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

Tech Zulu Event

Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. It’s not publicly known exactly when Google began developing Chrome and Chromium, but it must have been late 2006 or early 2007 since Chrome launched in September 2008. Just imagine if ISPs imposed a cost of $.02

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries. Pricing and revenue? December 2006 (17). November 2006 (19). October 2006 (31). September 2006 (9). You can add finishing touches like percentage %s, key ratios, etc. as you go. Engagement.

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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. Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!