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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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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. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products.

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

Tech Zulu Event

No matter where I worked, I never found any sort of product that managed the workflow between editors and writers and it is the number one problem in the publishing world. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher. You even got Yahoo! But nothing fancy, probably just an app that is wrapped in HTML 5.

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

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Facebook went on become larger than even Google and Yahoo! 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API.