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

Austin Startup

Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). After reading the wonderful blogpost on the BBC’s dynamic semantic publishing system , it reminded me that the Semantic Web has two audiences: the common web user (my mom) and developers.

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10 Recent Neuromarketing Research Studies (and Their Real-World Takeaways)

ConversionXL

Brain activity was the only successful predictor of crowdfunding outcomes: “Neither average ratings of project likeability nor of perceived likelihood of success were associated with Internet funding outcomes.”. Only [Nucleus accumbens, or NAcc,] activity generalized to forecast market funding outcomes weeks later on the Internet.”.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate.

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12 Questions: Meet Pamela Harvey (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

And I am now officially a web designer as well. I have also out of necessity adapted to the influence of the Internet, where horizontal logo alignment seems to rule. Now, lately, it has become entirely possible for me to twist my look, like a pretzel, into a webby Internet style.

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26 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Industries That Are Ripe For Disruption

Hearpreneur

I've volunteered and worked for non-profits in a variety of countries on projects ranging from an organic olive oil operation to a permaculture demonstration site to a forestry project in western Guatemala's mountains. A lot is happening in the staffing industry, thanks to new and disruptive technology and the proliferation of the internet.