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

Tech Zulu Event

Computers still need web browsers to power HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and many other core web technologies. Someone needs to manufacture all of this hardware and network infrastructure to connect everything. Those same data centers would later power the rest of Google’s services.

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AT&T and American Airlines | The SXSW Party & Hackathon Recap

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The competition was fierce and the winner was…… Airping! Technologies used: SQL Server, C#, IIS, HTML, and CSS. Not only did they get all types of swag and great food, these hackers got to be some of the first to build on APIs from AT&T and American Airlines. Up for grabs for first place at this hack was $10k.

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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.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005). Video is the new HTML.” I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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