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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

We recently ran into Chris Tragos , one of the co-founders of Jetpack (www.jetpack.net), provider of an online ad platform. Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited. Over time brands will realize that marketing into a closed system isn’t good for their long-term customer relationships.

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

socalTECH

That business includes our main registrar platform, which supports 20,000 resellers around the world, and also includes such acquisition as we''ve done such as name.com, domain auctions with Namejet, and a bunch of other activities. We''re also partnering with companies like Donuts to provide a platform to host their registry.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? What’s their specific need / pain? Tell me about the business.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? What’s their specific need / pain? Tell me about the business.

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What is a Content Delivery Network and What Types of Businesses Should Leverage It?

Southern California Edison Blog

A content delivery network (CDN) is a network of edge servers that accelerate website speed and content delivery by hosting content physically closer to customers via points of presence (PoP). For video hosting platforms, people expect their content to load quickly without hiccups or technical issues so they can enjoy what they want to watch.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

Jonah was working on his masters thesis and he asked Nike to produce a customized shoe with the word “Sweatshop” on it. In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?” Video is the new HTML.”

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