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How to Choose a Programming Language as a Tech Startup

The Startup Magazine

If you have a solid proof of concept and aren’t being pressured by investors , then you have more freedom to focus on building a scalable architecture. Its home is on the internet, where the language has been used to create everything from content management systems such as WordPress to massive social networks such as Facebook.

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Overcoming The Struggles Of Enterprise Mobility

YoungUpstarts

Back in the early days of personal computers and workstations, the average developer only had to worry about applications that ran standalone on the client machine, or during the early days of the internet, client/server apps.

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The Case For Web-Based Mobile Apps – An Interview With UR Mobile

YoungUpstarts

As small businesses increasingly look towards mobile applications as a marketing strategy to reach their customers, the question some of them are asking is this: Is it better to go with a native application (i.e. Google is projecting that by 2016, about 80-percent of all internet users will access the web using a smartphone browser.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

The Long Awaited Arrival of the Internet Boom. The short answer is that the expectations of the great Internet boom vastly outstripped the actual activity. The total Consumer Internet market was 55 million people. Constrained by such an early and weak technology platform, companies built poor applications.

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HTML5: 10 Provocative Predictions For The Future

readwrite.com

Like the “Made for Internet Explorer” badges of the 1990s, developers are now proudly advertising “Made for Chrome” in their apps. In exchange for potentially alienating some users, developers building for Chrome can more aggressively leverage HTML5 APIs and save valuable development and testing time. Not using Chrome?

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I decided to go back through the Wayback Machine to figure out what Buddy has called itself over the years: 7/27/2007 – Application Developer: Buddy Media is the leading developer of applications for the emerging new media platforms, including Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Try Google.