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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. . eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Is LinkedIn Intro Good, Bad, or Impossible?

Feld Thoughts

And since it uses OAuth to log in, it doesn’t even need to ask for your credentials. If the research community didn’t raise the alarm, the details of Intro’s integration wouldn’t have hit the radar. If they’re not, the Internet community will do it for you. At their discretion.

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The Psychology of Influence in Online Startups

VC Cafe

Online, Twitter is a great example of a community that uses reciprocity. Today it’s relatively simple to find out a lot of information about the users by having them connect to one of their social profiles using OAuth. Your startup did something nice for me and I’m going to do the same for you.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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OpenID, One Year Later - Blog – Stack Overflow

blog.stackoverflow.com

Finding the right balance of features, functionality, and privacy-preserving features is a core goal of the OpenID community. There should be some standards adopted by in the HTML5 spec that utilize these new technologies: OpenID, OAuth, ActivityStreams, etc. To James Schend I’d ask if he uses a webmail provider of any kind?

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?