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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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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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. Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids.

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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

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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. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Video is the new HTML.”

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