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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat , Thomas Friedman recognizes that the Internet has the ability to create a “level playing field” for all participants, and one where geographic distances become less relevant. Launched in 2005, Etsy is a leading marketplaces for the exchange of vintage and handmade items. annual GMV.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

What Google’s Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business. Ever since Google started naming its algorithm updates after furry black and white creatures, we’ve been inundated with talks of pandas and penguins, and how they’re taking down websites one ranking at a time. Google changes its algorithm about 500 times a year.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

My entry into web development (after 7 years of Unix development, 4 writing console games, and 3 writing router firmware) was helping my father-in-law’s company. I gather you assume that everyone’s a web developer? of computers, that for various reasons can’t be a web page” a good reason?

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

These days, successful programming is as much about processing data as creating algorithms. I personally think that the opinion about PHP in the web-developer community is way too negative. Python is good for system administration, PHP is great for Web development. If you are a Web developer, PHP is powerful.

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