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Opinioneated.com On The Singapore Food Blogosphere

YoungUpstarts

That obsession with food had inspired Jon Yongfook Cockle to put together, as a weekend hacking experiment , a website that does a take on content aggregation around food reviews. Prior to that, Yongfook founded and sold off his own recipe social network Open Source Food. “The man is an eating machine!

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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

The name of the game now is quality content which keeps viewers watching past the golden 1-minute mark. Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. Niche-Based Social Networks. Raul Pla , SimpleWifi and UseABoat.

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Post-Crisis Digital Trends That Will Reshape Your Business in 2020

Up and Running

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. As of today, IoT applications are present in the manufacturing, automotive, agriculture, energy sector, logistics, and hospitality industries, to name a few. Cybersecurity.

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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

. ” Devotees to the “culture-as-brand” school of startup are loathe to admit that there’s sometimes a downside to too many company-wide discussions — namely that they can fall off the rails. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events.”

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How Hashtags Can Supercharge Small Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

But to use hashtags effectively, you must do more than just plug them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. When a person adds a hashtag to their post, that hashtag is indexed by social networks and the content becomes more easily searchable and discoverable by others.

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

The name is a bit misleading - you don't actually have to be young, but your project does. Among other activities and programs, Silicon Sentier runs La Cantine , a coworking center, hip geek hangout and bustling hub for Paris tech events and activities: barcamps, workshops, competitions, launch parties, press conferences - you name it.

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