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Why Your Business Isn’t Immune To Online Threats

YoungUpstarts

If only you could periodically pump your network or mobile device full of a virtual vaccine. You know, increase your Internet immunity with additional protection from today’s current and emerging online threats. Social networking and email — 16.8%. That pretty much describes a digital booster shot, right? Other — 6.6%.

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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

It’s important to decide which of these approaches you want to take, as some languages are designed to promote stable, scalable architecture, while others are better suited for rapid application development. Applications built with Node.js Java, C# and.net tend to be more stable, while languages such as Ruby on Rails or node.js

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Users were outraged. “The Internet is free, you can’t make money off it! I know that it sounds weird to those that don’t remember those days but people were pissed off that the Internet was becoming commercialized. It’s for all of us.

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How to Build the Next Huge Mobile App

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The advent and growth of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, now, Pinterest has heralded a new era in the Internet where people are connected to one another to share, discover, curate, and collaborate. However unlike the intent oriented desktop Internet search, the mobile platform is about discovery.

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external). Hipchat – Intra-company chat with history (+mobile).

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

, but the evidence would suggest that repositioning the company as social enterprise software was a master stroke. Within days of the launch of the Facebook Platform, Buddy Media launched 7 applications that have been highlighted in the application directory, added by more than 300,000 Facebook users and accessed by millions of others.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. Final thought. To have a birth requires a funeral.

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