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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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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML). non-mobile).

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Exploring A Brave New World Of Domain Names, With Rightside

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To get some insight into how those names are changing--we caught up with Steve Banfield , SVP and GM of Registrar Services over at Rightside (www.rightside.co) -- which is in the midst of spinning out from Santa Monica-based Demand Media. I don''t think the HTML browser is going to change. We''re now supporting lots of the new TLDs.

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HTML5 Games Company Goko Launches and Raises $8M in Series A Funding

Tech Zulu Event

Goko wants to work with developers to across the world to reinvent the popular HTML board and card games. It has an SDK for developers to create, distribute and monetize HTML5 social games across iOS, Android, Facebook, Google+ and Windows 8 and the web.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Will you tap into geolocation services provided by the browser or license a third-party lookup table? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Do you transact immediately or on delivery of some product or service? See also - When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication. Will you tap into geolocation services provided by the browser or license a third-party lookup table? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both?

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens. When web browsers (the programs that can read and interpret HTML) were popularized they were “dumb.” The one big concern many people had was how to constrain the total dominance of Google.

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