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Burn Baby Burn: Is Traditional Licensing of Content Joining the Business Models Torched by New Technology and the Web

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Thursday, October 22, 2009 -- Burn Baby Burn: Is Traditional Licensing of Content Joining the Business Models Torched by New Technology and the Web? What You Need to Know About the New Growth After the Firestorm. Linux, Chang v. Virgin Mobile, and Jacobsen v.

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Some common themes from the discussion: Know Where You Are Going Before you can possibly make a choice around language and framework you need to ask all the important questions that are talked about in Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything and Startup CTO or Developer.

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Peering Into The Mobile Games Future With Josh Hartwell of Mobile Deluxe

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I had been a developer, working at a software publisher as a software developer working on consule games, and wanted to get back into publishing. It's actually been beneficial for us, and enabled us to get lots of features we were working on for BREW and Java, and get those more easily in iOS and Android.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Now up: Craig Ogg Co-Founder Freshly Grated Software former VP of R&D, Stamps.com Have had to make choices about platforms many times.

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Mimiboard Replacing Noticeboards in Africa | Interview with Johan Nel Founder

Tech Zulu Event

version notice boards are disrupting publishing and news content aggregation in Africa, influencing even how media houses on the continent relay news. ” On Umuntu Media’s portal , the firm says, “Africa has over a billion people but with just one registered domain per 10,000 people, it is a continent crying out for local content. .”

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

socalTECH

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. Whereas lots of companies allow you to upload content, we've got deep integration to those sites, including bidirectional publishing of content.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. .