Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! There are 20x more consumers online.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2010

The Semantic Web enables a web of data, which makes the web appear as a giant global database. Five years ago, the open-source Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) project was started to create software to enable a new type of wiki-based environment based on these principles. The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic.

Semantic 86

Semantic Web Wiki Guatemala 86

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Unify Project The Unify Project is a set of tools designed to make it easier for developers to create smartphone apps using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Sponsored by Deutsche Telekom, Unify is published under a dual open source license (MIT and Apache version 2.0) Are you using HTML5 when building mobile apps? startupcto

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Developer HTML API Ruby 93

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Superficially it sort of worked, but the underlying code is so full of fundamental coding errors (God classes, SQL Injection opportunities, massive global dependencies etc.)

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