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

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Where do you fit into the mobile ad market? What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. Since the iPhone in 2007, we are seeing that mobile is taking over, and what we were doing was not as relevant.

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

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Currencies only began in earnest about 2,500 years ago and ever since have been a great enabler of democracy and social mobility, not the other way around. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google. boom where many companies had deeply inflated values.

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

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Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Video is the new HTML.” Back then there were “email forwards.” He thinks the very nature of video is changing.

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