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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth).

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

. “Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. QUALCOMM BUYS MOBILE WEB COMPANY ISKOOT.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Adam has a great affinity for travel, photography, golf, movies, music, and surfing (ok fine, web surfing). Mr. Black came to New York in 2005, founded SustainabiliTV.com, producers of ‘The Business Case for Sustainability’ and produced several important films in Darfur and Nepal.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

Pluggio is a Freemium Twitter web app created by Justin Vincent. About the Author Ruben Gamez is the founder of Bidsketch , web based proposal software for designers. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. 13 Justin Pirie on 08.18.10 42 Ruben on 08.19.10

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Creating Audio Authority One Interview at a Time

Duct Tape Marketing

Podcasts are back in fashion again, but my view of why you should be creating interview style audio content hasn’t changed since I started podcasting back in 2005 or so. Style – Will your show be interview style, 2 host banter style or simply a roundup of ideas from around the web? Marketing podcast with John Lee Dumas.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. We raised $16.5 million in our A round. And so too will be Factual.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

The Internet and World Wide Web themselves emerged from open protocols (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, etc) that allowed businesses, individuals and governments to put information online that was accessible to the masses and then to build applications on top of this infrastructure to the benefit of the masses.