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More Thoughts on Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

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A few weeks ago I read Jaron Lanier’s Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. He makes a reasonable case (obviously with a lot of room to dispute individual points) that social media is “bad” in general and a source of concern. The second concern is that he conflates Google with social media.

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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Who will sell the advertising space in our brains? What OS will they run? From what app store will I get my neural apps?

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Q316 State of Venture Capital Update With Cooley

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In addition to creating some certainty about the dynamics in our government going forward, it’ll also result in a decrease of political advertising in all media, which I generally think will enhance my life although some adtech and media companies will be bummed out about it. Beyond that, I have no real clue about the macro.

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Triggit Is Looking for Serious C / C++ / Hadoop Devs in San Francisco

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Triggit is one of a group of recently emerging companies called demand side platforms (DSP ) that provide technology to advertisers enabling them to buy display media across millions of websites.

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In-Text Links Are Just The Tip Of The Iceberg In Web Publishing

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The investment was an obvious one for us as it fits squarely in our Adhesive theme given the deep relationships LinkSmart has with big media and web platforms as a provider of analytics and traffic management software. My partner Seth Levine sits on the board and wrote about his view of LinkSmart.

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