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Why Google Fiber? Moat-widening Endeavor & Future of Computing.

Tech Zulu Event

To understand that assertion, let’s observe how and when Google encroached on each layer of the technology value chain required to access any web service. Web browser – even a functional computer with an OS isn’t enough to access most Google services. 02 per Google search, and provided Yahoo for free.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Does Facebook have a permanent dominance of the future given their 500m users?

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

Both Sides of the Table

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. We were on services called CompuServe and Prodigy. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. GeoCities, Tripod & Yahoo!

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. It’s hosted by Rackspace, which is a hosting service that obviously doesn’t care much about its reputation. Do you really believe that I don’t care about machine time?