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How To Predict The Future

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The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Open source and crowdsourcing principles are well understood: When you get enough talented people working on a problem, especially in an open way, progress comes quickly. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. There will be other layers including place information and open-source data. In April of 2000 there were fears that the AOL / Time Warner merger would create a monopoly on the Internet.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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For example, Redmine — an open source developer productivity tool — is commonly installed at individual companies. I keep a list of my best work curated. First startup I worked at was in 2000, I found a compromised system and recommended exactly the above. It will get worse before it gets better. Recent Posts.

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