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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) How did the site come about? This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? NoSQL came from the web, but it willl find a natural home in the enterprise.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? NoSQL came from the web, but it willl find a natural home in the enterprise.

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It’s An Agile World

Feld Thoughts

” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. ” I finally convinced my manager to give me and one other engineer two months to work on a rearchitecture effort in secret, even though our group has nothing to do with the actual web services.

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I Have a Web Site, What Else Should I be Doing Online 2 :: Small.

Duct Tape Marketing

The reviews shown on your Places listing come from multiple sources across the web including big “local&# sites like InsiderPages , Citysearch , Yelp as well as niche sites like Zagat and TripAdvisor and tons more. Tip: click on your competitors’ listings to see additional sites their reviews are coming from.)

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

Well before the web existed, I was physically tearing articles out of industry magazines and sending them to customers, prospects, other entrepreneurs, and my partner Dave, who probably got tired of the stack of paper with notes scribbled on them that landed on his desk each day.

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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. That was in May 2004, when she approached the Athens New Media Synergy Center out of UGA to build a mobile student messaging platform she called Vusion.