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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

How about a person who moves here from Boston but keeps his Boston phone number on his SmartPhone and uses it to surf the web and order “software?” That has huge implications for virtually any business, whose software purchases and implementations are infinitely more complex than a person downloading TurboTax from the Web.

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How I Blog

Duct Tape Marketing

It’s reference to the fact that the software was created as a tool for developers to log what they done while working on a project and easily share that over the web with other developers – thus a weblog. Google XML Sitemaps - helps push content to search engines. I’m on my 5th theme currently.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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How To Blog Like A Pro

Altgate

Sitemaps are a “poor man’s semantic web.&# Basically it creates a map of your blog that computers can understand. I used this free service called XML-Sitemaps to create site maps for Google, Yahoo and MSN (naturally the standards vary) and overnight I saw a jump in natural search traffic. Learn web basics.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. At first weexpected our customers to be Web consultants. Does your productuse XML? )

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

blog.expensify.com

I was just looking at your web site. I do everything from raw-metal machine language to experimental languages to all the usual web front and back-end languages, and am one of those “started programming at 12 years old” types who had 5 years of college by the time I was 19. March 25, 2011 at 2:51 pm. I’m with Phil.

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