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Divshot Sets Up Shop In Los Angeles

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According to Silicon Prairie News, the founders of DivShot, Michael Bligh and Jake Johnson, jumped at the chance to become part of the Los Angeles technology community after winning first place at the Crowdstart LA pitch competition in July. READ MORE>>.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry.

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Facebook for iOS Updated | Focused on Speed

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Facebook has done away with the old slow HTML 5 iOS app, introducing a new app which the Facebook says is twice as fast to the glory of its users on iPhone and iPad. According to Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO on his Facebook wall he says , “We just released a new Facebook app for iPhone and iPad and it’s a lot faster.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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Before that, she was a contributing editor for Electronic News, the semiconductor industry trade newsletter. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. Software Engineer, Back End – Games.com Games.com Sr. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Zuckerberg Interview. Detroit, MI.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

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Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software. Participants were setup and encouraged to use open source projects such as Apache, MySQL, Hbase, Cassandra, Ngnix, Erlang, and more. Development languages varied from team to team.

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

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features.

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

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. So what changed that ushered in the new era that was officially dubbed Web 2.0? Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: