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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. It’s Hobbesian economics 101.

Course 280
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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? Only guarantee for longevity is if you have options. Server and client in Java.

Platform 150