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Fifty years of the internet

TechCrunch LA

By December, 1969, there were only four nodes – UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, the University of California-Santa Barbara and the University of Utah. It sounds utopian, but in those early days, we enjoyed a wonderful culture of openness, collaboration, sharing, trust and ethics.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Demand Media. Demand Media consistently popped up near number one in the list of "companies to work for" from our readers. Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. The now-public. Despite the number of employees, recruiters also cited.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors and Advertisers!

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venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. to San Diego.

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Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs

socalTECH

Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. Because of the higher demand there, and because there were not a whole lot of providers, plus our good connections in Japan, we started there.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

InfoChachkie

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. You can manage across AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Eucalyptus, for instance.”. As Marten notes, “The basic need that they all have is unpredictable and variable workloads.

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Zingle Raises $3M to Expand and Improve Messaging App Technology

Xconomy

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Blakely said he also intends to add sales and marketing resources to take advantage of increasing demand from businesses for Zingle’s messaging technology.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. Through the use of social networking, we have sold out all 150 spots available for this event two weeks before the date and recently added another 50 to accommodate the demand. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! I love Namechk.com for this.