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

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. I decided well if I am going to be investing in this stuff at least I need to understand what it’s like to have a blog, to be generating content, and it was quite interesting at the very, very beginning.“. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. OpenEvents and OpenReviews, were early attempts at standardizing schemas and shared servers for these forms of micro-content.

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