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

socalTECH

Where do you fit into the mobile ad market? All of digital advertising today uses Flash as a foundation technology. What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant.

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Not Betting on Flash

SoCal CTO

We need to deliver on mobile devices in the future. Do we include Flex or Flash as a delivery technology? Instead I'm betting on HTML/JavaScript. Reality is that we need that now, but at least we don't need to specifically design for it for now. That's my bet. I'm not betting that Flash is dead in five years.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems. And generally, it seemed pretty compelling for a developer. Not really.

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Girls Who Code Celebrates Graduates of First LA Summer Immersion Program

Tech.Co

The course embeds classrooms in technology companies and universities, and the girls learn everything from robotics to mobile development to computer languages such as HTML and CSS. In addition to learning these skills, they also gain exposure to the tech industry and receive mentorship from women working in technology.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Learn something new - most programmers love learning new technologies or solving new kinds of problems. And generally, it seemed pretty compelling for a developer. Not really.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

Tragos is a veteran of technology industry here, having come from Spin Media (formerly, Buzznet) with his two other co-founders. Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. What is Jetpack, and what do you do?

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