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

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Fred Wilson recently posted a great video on his blog with the CEO of Forrester Research, George Colony. 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.”

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Cojoin | Data Integration

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Matt Weghorst: Cojoin is a data integration platform. We find that there’s all this really specialized software, software as a service, certain platforms, and different places you can do marketing; all of those have their own sets of data. Is it only a web-platform or will there be a mobile-version?

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Again, at this stage you are still primarily driven by qualitative research and ideas, and it’s hard for analytics to drive much of your thinking. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries. « Open mobile platforms and Facebook developer refugees.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses. This is where I see cryptocurrencies today.

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

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I would see this many times of the next decade where I learned that nearly every part of the web that involved monetization was immediately gamed and arms races emerged between platforms to combat abuse and people looking for a quick buck. In fact, the platforms weren’t always so quick to crack down as many of them benefitted financially.

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