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Factual Opens New API

socalTECH

The new API makes it easier for software developers to correlate data from those multiple, different sites, creating in essence a "universal translator" for data between those services.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. What's the business model behind the site--it looks like this is advertising driven? What is Scour?

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UCLA Hack-a-thon Starts Today!

Tech Zulu Event

This weekend, February 22-24th, will be your chance to attend UCLA Anderson School of Management’s 42 hour Developers Contest, hosted at ROC in Santa Monica. UCLA’s ASM has partnered with Microsoft, Nokia, WIX, Yahoo! The details of this event are quite amazing. Fri, Feb 22. 3:00pm Doors Open. 5:00pm Brown Bag/Teamwork.

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myfab5 Wanst to Reinvent The Way You Find Food | Interview With Co-Founder Calvin Schemanski

Tech Zulu Event

Unlike typical review sites, our platform does not use star ratings or long reviews. If you search for pizza on a site like Yelp , you will see a list of places that are between 3.5 You would have to spend anywhere from 15 – 60 minutes to review all three places on a site like Yelp or TripAdvisor. What is myfab5?

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Do Not Obsess On Names – Obsess On Delivering Awesome Customer Value

InfoChachkie

Yahoo – Merriam-Webster defines “Yahoo” as “a boorish, crass, or stupid person.” Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.” Cisco” is descriptive of nothing, offering no hint as to the company’s initial router design and development proficiency.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

Jetty is used in everything from Eclipse programming environments to a number of commercial application servers out there, to open source projects like Hadoop, the highly sponsored project from Yahoo which showed the fasting sorting of terabyte of random information recently. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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