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Does Moore’s Law Suddenly Matter Less?

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A post in the New York Times this morning asserted that Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law. The web services dynamic – where we access things through a browser – built a UI layer in front of the hardware infrastructure. Now do the same with FoxPro on each. The numbers will startle you.

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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 also like to calculate these figures myself, even though you can research similar data on the web. Read Gotham: The History of New York City to 1898.) Had one plotted the trend over time, soon cities like New York were going to be buried under horse manure.

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The Price of Free is Actually Too High

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I loved this quote by Tristin Harris in the New York Magazine article The Internet Apologizes …. ” The article ends with a parallel quote from Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web. The web that many connected to years ago is not what new users will find today.

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Looking For A Design HackStar for Startup Revolution

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I’m starting to integrate a bunch of new stuff into the Startup Revolution site now that I’ve finished book #2: Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur. I’m looking for someone with web design chops who has experience with WordPress to work with me on some stuff.

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TechStars Show On Bloomberg TV

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We’ve done lots of video that’s up on the web, including the awesome Founders Series ( 2010 and 2009 ) that our friend Megan Sweeney did with us. Last year we decided to work with Bloomberg on a six episode project documenting the first TechStars New York program. TechStars Trailer 8/01 from Vortex Media on Vimeo.

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Internet Performance on Christmas Morning

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Amy and I got into our pajamas and drove 10 miles to the nearest Starbucks to get a physical New York Times (my gift to her for putting up with me not wanting to do Christmas.) I started my daily information routine around 11am and immediately thought to myself “boy things are slow today.” My local performance was fine.

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Did Tech Companies Ever Have Our Best Interests At Heart?

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An adapted essay from Noam Cohen new book The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball showed up several weeks in the New York Times in the article Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend. When Web 2.0 It’s here.