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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

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. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). The initial web HTML / browser experience was very limited. Many of us argued at the time that the browsers would get more powerful and we bet our companies on that by not developing client applications. non-mobile).

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HTML5 Games Company Goko Launches and Raises $8M in Series A Funding

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Goko, a new HTML5 games company based in Redwood City California is set to help game developers easily distribute and monetize social games. Goko wants to work with developers to across the world to reinvent the popular HTML board and card games. Goko was founded by Ted Griggs as CEO and Kevin Binkley as CTO.

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

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It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?” Others are skeptical, “Ha!

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. A (Very) Brief (and Selective) History in Computing.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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We recently ran into Chris Tragos , one of the co-founders of Jetpack (www.jetpack.net), provider of an online ad platform. Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. What's the hardest challenge for your company?

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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One company which has been working on solving the Flash problem is Los Angeles-based Addroid (www.addroid.com). What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. You guys were at a digital agency, can you talk about how you spun this out into an independent company?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What set of functionality would make your company launch-ready? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Platform – are there pre-existing technical platform decisions that must be considered? If so, are specific software development processes necessary? What has been captured so far? Are there specs?

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