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My Professional Advice for 20 Years Olds

Jason Nazar

Working for someone that demands excellence and pushes your limits every day will build the most solid foundation for your ongoing professional success. Read More Books, Fewer Tweets/Texts – Your generation consumes information in headlines and 140 characters: all breadth and no depth.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

Tech Zulu Event

Publisher can publish an invoice template and say this is the information we want. I am informed on all the basics that are going on in the world, but if I need to dig deeper, I’ll just turn on the computer, radio, or TV. The mobile keeps me widely informed. You have Demand Media here. Why start Assignmint in LA?

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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. Right now our social graph (whom we are connected to and their key information like email addresses) is mostly held captive by Facebook. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra).

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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. Enter blockchain.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I personally experienced the even more subversive side of DIGG when I learned that groups of people were actually demanding money to get stories on the DIGG homepage and I, the naive believer in online democracy and good intentions of people, learned about the black hat and gray hat monetization of the Internet. Video is the new HTML.”

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