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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

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What is the Tech City Investment Organization? Andrew Humphries: The Tech City Investment Organization or TCIO is the result of an initiative announced by David Cameron, the Prime Minister in November of 2010. Second thing that we do is encourage large organizations, companies like Google, Intel and Facebook, to invest in Tech City.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. End users don’t care about the technical details anyway, so there has been some interesting work on standards for social activity streams and activity stream aggregation. The standard to watch is activity strea.ms

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Innovative Services Are A Huge Boon For Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, we all love disruptive new products, like the Pebble Smart Watch and Google Glass, but recent innovative services startups, including Uber for transportation and Airbnb for lodging, have grown much bigger and faster. These range from extended warranties, to home delivery and setup, to on-site technical support.

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