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

Tech Zulu Event

To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Web browser – even a functional computer with an OS isn’t enough to access most Google services. Search is just another web application.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

The answer was yes, and we also saw that we could begin to play at web scale, be hosted in the cloud, be scalable in an extensive way. We then actually went to the leader, Amazon, and we're in the web services group. We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. ″, “somebot/2.0″,

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

SoCal Delicious

Every web product ultimately has a bunch of user flows contained within it. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries. Very interesting roadmap to building a robust web analytics capability. December 2006 (17). November 2006 (19). as you go.

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

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.