TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. The results web site now includes a "framework overhead" chart inspired by comments from Hacker News user goodwink.

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Framework Software Review Technical Review EC2 521

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

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. What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? What's the User Interface Beyond the Web Site ?

Software Development 292

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2013

The people search site said the new options make it easier for business and nonprofit users to search for people for their own purposes; for example, for business users to find new customers, and for nonprofits to find new donors. READ MORE>>. software people redesign nonprofit business search spokeo'

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We don’t know just how often this occurs, but judging from the calls we get there are lots of anecdotal examples. These are applications that, for example, expect to see large data or complex algorithmic work from day one. Examples would be intranet or special-purpose B2B applications. So, why does this happen?

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Web Technical Advisors Framework Technical Review 330

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

For example, Excel was able to read files from Lotus, and was able to save the file without losing any information. For example, stackoverflow developers use the product every day, and they can’t help but interract with their uers. Jeff Atwood is the person responsible for product and user experience across all of their sites.

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Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

I have talked with people in the industry who tell me that mobile movie sites convert ticket sales much higher than desktop websites. BUT … I’ve talked to a number of eCommerce sites that also report much higher conversion rates than standard web. They are limited in size. In some senses this might seem like a disadvantage.

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Web Mobile Startup Software Review 334

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We're looking at things from a lot of different sites, and using big data to process them. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. That lets us compare and contrast users across individual sites, and help rank the talent pool accordingly, and rank them subjectively.

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Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. The way our business model works, is, for example, if you're a. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. So, buyers will come to our site, which has all of these beautiful images from all.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2011

Johnson, announced a move to allow other sites to host and show content via a new Lunch Network effort. Most importantly, it now gives all of their users and readers to not only read content on the site, but they can engage, interact, and create content. Today, Lunch.com (www.lunch.com), the startup headed by J.R.

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Content Software Review Technical Review Sites 242

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2010

This morning's interview is with Alon Goren , co-founder and President of Los Angeles-based Invested.in , an online site which allows users to run fundraisers for their projects. You publish it, and the whole thing is managed on our site where you've created a fundraising campaign. What sort of projects are people using your site for?

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Sites Startup Invest SoCalTech 237

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Demand Media recently acquired subscriptoin-based video workshop and instruction site Creativebug. Stronger is an offshoot of Demand Media''s LIVESTRONG.COM site. The new service is reminiscent of fellow Los Angeles fitness subscription site FitOrbit, which has been combining personal training with online tracking tools.

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Demand Media Training Santa Monica 187

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

Example What do I mean? From there, you will generally see a pop-up dialog similar to the following (this one is from CitySearch): Once you click Connect, the original site now knows that I’m Tony Karrer from Facebook and the various demographic and friend information from Facebook. You come back to a site you’ve used before.

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Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Mov, launched just a few weeks ago, is more than a rebranded eBay or NBA auction site. For example, Pat Connaughton’s Jersey made $2,164 on Mov versus $560 on the NBA auction site. “We send it as is,” he said. “We We want to make it a really special experience for the fans.”.

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Startup Los Angeles Platform Commerce 306

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Richard coincidentally cites Mike Yavondite’s Qiigo as an example; Mike was a guest on TWIVC later that day. He is starting to see this occur in sites that are verticalizing content. An example is Metacafe, a Highland Capital portfolio company. Initially it was a UGC site that competed with sites like YouTube and Veoh.

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Capital Venture Capital Veoh Startup 265

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites.

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Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 339

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the framework''s data mapping code. For example, we used Sequelize for the JavaScript MySQL tests.

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Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

For today's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Swagbucks (www.swagbucks.com), an online site which allows users to earn virtual currency in exchange for searching the Internet, as well as other activities. They'd promote the site to their constituents and supporters, to raise money for the company, and we'd share it back with them.

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Startup Sites Web Entertainment 266

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2012

We had been working with Fortune 5's, and had done really well in social media, creating micro sites and interactive landing pages, and have a really deep history in marketing. I thought to myself, there must be many people that had their ad delivered on mobile, but whose sites are not mobile ready yet.

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Mobile Startup Advertising Sites 249

TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Applying that solution to our job matching site made perfect sense. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future. That’s why we’re planning on building most of our sites this way in the future. Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence TechEmpower Tips 297

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2010

So they create a task list of all the marketing activities an organization can do: press releases, web site updates, customer case studies, blog posts, daily Tweets, Facebook fan page, attending conferences, etc. Let me give you an example. You have a marketing department with three people.

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Startup Press Development Team Review SEM 323

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. ” Here are some examples: 1. It’s just like my book example. Online marketing uses techniques for driving promotion and place. ” Me?

Marketing 379

Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

For example, you may have content management and community needs that closely align with Drupal. For example, you might choose Sencha if you are building apps that run natively on several platforms (e.g., You may get 3x improved speed for roughly 10-20% of the effort of building your site. desktop, mobile, browser).

Framework 331

Framework Startup Java PHP 331

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Are you tired of booking that "luxury room" on your favorite vacation rental site, and finding it''s really a dump? What''s hovelstay.com, and how is it different than all the other vacation rental sites out there? Michael Womack: We are creating a site that has the adventurous and budget traveler in mind.

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Sites Startup Customer Custom 213

Berkonomics

AUGUST 28, 2014

But an increasing amount is now coming from web sites and YouTube videos created by companies looking for an edge in their marketing efforts. Dave’s Top Ten Trends workshop promo video Check this example by clicking on the link to the left – from my www.berkus.com site. Finally, content does not last forever.

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Netflix Sites Content Entertainment 166

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

In an example of the rising interest of big advertisers in mobile social sharing site Instagram , auto maker BMW is dangling the chance to be the official BMW Instagram photographer to Instagram users who snap and post photos of local BMWs.

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Orange County SoCal Southern California Social Media 185

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

An example is one we recently launched with Virgin Mobile and Katy Perry, where we allow people to volunteer to help youth homelessness, track that with our patent-pending cause tracking and rewards systems, and where those volunteers can get tickets to a concert. That's on the cause marketing side of things.

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Causecast Startup Content Education 222

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

It is no secret that Pinterest and other social commerce sites have begun to dial in the commerce equation. These sites (so far) have managed to balance facilitating product discovery and purchase capabilities with users'' desires to entertain and educate themselves without feeling like they are in a marketplace.

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Entrepreneur Commerce Sites Social Network 210

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Let's take a look at some of the many ways businesses can benefit from these new models to streamline operations and deliver faster and more accurate results.We’ll begin by looking at some real-world examples and then we’ll dive into more details of how these improved search capabilities can enhance your business.

Generative AI 348

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Tool Knowledge Base 348

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2014

The online coupon search industry is very crowded, with dozens of sites, players large and small, and is a very confusing landscape for consumers. There''s a ton of coupon and deals sites. They do a Google search, and they''re presented with thousands of sites in the search results. Why are you different?

Internet Brands 257

Internet Brands Content Startup Sites 257

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

There's an awful lot of check-in sites out there. Why would someone want to use your site? For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. Since we started our free site last week, we've organically grown faster than we ever thought we would.

CTO Coach 223

CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

socalTECH

MAY 28, 2013

The way it works, is you go to our site, find the product through either search, a dropdown menu, or filters, and you can find the products you want. That gauge helps make sure the offers that consumers place are realistic, for example, not offering $200 for a $2000 Canon camera. It''s almost a lead generation process.

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Pricing Product Help Sales 273

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Web 238

Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

For example, ask yourself: “What is the inciting incident in The Godfather?” This one is tricky, because it doesn’t occur until 45 minutes into the film, when Vito Corleone is gunned down in the street. What is the inciting incident for your company? How can you get to it more quickly and with less capital?

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Invest Examples Networking Writing 237

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2012

Most recently, I was at MySpace, where I was the creative director for rebranding and for the new site. It was really great to pull together all of my interests in technology, fashion, and design, and create a really cool, unique site out of it. I have done everything from weaving to upholstery as a hobby. READ MORE>>.

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Userplane Startup Design Sites 182

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

For example, at an event, say at the Staples Center, of the 20,000 seats they might have four or five price groups. For example, at a concert, they sell the front row -- which is clearly worth more -- the same as the cost of the 50th row. But, what we've noticed, from activity on our site and sales--is it is getting very hot again.

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Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Activity 253

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2012

I like to refer to that as the ultimate brand fan page, or to take the example from the apparel industry, where I come from, a virtual look book for a brand. Does this look like a Facebook page, or is this a separate site? Jeremy Gocke: Fliptu is a separate site and community.

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Social Media Media Social Network Seed Funding 268