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Mobile Apps: The New Direct-To-Consumer Channel

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- Mobile Apps: The New Direct-To-Consumer Channel. Mobile Apps enable businesses to relate to customers one-to-one. Customers can stream your companys content, shop for goods, search for local products and services, and receive personalized serviceall from their mobile phones.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

Los Angeles has a strategic asset : content creation skills – In order for the Internet to go mainstream you first needed the infrastructure to support it from networking equipment (Cisco, Juniper) to databases (Oracle) to search (Google) and more recently mobile devices (Apple). Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Everybody knows about the leaked memo of AOL’s Tim Armstrong saying he wants to up his content from 4% video to 70% video. That sets LA & NY up nicely for a number of emerging content creation industries. LA is producing content at scale.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

The state-of-the-art today when it comes to the social computing environments that surround us now — in our browsers, mobile devices, and elsewhere — underscore how much more we have left to do to make these new modes of digital conversation and discourse become mature, efficient, safe, and truly useful.

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