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RightScale Rolls Out Grid Computing Product

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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He’s also candid, humble and helpful. It’s a very product that allows you to do visual search of eBay, ETSY, Match.com, AllRecipes and several others sites. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. Current round: $8.1mm in Series C by S3 Ventures (lead), Adams Capital Mgmt, Triangle Peak Partners.

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Interview with Gil Elbaz, Factual

socalTECH

We see this as a community built on a trusted repository of structured data, something which ultimately helps everyone make decisions. How does this differ from the kind of data Amazon has said it will make available through services like S3? That became the underpinning of several products. Is this similar?

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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As a consultant for Comcast and co-founder of G4 Media, Scot helped bring the world of video games to television in 2002. Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands. Josh Yguado - President SGN. Over $5,000 In Giveaways!

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Innovation in the end is about creating products, but largely the federal government doesn't make products; it buys them. So it may be fair to posit that after most of the research and discovery happens, people in the government wonder why it takes so long – and costs so much – to get a prototype or a finished product.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Now I don’t get any.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

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Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. And Wikipedia is deflationary meaning it takes the costs of production to almost zero.

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