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Why Bitcoin is Gaining Worldwide Popularity

The Startup Magazine

Efficient Peer-to-Peer Network of Bitcoin. Bitcoin was conceptualised in 1998 by Satoshi Nakamoto (thought to be possibly a pseudonym), however, the first official Bitcoin transaction did not occur until January 12th, 2009 when Florida programmer Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 Bitcoins for two Papa John’s pizzas (Dowling 2013).

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4 Reasons For Creating Your Brand Online On Your Own Land

Brandanew

If an influencer is working with you, you need to be able to use that to propel and amplify you brand presence further and get in-roads into their customers and communities too. Your article may be taken off line, the communities become irrelevant. And worse: the network itself may die (remember Google owned Orkut?).

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

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Serial CEO Judy Estrin On Startups and Innovation

ReadWriteStart

She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years. Her first startup was Bridge Communications, an early networking company that she built to more than 400 people. Estrin is somewhat down on the venture community.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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ProductionHUB Helps You Search For Media Production Professionals

YoungUpstarts

Developed in 1998, this vertical B2B and entertainment industry portal has grown to become the world’s largest and most active production community search site and as well as a fast growing freelance network of film, television, video, digital media and live event professionals. The site sees over 3.5

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