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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

It isn’t open in either its standards or in the way that applications are marketed and distributed. In other words, our mobile devices are all powerful and the network that they connect into sucks. Social networking is peaking. the rest of the time. I will cover this in my post. Sound familiar? For 5 minutes.

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[Interview] RIM Eyes Southeast Asia’s Developer Scene

YoungUpstarts

Within Asia, Southeast Asia has one of the largest number of BlackBerry developers who are actively creating content and applications for the region as well as the rest of the world. The BBM SDK allows very unique social features to existing and new applications, including the ability to distribute and share applications virally through BB.

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What The iPad Means For Media Distribution In The Future

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Many years ago (almost five years ago in fact) I wrote an article about what the music industry might look like in a digital distributed world. My premise was that thanks to networked portable devices and the Long Tail , bands would survive because distribution networks would allow them to reach their fans much easier.

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The Intellectual Social Network

Start Up Blog

Quora is quickly becoming my preferred social network to ‘invest’ time in. Github – software engineers will pay monthly fees for the rest of their lives in order to create free software out of other free software! LinkedIn – how about a professional social network, aimed at busy 30- and 40-somethings.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Later, 99Designs was spun off and the rest is history. A notable site is FaceSmash which sold for $30k the week the movie Social Network came out. Even Perez Hilton blogged about Flippa because of its relationship to FaceSmash and Social Network. The name brainstormers got pissed because of this.

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The Best Free Email Marketing Tool for Startups and Small Businesses

Up and Running

I use Mailchimp for the distribution of weekly newsletters, and for list growth via opt-ins for multiple types of campaigns. Social networks come and go, but people always have an inbox—and they want to be connected with people who bring them value. Your email list, however, is your asset. Advanced stats.

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The Energy Revolution is (Finally) Here

Version One Ventures

The rest of the world is doing the same. Although a few full-service distributed energy installation companies have enjoyed success (e.g. Just as there is no dominant HVAC installation/repair company, I think that the future of solar/storage/other distributed cleantech installation will reside with the long tail of installers.

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