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Alex Capecalatro is a young, up-and-coming UCLA-bred entrepreneur whose new service, Hyphos, aims to offer a fresh take on meeting new people to hang out with locally. Though Hyphos is his first startup, he’s a bright, ambitious, and knowledgable fellow who has a lot of great insights on the LA tech startup scene as well as the social media landscape.
When we last left local entrepreneur Seth Matlins, he was just getting Off Our Chests, well, off the ground. Off…
LA isn’t just home to a community of bright entrepreneurs; it’s also home to a legion of great writers and bloggers. Throughout the year, Lalawag will be chatting with some of the city’s most prominent bloggers to find out a bit more about what makes them tick.
Jenn Wong (@wayofthewong) is a self-proclaimed “Urban Spelunker,” specializing in unearthing unique locations and activities to do in Los Angeles. She lives and breathes the city day in day out and shares her adventures with the world via her blog, Way Of The Wong.
Sony’s finally begun the process of rolling out reparations for its millions of consumers that were affected by the Great PlayStation Network Hack Of 2011. Whether or not you’re happy with Sony’s response to the whole fiasco, they’re still offering up free stuff, so you may as well take advantage of it.
Local TV station KCET has an interesting feature on how Team Bondi, the developers of LA Noire, painstakingly researched from UCLA, USC, and LAPL regional history libraries in order to recreate 1947 metropolitan LA.
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Leave it to a British promotional codes company to consolidate information on Sony’s recent PlayStation Network breach into an easy to read infographic, but hey, we won’t complain about the source. Promotional Codes has taken data from the Ponemon (not a type of Pokemon) Institute, an independent security research firm, and gussied it up into the infographic you see below.
The LA Times had a nice chat with Lise Buyer (I swear I am not making that up), the former investment banker who helped Google go public in 2004, about the LinkedIn IPO yesterday.
Tech Headlines For May 20th, 2011.
Jenny Ortiz honed her interviewing skills once upon a time as an Executive Recruiter at a firm. She was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug at the same time and started a designer cake company named Tea Time Cake. At one point it all clicked with her that she should use her expertise in probing and talking with people in order to find out more about entrepreneurial women like her. Thus, Interviewher was born — a blog and social networking site focused on women who own their own businesses.
Zaarly is a unique take on the concept that anything can be on sale. It’s a web/mobile service that serves to connect buyers and sellers in a sort of location based reverse-Craigslist. Instead of sellers posting their wares, Zaarly focuses on posts from what people want.
What? It’s already time for another Tubefilter Hollywood TV Meetup? You betcha sweet tushy it is! This quarter’s meetup is…
Another week, another “security risk” alert for a major tech company. Security researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany have tested a theory that had been circulating the web since February on the possibilities in sniffing out and impersonating login information on Android phones through WiFi networks. According to them, “The short answer is: Yes, it is possible, and it is quite easy to do so.”
Tech Headlines for May 17th, 2011.
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Every group of friends has one. That self-proclaimed “foodie” who always whips out the camera at every meal to take a picture and alert the internet to what they are eating. You may not think it’s necessary, but for some people the ritual is almost as habitual as giving thanks before the meal. Why is this?
LA isn’t just home to a community of bright entrepreneurs; it’s also home to a legion of great writers and bloggers. Throughout the year, Lalawag will be chatting with some of the city’s most prominent bloggers to find out a bit more about what makes them tick.
Leslie Sarna (@lesliesarna) is “The Dainty Vegetarian,” but don’t let that trick you into thinking that her blog isn’t for carnivores as well. She’s a self-taught cook, foodie, and event planner with a focus on great tasting dishes and recipes that just happen to not contain meat in them. Her blog is read in over 130 countries and is one of the top-searched vegetarian sites from Google. We had a nice chat with Leslie about her inspiration in blogging and also discover one of her favorite healthy recipes for a working lunch!
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