SoCal CTO

JANUARY 13, 2010

In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Interestingly, they are not including Google Authentication. Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo!

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Google Startup Yahoo Email 292

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 7, 2011

I started telling people privately that I thought Google should buy Disqus for the same reasons Facebook wants to own commenting in the first place. Commenting on topical blogs is a form of topical social networking in the same way that Quora is. But I don’t want it becoming the web. So should I switch?

Blogging 287

Blogging Social Network Google Startup 287

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. Back in January 2010, I wrote a post that's one of the most popular on this blog: When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Design Mahalo Social Network Email 225

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. Signal Sciences secures $35 million investment to protect web apps. Morgan Stanley & Co.

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Culver City SaaS Los Angeles Social Network 249

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

was the “static&# web. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. was the 2-way web. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. I then remember when Amazon started selling books on the web. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? contextual text ads (e.g. So did the media.

Ideas 286

Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

socalTECH

JULY 7, 2010

Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. They've acquired CAPTCHA security tools originally developed by Vidoop, and looking to market that technology to e-commerce web sites, social networking sites, and others looking to reduce spam and fraud.

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Southern California Entrepreneur SoCal Mahalo 228

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2010

The analysts at Morgan Stanley have produced a report that’s quite good reading on some of the major trends concerning mobile web. They talk about: 5 Trends Converging (3G + Social Networking + Video + VoIP + Impressive Mobile Devices) which is more than what I think of as mobile internet. social networking, etc.

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Mobile Slides Web 2.0 Social Network 204

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. People on the Web now include everyone.

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Web Entrepreneur Doc Examples 95

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2011

Unfortunately, despite the wealth of Internet based tools for email management, web-based sales management tools, and more, contact tracking has been mostly an afterthought in the Internet age. Jon describes how he's creating a "next generation", web-based contact manager which takes into account the social nature of the web today.

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Google Tool Email Sales 216

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

By Evan Britton Each day, millions of internet users post updates on a variety of social networking sites. Because of all of these updates, there is a wealth of real-time information on the web. Google has also taken notice of the real-time web and they have begun to mix real-time results into their engine.

Web 82

Web Social Network Google Networking 82

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2021

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Proactively build a positive reputation.

Search Engine Optimization 163

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 163

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

David encourages entrepreneurs to stay away from the big tech firms (such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple) because they are hard to compete with. And Dropbox & Box.net in a Google, Microsoft, Apple world. We once thought nobody could unseat Google since all inbound traffic to the web came from them.

Technical Review 299

Technical Review Venture Capital Yammer Google 299

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 Examples include SendOutCards, Google, and Amazon.

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Web Web 2.0 Doc Examples 88

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. 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. Social networks continue to drive conversion of marketers.

Advertising 284

Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. plus a large settlement on patent disputes paid from Google) so Bill did well on it. Google had huge destination traffic. Google monetized this with AdWords (ads on their home page). It kicked Google Video’s ass.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2011

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Proactively build a positive reputation.

Web 93

Web Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network 93

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves?

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Develop Development Startup SEO 396

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Facebook became so dominant in social, not even Google could touch them. Yet a tiny 13 person company called Instagram, leveraged the massive growth of mobile to create a new social network. The same is true online, as the desktop web experience is quickly being overtaken by the mobile experience. Or Tapes and CDs?

Technical Review 223

Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Social Integration/Viral Outreach - are you integrating in some way with social networks? Is your integration limited to login and “like” buttons or are you building a presence within the social networks themselves?

Develop 384

Develop Development Startup SEO 384

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 30, 2011

Google, they’ve cracked a nut here. With Wave being an experiment, and Buzz being a dead duck from the get go, Google Plus (Google+) is actually a usable, integrated, complete-feeling product released this week, and it’s pretty damn good. Now, there’s Google+. Holy cow is Google+ fast and responsive.

Google 82

Google Mobile Web Social Network 82

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. 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. InviteMedia (acquired by Google). These are both either “remnant” or free ad types.

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Capital Metrics Competition 217

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. The currency of the real-time web is, for now, your Twitter address. Tags: Social Media social networking startup technology Twitter.

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Los Angeles-based social networking site MySpace , in a bid to connect with the "real-time" web, said early this morning at the LeWeb conference that it has launched a new, real-time API. As part of the launch of the new API, the firm said Google, GroovyCorp, and OneRiot have already started using the API. READ MORE>>.

Social Network 124

Social Network Conference Google Web 124

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

Competitors: Google. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). Developer and publisher of social mobile games. -SGN Current round: $2mm Series B from Tomorrow Ventures (Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google) and Lars Hinrichs (Xing founder). Scans the web for a kid’s activity in realtime and sends alerts. -Co-Founders

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Fandango 230

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Xobni “Social plug-in for Microsoft Outlook&# – As Enrique Gutierrez said on Twitter today, Xobni is “ the best damn thing ever for Outlook.&# Here’s the thing. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. The build “implicit social networks.&#

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

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

Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. So is this more social networking, or is this search? We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company.

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UCSD Social Network Content Sites 145

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

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.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

Targets Are you developing a native app and/or a web app? Can you do a hybrid web/native application? Registration Do you plan to support Google Sign-In, Facebook Connect, or similar 3rd-party authentication? Social Integration/Viral Outreach Is your application tied into any social networks?

Develop 520

Develop Development Technical Review SEO 520

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. And our network of filmmaker and entertainment industry colleagues allow us to recruit top teachers who are leaders in the web world. What inspired you?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

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. Zumbox was essentially the USPS online, where we had networked street addresses so that email cloud flow online the same way as it did offline.

Social Media 248

Social Media Zumbox Media Startup 248

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Proactively build a positive reputation.

Report 98

Report Search Engine Optimization Startup Google 98

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Big news in the social gaming sphere as major interactive gaming player Kabam announces the launch of The Godfather: Five Families out of beta and into commercial exclusively with Google+ Games. It’s some pretty major news at it signifies an interesting list of milestones in the social gaming industry: 1.

Google 64

Google Paramount Web 2.0 News 64

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 6, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest, former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), co-founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Competition Software Review Course 232

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2015

Most entrepreneurs don’t even know how to keep track of what people are saying about them on the web, much less how to respond or remove it. Web reputation management, both business and personal, has become a top priority requirement. It’s easier to make Google remember than to forget. Proactively build a positive reputation.

Search Engine Optimization 101

Search Engine Optimization Content Social Network Google 101

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Messenger : Kevin O’Connor , Co-Founder of FindTheBest , former Co-Founder and CEO DoubleClick (sold to Google, $3.1B, seed investor ISS (sold to IBM, $1.3B), Co-Founder ICC (sold to DCA $25mm). This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network,” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup.

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Blogging Entrepreneur Software Review Course 219