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

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What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. We started working in stealth mode on the product, and built the product and got it working.

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

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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. So they skipped over those steps of the value chain, and purchased Android in 2005 (launched in 2008) to backwards integrate to the OS layer.

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

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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 the decentralized Internet.

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

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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.” Back then there were “email forwards.”

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