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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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SweetLabs Awards $50K To App Developers

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SweetLabs, which is backed by Intel Capital, Google Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, is attempting to create an app environment--similar to iPhone and Android apps--for the PC. SweetLabs reported it received 60 apps over the six week challenge, which are now available on its site. READ MORE>>.

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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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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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U; en)" (among others) while the Google search engine bot goes by"Googlebot/2.1 (+[link] (among others). Note that the word "SpammerRobot"can be in any mixture of capital (uppercase) or small (lowercase) letters. Should I Use PHP or HTML for My Website? For example, version 9.51 Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website?

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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

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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Assuming normal valuations at fund raising rounds you’ll be down to 6-12% after you’ve created a stock-option pool and raised capital. I know it happened in the late 90’s and there are some very wealthy minority shareholders from Google’s early days. But many people win the lottery every week also.

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