but there are aspects to gaming like complexity of choice and direct character interaction that have been largely ignored by most mobile game developers.

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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

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Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. Once Larry and Sergey developed search’s secret sauce, PageRank, they backwards-integrated into server-side software technologies to power and scale search. Search is just another web application. The post Why Google Fiber?

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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.” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. We respect your anonymity. Upcoming Events.

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

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.