SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 12, 2012

YOU GOT THEM TO YOUR SITE, BUT THEN WHAT? Live Site Reviews to Improve User Experience. It is surprising to find out about what both web designers and marketers often miss, which are key ingredients of what your audience can see and not see on the website. Wednesday, January 18, 2012 -- Website Usability LIVE.

TechBiz 100

TechBiz Web Design Class Sites 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. If you look at anything that's evolved in consumer technology, it always starts pretty basic.

Demand 240

Demand Media eHow Content 240

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

Startup 133

Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

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. event I did last fall. in Computer Science.

Blogging 150

Blogging CTO Coach CTO Hire Southern California 150

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Recently, Santa Monica-based Docstoc (www.docstoc.com) launched a new marketplace on its site, for anyone interested in selling professional documents. Jason is also behind the popular "Startups Uncensored" events in Los Angeles, so we also pinged him on how those events have been going. It's the eBay of professional documents.

Technical Review 171

Technical Review Rustic Canyon Screening Startup 171

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. While some technical aspects in the post quickly changed (e.g., Design Challenge In this particular web site, we needed to get the user's email (and password).

Design 225

Design Mahalo Social Network Email 225

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

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Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

socalTECH

AUGUST 3, 2012

And, how do programs like YouTube's recent push to help fund original content channels on the site helping? Our focus was to utilize new technology for streaming over the internet, broadcasting underserved sports which normally don't end up on TV, in HD quality, for viewers across the country and world. What is IBN Sports?

Content 212

Content Google Southern California Orange County 212

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

Technical Review 338

Technical Review CTO Hire CTO Coach Software Review 338

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Configurable from desktop-based web-based UI. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

Venture Capital 240

Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 10, 2010

The time has come for us to say goodbye SoCal (temporarily of course) and HELLO Austin! Make sure to checkout the updated SMCH3 site as they have tons of great info. . WillYouTrend.com is a site set out on the mission to inspire us all to be great, influential people. Trending topics are all the rage, Twitter, Google.

Stickam 71

Stickam Technical Review Draper SoCal 71

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The company was founded by Bong Koh, a former EIR at Prism VentureWorks and venture capitalist at Advanced Technology Ventures; he also co-founded ibeatyou. We've only been working on the site for May, June, July, and August, and it's a brand new endeavor for us. You, as an entrepreneur, are expected to go though due diligence.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The company just opened up a beta of its site Thursday. There's lots of other health care sites on the web, what's different here? The medical sector is not known for readily adopting technology, how are you handling that? Do you have any issues with privacy of healthcare information on the site?

Startup 100

Startup Technical Review Southern California Sites 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2008

The company just opened up a beta of its site Thursday. There's lots of other health care sites on the web, what's different here? The medical sector is not known for readily adopting technology, how are you handling that? Do you have any issues with privacy of healthcare information on the site?

Startup 100

Startup Technical Review Southern California Sites 100

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Tech. SIGNIFICANCE PASSING-MENTION. --> Tech Titans Hit the Beach As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, theyre reshaping the real-estate landscape. The tech industry is going south. The southern migration is taking place as companies like Google. Tech Titans on the Move.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. But I don’t think so. Ask a question and get an answer - that is, after all, what all Q&A sites offer.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Startup Product Technology 175

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

The technically savvy reader, familiar with my attitude, has already figured out that I’ve read way too many raw logs. Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Or leave the Web, respectively pay the publishers.

Social Media 41

Social Media Develop Development Media 41

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. Here are the top 30 along with a brief snippet from the post.

Startup 175

Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175