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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

socalTECH

However, Egg Baby--the title from newly funded Nix Hydra (www.nixhydra.com)--seems to have cracked the code for how to get new, young, female consumers to become game players. So, we started to learn some basic HTML and ActionScript, and put together a prototype, which helped us raise our first round of angel funding.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

socalTECH

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. HTML will get you modern browsers, but won't work on old browsers.

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What to Expect from Trending Web Design in 2016

Tech Zulu Event

The changes are usually due to improvements in previous designs to suit current tastes and preferences. Creativity thrives on a blend of several ideas to propose solutions and convey emotions, creative fields like fashion and graphic designs always find its way to web design and vice versa. Domination of material design.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. The pure delays due to admin if I would have had 3-4 pig farmers would have killed me. I get that.

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

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Don’t Stop Believing. The Present Era.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. Twitter was such a great idea with so much promise. Sad but true.