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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

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Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication? Platform Are there pre-existing technical platform decisions that must be considered? Which devices will you test on specifically? If so, will you also have your own account system?

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

TechCrunch LA

Google today announced that it has partnered with Sony Pictures Imageworks , Sony’s visual effects and animation studio, to launch OpenCue , an open source render manager. Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform.

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Google Cloud will launch its Los Angeles region in July

TechCrunch LA

It’s no secret that Google has long planned to open a cloud region in Los Angeles. But as Google announced today , the new Los Angeles cloud region will go live in July, making it the company’s fifth region in the U.S. That’s not what Google is focusing on today, though. West Coast was in the works, after all.

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Frameworks Round 4

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We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. You can filter by classification (full-stack, micro-framework, or platform); language; platform; front-end server; database server; ORM classification; and implementation approach.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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Why AltaVista Failed To Become as Successful as Google. Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. So, they built an auction system, a self-service platform, and an ad-server from scratch. How Quigo Went Head-to-Head With Google.

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Aclima sucks in $24M to scale its air quality mapping platform

TechCrunch LA

Aclima , a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps.

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