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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Everybody is now payment ready.

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Intro to Blockchain: Why You Can’t Miss Out

The Startup Magazine

Hundreds of similar events are taking place globally. But the Fintank event brought together a far-reaching group of users, developers, and influencers to tackle the current and future state of this game-changing technology. Collaborative platforms are also already developing, focused on the non-permissioned structures.

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HTML5: 10 Provocative Predictions For The Future

readwrite.com

It shows the most potential to challenge Android as the “more open” (read: more customizable) open source device platform, which should appeal to device makers. Made For Chrome(kit). A growing number of sites are once again buildiing Web apps tested to work in only one browser. Share on Twitter. Share on LinkedIn. Todd Anglin.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Unify Project The Unify Project is a set of tools designed to make it easier for developers to create smartphone apps using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. Sponsored by Deutsche Telekom, Unify is published under a dual open source license (MIT and Apache version 2.0) Are you using HTML5 when building mobile apps? startupcto

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

Austin Startup

The Semantic Web enables a web of data, which makes the web appear as a giant global database. Five years ago, the open-source Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) project was started to create software to enable a new type of wiki-based environment based on these principles. 5) tools and techniques for end-user application development.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet. Microsoft has always produced the best tools for building internal business applications, and.NET is their masterpiece. Checkout [link].net

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

If you want the site to translate ancient Arabic poetry to Spanish to increase global tolerance, just say, “Translate paragraphs from Arabic to Spanish.” Superficially it sort of worked, but the underlying code is so full of fundamental coding errors (God classes, SQL Injection opportunities, massive global dependencies etc.)