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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

During the recent launch of Blackberry 7 OS in Singapore, Research In Motion (RIM) executives had shared that Southeast Asia was a potential hotbed of application developers with whom they were keen to work with. RIM has actively established and supported BlackBerry Developer Groups across Asia.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

venturedig.com

The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. For instance, LivingSocial is an application where users can make a list of their favorite things.

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

It’s important to decide which of these approaches you want to take, as some languages are designed to promote stable, scalable architecture, while others are better suited for rapid application development. This simply makes the development process much easier. Applications built with Node.js are focused on speed.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. Young Upstarts is a media partner of e27 and Echelon 2011. You can catch Carmen Benitez and Fetch Plus at the upcoming Echelon 2011.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. Just ask MySpace.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. I hate indulging in wanton portfolio self-promotion, but my partners & I are incredibly excited about these companies and will undoubtedly continue to make more investments in this vein. Previous Entries.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

With the pending arrival of the iPhone 5 in September, as well as new tablets from Amazon, Microsoft and Apple expected in the fall, the world is progressively mobile first and the Windows duopoly has been completely cracked, resulting in more end user computing device application development in the last two years than in the previous 10.

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