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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. Once Larry and Sergey developed search’s secret sauce, PageRank, they backwards-integrated into server-side software technologies to power and scale search. 02 per Google search, and provided Yahoo for free.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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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. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Well, it’s true that HEAD request provoke only an HTTP response header.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

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On the flip-side, Assignmint is a tool for editors, which we are in the process of developing right now. You even got Yahoo! JK: We are fundraising, getting more money in the bank, get a new developer to redesign my site, and get our clients on board. But nothing fancy, probably just an app that is wrapped in HTML 5.

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

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GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo! By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. History repeats itself. Don’t Stop Believing.