TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. We want this test to require repeated requests to an external service (MySQL or MongoDB, for example) so that we exercise the frameworks data mapping code. Web servers. Motivation. Mongoose 3.5.5.

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

SoCal CTO

MARCH 28, 2013

In Web Framework Benchmarks , there are some very interesting and surprising numbers around the performance of various web frameworks. However, startup founders who are building applications that have: Large Audiences - consumer facing Complex Processing - examples: Matching , Social Network Analysis, Compatibility Scoring, etc.

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Framework Web PHP EC2 175

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2021

This has been a long-time dream of Tim Berners-Lee , the man who (really) invented the World Wide Web. He calls his dream the ‘ Semantic Web ’ (or Web 3.0), meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Semantic Web will act more like a personal assistant than a search engine.

Web 152

Web Entrepreneur Software Review Google 152

TechEmpower

MAY 2, 2013

We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. For example, in some cases a framework is tested both with and without its ORM (“full ORM” versus “Raw”). When viewing the data tables, you will notice that some frameworks show up more than once.

Framework 552

Framework PHP Template EC2 552

TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

We have posted Round 5 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. Note that the Windows configuration presently retains the Linux-hosted database server—only the web/application server is running Windows Server 2012. Please set Cookie::$salt." RC1 , Go 1.1

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Framework EC2 Web Writing 524

TechEmpower

APRIL 5, 2013

Last week, we posted the results of benchmarking several web application development and frameworks. For example: Making 100000 requests to [link]. Web servers. For example: play-scala ✓ Another update is planned for next week. The response was tremendous. We didn''t switch tools to improve the rps numbers, though.

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

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

Software Development Develop Development Startup 292

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

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? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

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? See Branchout an Example of Viral Spread Opportunity for Startups.

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Who are you on the web? It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. On the web each website wants you to log in to their website using a proprietary user name and password. Consider some simple examples. Historically you are your email address. That’s one form of identity.

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News Web Email Startup 324

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

However, I saw that the people building traditional products were still not familiar with the social web. For example, some of my biggest competitors--such as Flintstones vitamins--have been around for 40 years, have virtually no web presence, and a PageRank of 2. We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The firm said the new API makes it easier for web developers to incorporate location information and maps into their web sites. HipGeo said it is targeting such web applications as photo sharing and calendar sites; for example, using HipGeo's data to let photo users attach a location to photos they have taken based on a timestamp.

eHarmony 154

eHarmony Web Web Development Sites 154

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. For example, you can add $AAPL to separate the post from regular posts, which we pulled into our own search around that ticker. But, that wasn't why CBS bought WallStrip.

Ideas 248

Ideas Web Startup Content 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password). Here's a classic example that illustrates the issue - the sign-up page from Mahalo.

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Design Mahalo Social Network Email 225

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

For example, the most popular people born in Texas, the most popular people who are Geminis, the most popular people for each profession--like the most popular comedian or most popular country singer. I love the web and love Internet marketing. It''s much easier to monetize, than it is to drive traffic on the web and start a web site.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

That, combined with being early on the social web, was the nexus from where MomentFeed came about. Could you give an example of how a customer might use your service? Rob Reed: Starbucks seems to be a good example, though they are not a client.

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2011

The firm said it has launched a beta of its Factual Crosswalk API, which makes it easier to translate information about places into 3rd party APIs and websites. The company said the API converts Factual's own IDs into third party identifiers and URLs, and vice versa.

CitySearch 182

CitySearch Yahoo Los Angeles Google 182

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

If you want something to be shared virally on the web it has to be short.&#. It needs to have an interpersonal, human angle – Examples he gives, “mothers & daughters, traits in your boss you don’t like or the perfect drinks on your anniversary. I guess this video won’t go viral, then!

Buzzfeed 354

Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Examples might be a recommendation engine, search engine, matching engine or something with a complex interface. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. WordPress is pretty easy to hack.

Technical Review 339

Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 339

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today. Shane Bernstein: If you exist on the web, you exist.

Sites 240

Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Telesign provides authentication services for the largest web companies in the world. 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. We primarily use the telephone security method.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Web 238

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 30, 2011

They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I’m sure it probably resonants with how most of you read the web. The idea is that if I can serve you an ad for a function that you already need to perform on the web anyways – a captcha – with a brand message I can drive recall.

Advertising 352

Advertising Media Social Media Screening 352

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

The way our business model works, is, for example, if you're a. and photographer is an online web presence and an order fulfillment partner. AS I was working my engineering job, I got obsessed with programming and building a business for the web. building a web site for him. For example, we have a. the payroll.

Santa Monica 258

Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2011

The firm--whose open datasets are used to power location based services and other web services--said the dataset includes over 55 million entries, providing information such as hours, cuisine, meal types, and more on those locations. The firm said that the data also includes two new countries, China and Canada. READ MORE>>.

Web 149

Web Google Examples Los Angeles 149

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

Those brands created reward portals around Internet search, so, for example, you might go to the New York Giants site, search through their branded portal, and you would earn points, which they could redeem for swag from the team. Through that, it evolved into a rewards program, and instead of charities, we started bringing it out to brands.

Startup 266

Startup Sites Web Entertainment 266

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Examples of that are if you're looking for a credit card, looking for antivirus software, or summer camp for the kids, or colleges. For example, when you go to make a decision on what ski resort to visit, you've got to determine what are the most important factors. It's really all the things you need that are considered purchases.

Startup 210

Startup Advertising Examples Santa Barbara 210

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Because he was particularly attracted to the idea of positioning Quigo in the business of helping retailers with search, Quigo started building sophisticated technology for applied semantics stuff with web pages. So, what Quigo would do is analyze a web page for Overture and tell them what they thought it was about. We can do better.

Google 303

Google Startup Advertising Acquisition 303

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2014

That''s just an example of the kind of investment which is needed to build out those new businesses. The app store is crowded, and the web is also crowded too. I think what yuo''re going to see, is that people will leverage those new domain names to express the brand of their service both through their native app or through the web.

Demand 231

Demand HTML Web Media 231

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2012

In that network, we bring in content from all over the web. Unlike anywhere else on the web, you can then respond directly when you see that comment. For example, quotes are quite expensive. Vinny Jindal: There are lots of examples of where someone says  I'm going to buy this stock here, and sell at this price.

Social Network 239

Social Network Startup Networking Content 239

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2014

I was recently at the Le Web conference in Paris where Travis Kalanick, the Cofounder and CEO of Uber was one of the speakers. Uber is one of the best examples of how disintermediation can transform industries in which unions, lobbyists, regulation, and bureaucracy have created obstacles to progress, openness, and competitiveness.

Southern California 149

Southern California High Tech Conference Competition 149

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

How is the changing demographic of web visitors changing how local companies operate? Domeyer recently told us how mobile visitors to the web are dramatically changing how Oversee looks at the market, and are pushing the firm to invest more in technology to adapt to mobile users. We're very big in the Agile framework.

Mobile 224

Mobile CTO Hire CPC Web 224

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

AOL Instant Messenger for example; it could have been Twitter. This potential merger is another example of media companies getting together in what seems like a monopolistic way that still might find itself as prey for market innovation of the future; like Hulu for example. Netflix is a great example.

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Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

That would also give them one, unified platform for Facebook on the web, mobile tablet platforms, and so on, so that every time they release a new version of their platform it will work on every mobile phone, whether that was Android, Windows, or Blackberry. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

Activision 217

Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

Startup 233

Startup Tips Web Platform 233

socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2013

Chromatik has developed web and iPad applications which let musicians upload, record, annotate, and share their sheet music; record a performance; give feedback to other musicians; and much more. The firm's products are an example of what applying technology, and smartphones and tablets, can do for music education.

Southern California 254

Southern California Startup Sherman Oaks Venice 254