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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

At the time we heralded in a new era where “gatekeepers” were no longer going to shape stories to the public and “democratic news” would reign freely. Video is the new HTML.” I asked Jonah about his decision to get so heavily into the news business, which seemed as a big departure from “snackable content.”

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

Weve done our best, but we are not experts in most of them so help is welcome! Hopefully an expert in JRuby can help us here. Why doesnt your test include more substantial algorithmic work, or building an HTML response with a server-side template?" Hopefully weve helped with one aspect of that. Motivation. frameworks.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

We''ve done our best, but we are not experts in most of them so help is welcome! Hopefully an expert in JRuby can help us here. Why doesn''t your test include more substantial algorithmic work, or building an HTML response with a server-side template?" Hopefully we''ve helped with one aspect of that. Motivation.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. Cool Car Pools for example, an application to help co-workers locate each other that they could carpool with, demoed an entire use case for us. Just shows to the growth in the Santa Monica area with people like the CoLoft helping to fuel the ecosystem.&#.

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

Tech Zulu Event

Assignmint is a web-based platform to list freelancing work for employers and help writers find the right freelance job for them and standardizes the paperwork between the two parties. Standardizing the paperwork is our goal to help free up everybody to work on what matters. I believe we can help do that. Digital media?

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

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people!

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

SoCal Delicious

This article is a practical guide designed to help webmasters who already know what they want to block. As I mentioned toone user who asked me for help, trying to block all undesirable bots from your site is like trying to rid the world of pests.Swat one, and another few will take its place. Should I Use PHP or HTML for My Website?

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