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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. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. We were in the trenches, with our sleeves rolled up, building these things, and we had the epiphany that this was not going to last.

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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. It’s certainly food for thought.

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

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It conjures up a range of emotions anytime I’ve privately expressed my opinion to thought leaders in our industry that I believe it is one of the most innovative companies in digital media. I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in. Video is the new HTML.”

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