SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I continually face the challenge of designing and building registration / sign-up pages on a wide variety of different web sites and mobile applications. Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password). That post looked at when and why you would use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks?

Develop 396

Develop Development Startup SEO 396

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

How concerned are we about design for mobile? Native mobile apps? Obviously, it's far simpler to aim for browser-based systems and basically aim your design to work okay on mobile devices with some additional effort on the part of the user. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The search engine works both on the web as well as through mobile apps, initially on iOS. The search engine revolves around hashtag "boards" which can be embedded into other sites or social networking pages. hashatit search engine hashtag social media instagram facebook pinterest' READ MORE>>.

Social Media 159

Social Media Social Network Web Los Angeles 159

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

The accelerator is among a number that have emerged in Los Angeles in the past year or so; StartEngine specifically has been focusing on startups targeting consumers, small to medium sized businesses, and web infrastructure. READ MORE>>.

Santa Monica 178

Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Los Angeles-based BakeSpace.com , the online social networking and recipe site, has a new product for you. According to the firm, its new, Cookbook Cafe product allows grassroots cookbook authors to create, market, and sell their very own cookbooks for the iPad, as well as the web.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web.

Venture Capital 347

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I wanted a smart NorCal investor who had done more mobile investments than I had and Jon Callaghan had very relevant relationships & experience. I am on record as saying that my opinion is that Web 2.0 I said as much in my post about The Future of Social Networking. “And importantly Web 2.0 I still do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2011

For some reason, I haven’t heard much about the next generation of the Internet ( Web 3.0 ) lately, which probably means it isn’t happening as fast as everyone predicted. I suspect the real challenge is not the semantic web technology , but new attractive business models from smart entrepreneurs. Mobile smart phones.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2009

I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. I got to thinking more broadly about social networks and the real-time web. Facebook has much more value to me as a networking tool. On LinkedIn we rarely communicate with each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. The success of the iPhone – The success of the iPhone and more importantly the App Store has led to an increase in early-stage VC fundings that mirror the Web 2.0

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2010

Can you believe all the talk these days about Web 3.0? I’ve been doing some research to assess how much of it is reality, since I have to admit that I seem to have missed the clues to the transition to Web 2.0, After some work, I’m still convinced that much of the Web 3.0 Mobile smart phones. are appearing. are appearing.

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Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Search will remain big but stream is an increasing method of discovering information and therefore driving web traffic. Internet consumption is obviously growing massively on mobile devices. But we’re only in the first inning of mobile advertising.

Advertising 284

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms. Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them. At SGN we've seen steady revenue growth and we are a profitable company. Or Tapes and CDs?

Technical Review 223

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. Third party products are used appropriately.

Technical Review 338

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. SketchAR : an augmented reality drawing app with social tie-ins. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop.

Invest 237

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

That would also give them one, unified platform for Facebook on the web, mobile tablet platforms, and so on, so that every time they release a new version of their platform it will work on every mobile phone, whether that was Android, Windows, or Blackberry. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

Activision 217

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Los Angeles-based JuiceCaster, a provider of a mobile social networking application, said Wednesday that the firm has inked a deal with Photobucket, the online photo sharing site owned by Fox Interactive Media. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>

Social Network 100

Social Network Mobile Blogging Sites 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Developer and publisher of social mobile games. SGN games downloaded +17mm times on mobile devices. Operates a ‘Voice and Visual Mobile Advertising Network’ called MobileAd Xchange that delivers in-call voice advertisements and follow-up visual engagements (SMS, MMS).

Venture Capital 230

Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. We then spoke about startups.

Startup 286

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Smart matching offline connections startup, At The Pool , has today launched a mobile app that is set to reinvent the way people connect and interact. Social networking isn’t social. The web platform was founded to end loneliness associated with online interaction by replacing it with person to person meeting.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 25, 2010

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. For one, we built a following by using Facebook and Twitter and other social networking sites. We built unique websites for each show.

Social Media 220

Social Media Media Blogging Social Network 220

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2010

For us, it was a big departure from social networking and a new commitment to social entertainment. One is to watch the companies who have the ability to leverage the power of social. The second thing, is to look at companies who are creating value on mobile and the web that is not advertising based.

Southern California 178

Southern California High Tech Miramar News 178

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

We connect consumers to great content from around the Internet, from social networks, from thousands of branded video channels, and around any particular topic they're interested in. You helped define video on the web with iFilm. We caught up with Blair to learn more about his new startup, and why he thinks we need Frequency.

Social Network 232

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace said today that the firm has launched an application for Google's Android mobile operating system. According to MySpace, its new MySpace Mobile experience is available via Android Market, and allows MySpace users to access the firm's mobile web site.

Social Network 100

Social Network Mobile Google Sites 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking. He told me in some combinations of device / OS / network they are crashing 4 times per 100. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? How do the mobile customers break down by device type? On measurement.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup SEO Customer 346

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Filmaka is the creation of Deepak Nayar who is the producer of films such as Buena Vista Social Club and Bend it Like Beckham. But when you think about the movement we once called “Web 2.0″ Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. easy sharing (through social networks or platforms like YouTube).

Startup 380

Startup Media Content Platform 380

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We recently ran into Dialplus (www.dialplus.net), a company which is developing mobile applications which pull up social networking profiles from Facebook or other sites when you make a phone call to a friend. Sce Pike: My background is from the web world. This is the perfect convergence of mobile and web.

VentureNet 100

VentureNet Startup Mobile Technology Council 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". In "The Social Network" Denise portrays Gretchen, the attorney of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

IP 81

IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. What exactly are your mobile social networking applications? The second customer is the social networking sites.

Social Network 113

Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

Southern California 150

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

We once thought nobody could unseat Google since all inbound traffic to the web came from them. Enter social media and its importance as a traffic source. This was obviously prior to the Internet and everything that led to: (mobile smartphones, social networks, new payment technologies, etc.). Laughable now.

Technical Review 299

Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Los Angeles-based MomentFeed (www.momentfeed.com) is looking to sort through that data to help marketers better tap into location based, social networking. Now, what we've entered is actually Social Media 2.0, which is based on your mobile device, and it's app based.

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Free experience is web and mobile app-based, has ads, limited skipping, and limited listening time (40 hours/month). Social network app developer and ad network. Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman). Total: $41.0mm plus undisclosed Series A. Read more: TechCrunch.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. Resources Here are some related articles: The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect Update once to share with many on Yahoo! Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo!

Google 292

Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Its also been interesting to see the interaction of tools involved - Social Networking, Blogging and a Discussion Group. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0 The level of resumes we get through our LinkedIn networks is top notch. to help bloggers and blog readers with comments. How do you use LinkedIn?

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