The CLZ Concepts Blog

The beginning of Social Applications

Posted by Jeff Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:57:00 GMT

First - I guess I should introduce myself. I work with James and Linus at CLZ (I’m the ‘C’) We have a lot of thoughts about social applications, networks, the internet, and the world at large. This will be the place where we write them down and share with you. We love to bounce ideas off of people, so if you don’t agree - feel free to write a comment!

Well, I should really rename the title of this article because social applications have been ‘started’ since mid last year. But really the fight for ‘which is the best social network’ to be on is far from over. So far Facebook being first to the social web plugin architecture has been great - they enabled application developers like us to get hundreds of thousands of users with in a very short amount of time.

But - MySpace recently announced that they are launching their API. This battle is getting exciting. And what? Did I also hear that google is looking to buy Bebo? Talk about a strategic blockade to getting Facebook’s platform adopted. (story) NewsFlash: if you are a social network and looking to cash out, you can go get the FB platform and then ask google to buy you.

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Welcome to the CLZ blog

Posted by James Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:28:00 GMT

After three months of operations, we finally got around to putting up a blog for ourselves. So, let me introduce CLZ for the very first time.

My name is James, and along with my roommates Jeff and Linus, we comprise of the 3 man team of CLZ Concepts (CLZ is a concatenation of our last initials). We are an elite team of technologists with an acute eye for making good businesses. Small teams of entrepreneurs hoping to hit it big is a dime a dozen in Silicon Valley, but what makes us unique is that we are a perfectly balanced team.

While we all have engineering degrees, our skill sets aligns to an extraordinary degree. Jeff is our resident business development and deal making guru. Linus is an all-arounder with special emphasis on UI design. Lastly, I am the expert in scalable software architecture. Our team live together, work together, party together and go on vacation together. We’re almost at the point of being able to finish each other’s thoughts. We believe that this team is our greatest asset, and so far, we haven’t been disappointed.

So, follow us on our journey, where we get to change the world, one startup at a time.

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