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Bitcoin: things only grow this fast when something important is happening

The Equity Kicker

In around 2002 I was stuck in my hotel room in Egypt due to food poisoning and the only English TV available was an American business channel. You can see from the chart below that the number of internet hosts grew 10x from 1989 to 1993 – that’s roughly 2x a year. I forget which it was. Startup general interest'

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Soundbites from the future

Start Up Blog

There are 5 senses, and we still can’t experience 3 of them on the internet – so we must complete the connection / transaction off line…. The internet is trying to mimic the real world. The internet is in every second pocket. They’re happy to facilitate revolution in Moldova, Iran, Egypt and Libya. GENERATION D (Digital).

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20 Best TED Talks For Students Of Social Media

YoungUpstarts

And social media frequently makes news, including when it accelerated the uprising in Egypt this year. Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy. The Internet gets a bad rap for making people closed off, and sometimes, it’s true. Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s take back the Internet.