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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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In its simplest terms, we install OpenStack, plus two years of IP that we''ve developed here at MetaCloud, onto our client''s server, at their data center. Steve Curry: I had been at Yahoo managing their storage operations. There''s more engineering talent in Southern California than most places in the world.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

We spoke with Jim Franklin , the firm's CEO, to hear more about how the company went from an accelerator startup at TechStars just a few years ago, to now more than 100 employees spread across offices in Boulder; Colorado, Anaheim, California; Frankfurt; London, and elsewhere, to tackle the problems of transactional email. What is Sendgrid?

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, He is a former chairman of the Business Software Alliance, and currently is Chair of the LA Chapter of the Technology Council of Southern California. LAUNCH.com, and The Improv Comedy Clubs.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! He began his career as a media, entertainment and IP attorney. Csathy was President and Chief Operating Officer of MusicMatch, Inc., where he structured and closed industry-first music licensing agreements and drove the company’s successful partner-focused distribution and marketing strategy.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

ThingFetcher sometimes requests a (shortened) URI 30 times per second, from different IPs. A method to verify the bot All IP addresses used by a bot should resolve to server names having a unique pattern. For example Googlebot comes only from servers named "crawl" + "-" + replace($IP, ".", "-") + ".googlebot.com"

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

While handling bots, you should detect search engine crawlers, too: /* lookup your crawler IP database to populate $isCrawler; then, if the IP wasnt identified as search engine crawler: */ if ($isCrawler !== from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 Other rogue bots identify themselves by IP addy, user agent, and/or referrer.

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