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How Mobile Phones Can Help Tackle The World’s Literacy Problems

YoungUpstarts

Some countries around the globe aren’t in such a fortunate position: Afghanistan, for example, has one of the lowest literacy rates in the world, with only 28.1 Louise Miller graduated from LSE in 2011 with an MA in engineering and is currently setting up her own web design business. Instead, it’s taken as a fact; 96.6 In fact, 92.5

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Customer Experiences Go Viral on Social Media Platforms

Duct Tape Marketing

According to a post that went viral on Facebook, a little girl’s father was in Afghanistan and ordered a bouquet that came with a necklace for his daughter to be delivered on Valentine’s Day. When the flowers were delivered, a necklace was not included. If You Liked This Post.

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Out of the Crisis #18: Sal Khan on institution building, solving the digital divide, and education as the lever for all decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

have these stories of kids who are in Taliban-controlled, Afghanistan, and young girls were forbidden from going to school who are using Khan Academy in that way. I remember we were trying to translate those documents onto the web as fast as we could, and teach our volunteers how to use them. You fast forward to about 2009.

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Wordpress.com Founder Matt Mullenweg: The Cloud is Marketing Speak

www.readwriteweb.com

Words of Wisdom Posted by: Steve | February 24, 2010 1:22 PM Back in my day we used to call these things web applications, n-tier apps, or even multi-tier apps hosted by an application service provider (ASP). Start believing your invincible or to big to fail and your asking for trouble.

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Wordpress.com Founder Matt Mullenweg: The Cloud is Marketing Speak

www.readwriteweb.com

Words of Wisdom Posted by: Steve | February 24, 2010 1:22 PM Back in my day we used to call these things web applications, n-tier apps, or even multi-tier apps hosted by an application service provider (ASP). Start believing your invincible or to big to fail and your asking for trouble.

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We Have Only Scratched the Surface of the True Value of Twitter. Here’s What You’re Missing

Both Sides of the Table

Who are you on the web? It’s almost like the web equivalent of Facebook Connect. On the web each website wants you to log in to their website using a proprietary user name and password. Here’s three important things to know about Twitter’s future that are more nuanced than “what am I eating for lunch?”

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