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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

This was not so illogical as most companies didn’t even run TCP/IP—they ran proprietary networking protocols such as AppleTalk, Netbios, and SNA. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

ConversionXL

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” There are tons of possibilities.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Because she understood the potential for IP-based syndicated content technology, Alex started searching for new and useful ways to put this technology to use. The combination is amazing.

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Do Movies Even Matter Anymore?

Growthink Blog

The movie business of today is all "pre-sold" IP. In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. Toy Story 3? Karate Kid 3? Iron Man 2? Sex and The City 2? The A-Team? Where are all of the NEW Ideas in Entertainment?

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + My first company was a SaaS software company started in 1999. Launch a closed iTunes / iTV? They’ll find a way around them.

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Episode 106: Implementing Profit First With Frank DeBenedetto and Ralph M. Rivera

Mike Michalowicz

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. Welcome to Episode 106 of the Profit First Podcast! Our Guests. Ralph Rivera.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. The truth is the mixed economy model is what has provided the greatest distribution of wealth the world has ever seen. It was difficult to conceive how important the internet would be to our lives back in the mid 1990s. But when the web 2.0