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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. Local Press / Websites / Organizational Tools – New York has an amazing startup scene and the energy and momentum is palpable. LA has the annual Monty Conference. NY has a million including the obvious ones like AdWeek.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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This Week in New York Tech - January 11th

This is going to be BIG.

Firsthand perspectives from Semantic Technology in action Semantic technologies promise to change the landscape of the web and enhance the user experience. RSVP: [link] 6:30PM: What the RDF? Like many evolving technologies, there remains a gap between theory and practice.

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Sketching A New Mobile Web

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

Web Design. Sketching A New Mobile Web. The mobile Web has gotten a bum rap. Progressive enhancement, mobile-first and responsive design can help lead us towards a more unified, future-friendly Web. That’s the good news. The Promise Of The Mobile Web Is a Tough Sell. JavaScript. Techniques.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. What We’re Doing: We’re currently setting the groundwork for an innovative educational web application that will eventually fuse with social networking. We are implementing the innovative web 2.0 JS (for web/internet and mobile devices).

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Findings is GitHub for Ideas

This is going to be BIG.

On top of that, the atomic element of the reading experience isn't the book or the post--both of which match the atomic element of the web, the URL. DEVONthink features a clever algorithm that detects subtle semantic connections between distinct passages of text. It is the quote. give us pause and make us think.