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Social Discovery Is Pushing Search and Social Closer

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Persistent rumors of a Facebook search engine, Google s efforts to integrate Google+ into its search results and Microsofts addition of Facebook tagging into Bing results. and tagged with. The First Open Source Private Cloud Software Arrives. Small Copyleft.next Open Source Software License Project Attracts Big Interest.

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Vertical Markets 1: Bad Advice – All Startups are the Same « Steve.

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The next week another team, working on a new type of solid oxide fuel cell, remarked, “Professor Blank, in our industry there’s a ton of patents and stuff and people tell us we shouldn’t be out there unless we start patent protecting all our IP.” In clean tech nanomaterials you guys need to be talking to patent attorneys.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

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Content providers and owners facing diminishing revenues from their SD sales, due to increasing demand for HD content, can now restore the full economic value of their vast archives, by transforming them to True HD. Cell Buddy’s patent pending Virtual SIM technology allows you to continue using your regular phone and your original number.

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SuperMac War Story 10: The Video Spigot « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Where appropriate, patent or secure intellectual property by other means. Experience Five years experience directing IT; a further five years software engineering management or operations management experience ; and two years experience in a start-up or highly entrepreneurial environment.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. As I said in The Five Minute Guide to Becoming a Freelance Software Developer , an accountant is not an optional expense.

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How to Compete Against Open Source Competition

Software By Rob

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.