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4 Reasons Gen Z Will Rule The Tech World By 2020

YoungUpstarts

Surprisingly, 42% of Gen Z claims that social media directly influences how they feel about themselves and how they see the world. With such a strong connection to social media, tech marketers will start to focus their campaigns on social networks more than they do now. Going mobile. The growth of on-demand economy.

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Managing Social Media With Fetch Plus

YoungUpstarts

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. Fetch Plus is founded by 32-year old Carmen Benitez , who acts as its president and managing director.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). Then came blogs. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web.

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How Not To Run Your Own Technology Startup

YoungUpstarts

P.S. Three types of external providers are not mentioned because they are well known: open-source software stacks, domain name (DNS) providers, and marketing/social networking sites. WordPress – Corporate website, blogging. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external).

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. Of course, this draconian measure does not work; employees can blog under another name, or contribute to a wiki pseudonymously. Varieties of Social Networking: FaceBook, LinkedIn.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

With the pending arrival of the iPhone 5 in September, as well as new tablets from Amazon, Microsoft and Apple expected in the fall, the world is progressively mobile first and the Windows duopoly has been completely cracked, resulting in more end user computing device application development in the last two years than in the previous 10.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. If you are a technology consultant and your name should be on this list, add a comment to this blog entry or contact me directly. See my blog post, Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO.