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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

socalTECH

It's built on a gaming platform, and is a way for users to create their own content and portions of that world. Brian McKelvey: I'd been looking around at all the social gaming platforms and virtual worlds online, such as Second Life, Farmville, and other apps on the Apple App Store for inspiration. How did the firm come about?

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. We aim to know the upper bound being set on an applications performance per unit of hardware by each platform and framework.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Authors'' Note: We''re using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. With the content type set to application/json. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests.

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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. For example, you may have content management and community needs that closely align with Drupal.

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CHNL – Social Network For All | Interview With John Wander, Co-founder & CEO

Tech Zulu Event

Inspired by the vast amounts of data from videos, photos, music, websites and blogs shared by the many friends and people they follow online and seeing how much time it takes to check all the content across many platforms, friends set out to come up with a solution and CHNL was born. the need for human organized content- curation.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

socalTECH

We've instead taken those comments and turned them into scores and a rating platform. The software works on a variety of platforms, including Wordpress, Blogger, Joomla, Drupal, Tumblr, Moveable Type, and we also have a Javascript universal code option, which is raw code you can drop into any template you might be using.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

We've applied mathematical logic to give each piece of content a score, which tells you how vibrant that piece of content is, based on likes, comments, and shares. From there, because you can drill down on a week, month, and year basis, you can look and say--at any time, what top 5 pieces of content are interesting?