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4 Reasons Gen Z Will Rule The Tech World By 2020

YoungUpstarts

With such a strong connection to social media, tech marketers will start to focus their campaigns on social networks more than they do now. Moreover, social networks will evolve in accordance with Gen Z’s preference since they now outnumber Millennials, making them the largest consumer-based focus group.

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Monetizing Social Networks: The Four Dominant Business Models and How You Should Implement Them in 2010

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The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. For instance, LivingSocial is an application where users can make a list of their favorite things.

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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. Your mileage may vary. Real-time Communication (internal and external). Hipchat – Intra-company chat with history (+mobile). Administration.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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The Chief Technology Officer matches new technological capabilities with business needs, and documents that match so the business can decide whether to use the new technology or not. Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up. ► 2007.

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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. He can help you determine whether to outsource development (locally or overseas) or build an inhouse team. But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

The web that we are all used to is a web of documents where we search for things inside of documents. The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. 4) social network anaysis enabled by Annotations and linked data. 5) tools and techniques for end-user application development. The Semantic Web.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

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.&# The Future is Bright Whether it’s through a framework, via an application wrapper or as the basis for a mobile web app, HTML5 is going to continue to be an important driving force for mobile application development. Are you using HTML5 when building mobile apps?