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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. Users were outraged. “The Internet is free, you can’t make money off it! I know that it sounds weird to those that don’t remember those days but people were pissed off that the Internet was becoming commercialized. It’s for all of us.

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How to Build the Next Huge Mobile App

Lightspeed Venture Partners

The advent and growth of social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and, now, Pinterest has heralded a new era in the Internet where people are connected to one another to share, discover, curate, and collaborate. However unlike the intent oriented desktop Internet search, the mobile platform is about discovery.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. What’s the ROI? Final thought. To have a birth requires a funeral.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

From time to time, Ill address information technology, and how it impacts business and daily life. A business that sells information technology uses the CTO to articulate how the new technology can address business needs for its prospects. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was years behind Netscape. information security. (1).

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

In 2012, most everyone takes the Internet for granted and believes its emergence to be a logical, evolutionary step. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. What’s the ROI? Final thought. To have a birth requires a funeral.'

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Internet usage a decade ago was less than 1 hour per day and was restricted to narrowband communications.

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

Austin Startup

The Semantic Web is already changing the way we search, do SEO, find information, integrate data and create web applications. I will illustrate the technology with several examples of different applications which have been built using SMW. Feeds help share and reuse content, but only provide simple streams of information.