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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

The most common analogies I’ve been considering with the current wave of generative AI are blockchain, self-driving cars, and Web 2.0. This is not dissimilar to the explosion of applications we saw in the mid-2000’s fueled by declining computing costs, cloud infrastructure, and social platforms. There are two reasons for this.

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4 Questions To Ask Before You Hire An App Developer

YoungUpstarts

Does the app development company talk about web apps? Instead the needs of your users and your business could be met via an app that is accessed using the phone’s internet browser. Guy Cooper is Managing Director of Wave Digital , an Australian app development company founded in 2000. encounters delays.

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

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet.

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Boston’s WebInno Is Now BIG

Genuine VC

Back in June, the local Boston tech community together celebrated the ten year anniversary of the Web Innovators Group, affectionately known as “WebInno.” Originally, I had invited a dozen or so internet entrepreneurs to a Cambridge bar where we crammed into the back room wearing hand-drawn nametags. Yes, WebInno is becoming BIG.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Use Case II: Decentralized Data Network (Web 3) . Instead, we’ll own our own identity via LSATs.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Accessing the Internet on a phone was doable, but the experience was pretty bad. 1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks. You would upload files to the server as static Web pages. Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up. A look at how CMS evolved.

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The Golden Age of the Boston Internet Entrepreneur

Genuine VC

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Reactions when I told people I was an “internet entrepreneur” ranged from smirks to blank stares.

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