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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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Software Development | How To Collaborate As A Team

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As a creative director at a software development company, I am always looking for ways to speed up our design and development process and to include as many people and teams working on the project. It works great with Gmail and Google Apps, and if you pay for it you have the ability to collaborate with others on your team.

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

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As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. We ran software on the PCs called “terminal emulation” that allowed us to act like a dumb terminal to interact with mainframes and to act like a PC (with word processing, spreadsheets, etc.

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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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SweetLabs Awards $50K To App Developers

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San Diego-based SweetLabs , the developer of the Pokki desktop app software, reported Wednesday that it has awarded $50,000 in its Pokki Challenge, a contest for encouraging developers to create desktop applications using HTML5. SweetLabs reported it received 60 apps over the six week challenge, which are now available on its site.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. HTML will get you modern browsers, but won't work on old browsers.

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Los Angeles Web Developer

SoCal CTO

My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles web developer, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.” The result of web design are static pages as graphics or HTML. The LA CTO Forum , which I help organize, has more than 100 Software/Web CTOs from all sorts of companies.