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Club Caveman Takes To Kickstarter To Bring App To Life

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A mobile app new project by a local, Los Angeles team has taken to Kickstarter to help fund its efforts to create an animated, interactive caveman for your iPhone and iPad. The team includes entertainment and tech vets who have worked on computer games from Activision, animation from Dreamworks and Disney, and who have worked at Yahoo!

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Burn This Number After Calling: Greg Cohn on Burner

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Where'd the idea come from? The idea was that prominent people who might have a small following might post their availability to chat for 20, 40, or 60 minutes to Twitter of Facebook. So, we came that idea, and started working for six months polishing it up as its own product. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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UCLA DEV Contest Proves Grand Ideas & Teamwork are Essential to LA Tech

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They attended other DEV events such as the AT&T Aspire Mobile App Hack-a-thon hosted in LA to spread the word, created an event page and began registration through Eventbrite as early as September of 2012. 1 2 3 ► The post UCLA DEV Contest Proves Grand Ideas & Teamwork are Essential to LA Tech appeared first on TechZulu.

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

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For the first time in history content producers can build a direct relationship with views through subscribers, email addresses and mobile phone number. Hello, Yahoo!?! (I I talked to an ex Yahoo! And you still have no idea if you will accidentally become Pinterest or if your $41 million will produce a Waterworld.

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Interview with Dave Waldman, Bccthis

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Dave told us about how and why he and his co-founders--both previously executives at Twistbox--decided to start their own startup, specifically outside of the mobile industry, and a bit about the product. We've been steeped in mobile content development and publishing. So what's the idea behind Bccthis?

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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I think by now we all sort of assume that social is pervasive in everything you do in the way that location-aware is assumed in all mobile apps. Your new idea won’t resonate with people the way “check-ins&# does because they’ve never heard of it by definition. In my view almost all ideas are derivative.

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