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Feld.com Automagically Upgraded To HTTPS By Pantheon

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With major media sites such as NYTimes.com joining the movement, now over half of all web requests are served securely to the browser. In this new era of state sponsored hacking and fully professionalized cybercrime, it is heartening to see engineers get seriously organized and tackle something on the scale of securing the entire web.

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Implementing Social Media’s Secret Weapon

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Fred Wilson had an excellent post up this morning titled Social Media’s Secret Weapon – Email. I completely agree that email is the key communications channel for social media and have written about this before in posts like 100% Click Through Rate , Email – The Original Social Graph and Email Is Still The Best Login.

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The Predictable Flood of Politics Oriented Web Startups

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I received at least one email a day last week pitching a politics oriented web startup. The web and social media are critical tools for any candidate. The emails start off something like this. Over $8 billion dollars will be spent on the upcoming 2012 election.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

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She uses the web, Yahoo mail, and Facebook, impressive feats in themselves for someone her age. They didn’t just “grow up with social media,” they grew up with “social media that constantly changes.” My mother is 86 years old. They have grown up in a world where technology changes rapidly.

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The Awesomeness of a Hackathon

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I’ve seen things like help systems, new web sites, better customer support processes, better management of social media activity, and lots of business process stuff created and implemented during hackathons. Not all of the hackathon projects need to be about code. After the hackathon is over, publicize what you’ve done to the world.

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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. I also like to calculate these figures myself, even though you can research similar data on the web.

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FullContact Connect – The Future of Customer Intelligence

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The goal of the conference is to get together professionals in marketing, media, customer intelligence, and other roles which focus on knowing and serving their customers better. As an industry, we’ve learned a lot about this over the past decade since web 2.0 started to emerge. started to emerge.