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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

I dropped in to check out the contest a few times during the competition and the environment was uplifting and exciting. walking around seeing coders buried deep into code, focused on completing their product before the clock expired. Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. Product Design.

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hereO | Watching the Kids

Tech Zulu Event

The hereO app is another product the team has created in conjunction with the watch to help track family members. An Android and HTML 5 version will follow in June. Allon showed me a variety of hereO watches in different colors and compared them to the competition. hereO is small and light.

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

Tech Zulu Event

Component production – someone needs to manufacture all of those components. Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. The hardware production industry is capital and labor intensive, complicated, and faces significant human rights, regulatory, and seasonality risks.

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Cojoin | Data Integration

Tech Zulu Event

We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. But the end result was incredibly valuable, so looked at that end result and we were able to optimize our campaigns and be more efficient than our competition. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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