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

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Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. In October 2011, Google purchased Motorola, which has business units dispersed through the first four layers of the value chain: component design, component production, device design, and device production. The post Why Google Fiber?

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

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Don’t Stop Believing. Social Networking in Web 1.0: GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!