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

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With Fiber, Google has 2 primary objectives: 1) Billionaire celebrity investor Warren Buffet explains the first reason most eloquently: “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Fiber is a moat-widening endeavor. 2) Fiber is a means to Google’s vision of the future of computing.

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

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There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. HTML will get you modern browsers, but won't work on old browsers.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 MySpace vowed not to create anymore big successes off of their backs that Google could then acquire. The Past (1985-2002).

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Topsy , for example, does respect the content producer — so morons using “Python-urllib/1.17″ or “AppEngine-Google; (+[link] appid: mapthislink)&# could obey the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP), too. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way. Don’t be shy. Go rant away. Thanks in advance!

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

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This likely means something like Google Analytics , although there is a very large universe of equivalent tools out there as well. Google analytics can’t really tell you much - it’s not very actionable. Via a JS interface called by the client (like Google Analytics) or server-side within your methods? July 2007 (9).

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

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ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google]. 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. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65