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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. Centralized computing was giving way to smart, distributed devices. Sound familiar?

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Distribution – A New Foundry Group Theme

Feld Thoughts

We’ve put up a post on the Foundry Group site about a new theme of ours we are calling Distribution. There’s a software layer that “glues&# this together. Protocol : Many protocols – both formal and informal ones – support extensive software ecosystems. Glue : Computers love to talk to one another.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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8 Must Have Tools For Your Next App Build

YoungUpstarts

Adding the right tools and automation, teams can design, test, build, and deploy software more agilely. There are plenty of open source software and commercial software solutions that DevOps teams are using to accelerate app development. Another software platform using containers is Docker. Automation also saves time.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

It’s more than just a distribution channel. At G2 , for example, we learned that a query syntax like “free [software name]” can’t be solved with a filter on a category page. Users don’t want to come to a page and click on a filter to see free software; they want access only to free solutions when they search for them.

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

They pronounced “The End of Software.&# It was typical Marc Benioff marketing hyperbole but it was very effective. We had all worked in the software industry for a decade and saw the problems of on-premise software. We evangelized to customer about the problems of on premise software. - You have a data problem.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. Mostly, I sell software. Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. Software security does, in general, suck. Greatest Hits. Standing Invitation. Start Here If You’re New.

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