Amazon Webservices is hosting a The Start-Up Project event in Santa Monica on October 23rd, 2-7pm. Tags: santa monica amazo Amazon Web Services provides entrepreneurs with the ability to scale their business with access to Amazon's robust infrastructure and technological resources via services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Utilizing AWS' solutions, you can compete on ideas -- not resources -- and turn your idea into a profitable business.

In a spazz of pre-holiday excitement, we've neglected to mention the fabulous ThursdayLunch , hosted by Eric Hammond and friends over at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica.  This spiffy lunch happens (almost) every Thursday (for those of you pining for a more regular geek fix), and is an informal "friends of friends" meetup over good Westside food.  Where: Third Street Promenade, just south of Santa Monica Blvd.  When: @ noon, most Thursdays Note: Interested first timers, please contact Eric Hammond at 415-234-5400 x818 so you're not a stranger when you show up.

in Santa Monica last Friday. in Santa Monica - They’re hiring! I've been remiss in posting to this blog. Very busy on a couple interesting start-ups. More on them in a couple months. In any case, I went by Lunch 2.0

I went to an event by Amazon on their Amazon Web Services in Santa Monica today. The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The S3 system is not a transactional object system, it's for larger objects, larger updates. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility.

the Los Angeles Perl Mongers will have their next technical meeting in Santa Monica on November 8th at 7pm. Perl 5.10 (based on rbjs' presentation at the PPW ). Tags: user group santa monica per Creating Domain Specific Languages with Parrot. A/B B Testing by Ben Tilly

Santa Monica, 90405 There are still Palm users out there! Who'd have thought. (I I traded my Treo in for an iPhone when they came out). This is the newly resurrected Los Angeles Palm User Group , which just started meeting again last month.

I've been on for only a couple years (since July 2007, Discover your LinkedIn Start Date… ) but kept good track of my contacts prior. What I do is tack something in front of the text they provide, such as: We met the Tues 9/28 at the Pink Slip Mixer’s event in Santa Monica. If it’s not as recent, or you feel they may not remember you or what you talked about, and/or you want to increase your chance that they will respond, try something I was recently asked how I reached “500+” connections. Interesting question, since I'm not an "open" networker (LION = LinkedIn Open Networker).

Santa Monica-based Demand Media has been sued by Chip Meyers, the founder of Mania.com, according to a report today from paidContent.org. from Demand, over Demand Media' acquisition of his site in 2007. ...Tags: paidContent said that Meyers is looking for at least $6.2M Tags: demand media lawsuit chip meyers mania merger acquisition lega

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the Internet publishing and content effort run by Richard Rosenblatt, reported today that the firm has seen more than one billion video streams across its network of sites and branded YouTube channels. The growth in video streams is a direct result of the firm's acquisition of Expert Village in 2007, a site which was focused on user-greated, how-to videos. The firm said that it now hosts more than 175,000 videos, generated from its network of social publishing sites. Demand Media's stable of sites include eHow.com, LIVESTRONG.COM, GolfLink.com,

Santa Monica-based Business.com , which provides online directories for B2B purchasing, announced today that the firm has launched a new tool to help advertisers access pay-per-click metrics on the site. Donnelley back in 2007. According to the firm, the new Business.com Conversion Tracking tool has been in beta since March, and is now available to all of its advertisers. Business.com claims that the metrics in the tool are unavailable through other web analytics programs, and specifically addresses limitations in such products like Google's Urchin analytics tools.