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

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In it he asserts that the web is dying and in its ashes will see the rise of the “App Internet.” The web is dying and will be replaced by “the App Internet.” Enter the World Wide Web (WWW). As George appropriately describes in his video, the Internet and the Web are two different, but related things.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

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We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. At least in the consumer & business web.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. It has existed on the tethered web for some time and open and free platforms like Open X have gained much traction. And this part of the product is entirely free to use.

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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

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The costs to start are much lower than ever (90% reduction in infrastructure costs to start a company through open source & web services) and large companies being created in many geographies. Think DropBox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Maker Studios, SnapChat, Tinder).

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. And the future?

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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There was no open source, no code repositories like GitHub, no knowledge hubs like StackExchange. The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. “But you’re in the business group!?!” ” F**k.

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