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Appallicious & the Age of Open Data

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Apple’s App Store launched in 2008 and is already closing in on 50 billion downloads. Chances are you’ll come face-to-face with a dusty web design with information buried behind confusing menus, documents with inscrutable titles, and slideshows that move at the speed of continental drift. Ten years ago?

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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