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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

Tech Zulu Event

Component design – computers need computer chips in order to compute, and computer chips have to be designed by someone. Device design – all of the major computing components – CPU, RAM, connectivity, display, battery, etc. – need to be enclosed into a coherently designed device. Value Chain.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

We wanted to bring the beauty of data visualization, of actionable insights to people in a very easy, very fast, very simple but very well designed way. We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. We said, in addition to being B2B, can we also do B2C?

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header. The web is broken by design and we cannot fix it anymore. Designating antisocial geeks.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Analysis on viral marketing, user experience, game design, and online ads. Design-wise, here are some things to consider: What’s your “event&# hierarchy and what level of granularity do you want? Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! I predict this will come before the end of 2012.