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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. Centralized computing was giving way to smart, distributed devices. Few had considered what happened in a world in which the data was distributed. Distribution becomes a stranglehold. I will cover this in my post.

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Distribution – A New Foundry Group Theme

Feld Thoughts

We’ve put up a post on the Foundry Group site about a new theme of ours we are calling Distribution. We’ve been investing in protocols like SMTP, RSS, XML, and SMS for years and expect to continue doing this. We’ve been investing in this theme for a while but have continued to formulate exactly how we think about it.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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Building Competency in Semantic Web Technology

semanticuniverse.com

Among techies, the Semantic Web bears some similarity to a number of common technologies, including relational databases, XML, and Object-Oriented design. for XML practitioners comes with the shift from thinking about hierarchically structured data in documents to thinking of data as a distributed data structure.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

They had a lock on “distribution&# and were named AOL, Yahoo!, The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. Twitter has become application distribution. Excite, Netscape & MSN.

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8 Must Have Tools For Your Next App Build

YoungUpstarts

Featuring more than 1400 plugins, it is a self-contained Java-based program that can distribute work across multiple machines and platforms to drive builds, tests, and deployments. Gradle has the power and flexibility of Ant with Maven’s ease of use (and without XML). Jenkins also supports CI/CD as well as script automation.

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All Platforms Need a Killer App – Cryptokitties is the one for blockchain

BeyondVC

Going back to webmethods , it was how DHL used WIDL (precursor to XML) to embed tracking information in other websites. plugin to connect our browser to the ethereum blockchain and the world of distributed apps. You need to show users/customers how your platform can solve problems. To get onboarded, we need to start with a Metamask.io

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