socalTECH

MAY 22, 2013

Qualaroo , a developer of website conversion and analytics software which helps web businesses improve the experience and conversion of their visitors, has launched a new product. The company--which is backed by $5.5M

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 9, 2013

I''ve written before about finding Web Development Firms in Los Angeles. How good is the company''s own site? They shouldn''t be showing you that they don''t care at all about looks and content on their own site. But if their site is really gorgeous, that means they are good at design, not necessarily development.

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Web Development Web Develop Development 204

TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2020

This project measures the high-water mark performance of server side web application frameworks and platforms using predominantly community-contributed test implementations. Round 19 introduces two new features in the results web site: Composite scores and a hardware environment score we're calling the TechEmpower Performance Rating (TPR).

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. We are hiring.

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Framework Software Review Technical Review EC2 521

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

” In our performance consulting work, we often hear variations of the following: “Our web application was running fine with a few hundred users. Web application performance is a broad discipline. And retail sites are not alone; all sites will silently lose visitors who are made to wait. “It was running fine.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2011

Recently, we ran into Edo Cohen , CEO of Los Angeles-based Seevolution (www.seevolution.com), a firm developing web site heat map tracking software. Edo Cohen: Seevolution is a real time analytics and heat map company for web sites and web applications. Edo Cohen: Anyone with a web site.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

A major hack on domain name registrar GoDaddy appears to have taken out a huge number of internet sites -- including local startup Goodreads. GoDaddy hosts millions of domain names, as well as provides web hosting services itself, but it's unclear how many sites were affected by the outage. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Torrance-based Swagbucks.com , an online site which allows users to earn virtual currency or other rewards from taking actions online, has now given away $15M in prizes since its launch in 2008. The site--which is headed by Scott Dudelson--also said it is on track to have $25M in revenues this year. READ MORE>>.

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Torrance Web Sites Activity 241

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. No matter how you end up on the front page of a major news site, getting there is just the first step.

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TechEmpower

JULY 9, 2019

The results web site now includes a dark theme, because dark themes are the new hotness. Nikolay Kim ( @fafhrd91 ) explained the tactics used by Actix to acheive record performance on the Fortunes test. Other updates. Round 18 now includes just over two hundred test implementations (which we call "frameworks" for simplicity).

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Framework TechEmpower Summary Web 89

socalTECH

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Lynda.com , the site which helps people learn software and other skills from online videos, has been recognized for its job creation, the firm said Friday, ranking number 1 in job creation in education by Inc. Lynda.com's online site offers up instructional courses on everything from software like Photoshop to Wordpress, and Excel to AutoCAD.

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Calabasas Education Sites Course 245

TechEmpower

MAY 2, 2013

We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. We felt they did not add tremendous value to the site. As with previous rounds, the developer community has contributed several additional frameworks for Round 4, bringing the total to 57!

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Framework PHP Template EC2 552

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Geocities , the original Southern California internet startup--which was founded all the way back in 1994 in Los Angeles--will finally disappear completely from the Internet, as Yahoo said today that it will shut down its Japanese Geocities site. Geocities was one of the first Internet IPOs out of Los Angeles, and sold to Yahoo for $4.5

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. And yet, users rave about the service, and spend long durations of time on the site. Remember when? And the numbers were staggering.

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Metrics Sites Advertising Web 296

socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2012

Santa Monica-based Edmunds.com , the online auto information web site, said this morning that it has enhanced its site, adding a new online chat feature on the site. Edmunds.com said it is tapping Contact At Once!

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Santa Monica Sites Web Pricing 227

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2012

Are you the sort of person who relies on your friends to help you figure out the best places to explore on the web? That's the idea behind HypeMarks (www.hypemarks.com), a new startup looking to tap into your social graph to guide you to the web. I'm a person that loves discovering new stuff on the web.

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socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2012

Los Angeles-based HypeMarks , a new startup aimed at social discovery, launched into beta this week, looking to help users and their friends discover the web through each other. The startup lets users create a collection of sites they love, which they can show to their friends, discuss, and recommend to others.

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Web Los Angeles Sites Startup 225

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

We caught up with founder Evan Britton about how his company has created the top site in the Internet niche of celebrity birthdays, and how that intense focus on a single niche--and user experience- has paid off for the company in terms of user engagement and growth. That was the genesis of the site. It was discouraging.

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Google Sites Startup Web 236

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2019

Los Angeles-based cloud hosting service DreamHost is one of the popular web hosting companies, caught up in the latest report of a widespread cybersecurity hole, which researcher say allowed hackers to easily access and take over accounts. READ MORE>>.

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Web Report Services Research 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based online matchmaking site eHarmony said Thursday that it is expanding its market, and has launched a brand new site, specifically aimed at Spanish speaking singles. According to eHarmony, its new web site is built to serve both Spanish speaking singles in the U.S., READ MORE>>.

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eHarmony Sites Course Web 100

TechEmpower

APRIL 22, 2013

We''ve previously posted two rounds of results of benchmarking many web application platforms and frameworks. With that breadth we decided to move the project''s results to a stand-alone site separate from this blog. The community''s response remains strong! Thanks to those contributions, the number of tests has grown to over 50.

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. Shane Bernstein: We're looking at things from a lot of different sites, and using big data to process them. It's a 100 percent passive pool.

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Sites Startup Tool CTO Hire 240

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

You are viewing the first round of web application framework benchmarks. Check out the new stand-alone framework benchmarks site if you are interested in the latest and most accurate data. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. Web servers.

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Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

TechEmpower

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This is not batching of queries implemented by the application or web frameworks, but rather an optimization provided invisibly by the database driver. The results web site is a bit wider in response to feedback. Thereotically (and we believe in practice) short queries could be sent together in the same network packets.

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Framework Software Review TechEmpower Writing 75

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2013

Los Angeles-based content delivery network provider NetDNA is powering a web performance optimization service for WordPress blog owners this morning. NetDNA said that W3 Total Cache , which develops a plug-in for the popular WordPress web publishing software, is using its MaxCDN services to help its customers with optimizing WordPress sites.

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Services Blogging Web Sites 185

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2011

BetterWorks looks to be scaling up dramatically; the firm currently has eight open positions listed on its web site for everything from engineers to marketing director. Craig has recruited the co-creater of Zynga's Farmville game, Sizhao Yang, as well as George Ishii, who was co-founder of Geni.com and Yammer, as co-founders.

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Yammer Santa Monica Web Sites 242

socalTECH

MAY 9, 2012

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparisons site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Conner, has inked another distribution deal, this time with ad network and widget provider Lijit. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Blogging Sites Web 197

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

Carpinteria-based online video education site Lynda.com said today that it has acquired Compilr , a developer of a software coding and development environment which lets people learn how to write, compile, and test code from their web browser. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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Education Acquisition Writing Web 223

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2012

Los Angeles-based Invested.in , the developer of web-based software for managing crowd funding efforts, has connected its service into the popular AngelList service, saying last week that it is launching Crowdcelerator.com , a new service which uses AngelList's API to help startup companies raise funds and close their fundraising rounds.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Anyone with the slightest interest in the world of social Internet services nowadays has by now heard of Pinterest , the online site which allows users to "pin" and comments on their favorite photos from across the web. Pinterest is one of the latest services to sweep the Internet world in terms of popularity, particularly with women.

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Venice Sites Media Web 215

socalTECH

JULY 5, 2011

For today's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Swagbucks (www.swagbucks.com), an online site which allows users to earn virtual currency in exchange for searching the Internet, as well as other activities. They'd promote the site to their constituents and supporters, to raise money for the company, and we'd share it back with them.

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Startup Sites Web Entertainment 266

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2013

Gigit says on its web site that it can be used for as diverse as things as finding someone to serenade your true love at the office, book an "epic" Rush Week fraternity party, hire a Mariachi band to follow a workmate at a birthday, or to hire live music and DJs for a salon, wine bar, or gallery. READ MORE>>.

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Sites Web Los Angeles Organization 229

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I arrived on this scene wet behind the ears assuming that the web was, as it seemed to me as a user, powered by the masses for the masses. I had previously believed that the world of user-generated news sites were run on a open, crowd-sourced model. I know the more experienced consumer web people will be laughing about now.

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News Blogging Search Engine Optimization SEO 284

socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2012

Huntington Beach-based AnyMeeting , which develops free web conferencing and online meeting software, reported this morning that it has released a new feature which lets users share any YouTube video into their meeting, and has also hit a milestone of 200,000 registered users.

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Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels Conference Pasadena 193

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

From there, you will generally see a pop-up dialog similar to the following (this one is from CitySearch): Once you click Connect, the original site now knows that I’m Tony Karrer from Facebook and the various demographic and friend information from Facebook. Wouldn’t it be nice if users could register on our site using these same mechanisms?

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Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

The company's founder and CEO is Sean Broihier , who told us all about the site--and also how. Once you get that profile page, you can upload your beautiful images to our site. So, buyers will come to our site, which has all of these beautiful images from all. building a web site for him. I figured there.

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Santa Monica Pricing Sites Sales 258

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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Services Social Network Web Tool 207