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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art.

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“WHAT WAS ALL THIS VIDEO???” Five Questions with Magic & Loss Author Virginia Heffernan

Hunter Walker

Oh I was so intimidated to meet Virginia Heffernan for the first time. And not just tolerated my fanboy love of YouTube but we grooved about technology, avatars, adolescence and all things Internet. Virginia recently wrote Magic and Loss , an amazing and well-received book about the Internet as art.

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Learn To Code With One Month Rails

YoungUpstarts

“Anyone and everyone can learn to be a web developer and take advantage of the opportunities the Internet presents,” says Mattan Griffel, founder and CEO of One Month Rails. “I had an idea for a product, but could never find that magical person who would build it for me, so I started learning Ruby on Rails on my own. .”

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren’t interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5% of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better. Note: Company headquarters is in Los Angeles with major R&D also happening in Northern Virginia.

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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.” “American democracy was born of no theorist’s dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. Friends from the campaign went on to run Obama’s Internet operation.

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MassChallenge Texas Awards $500,000 to Five Startups

SiliconHills

TRAXyL, a startup that installs high-speed Internet on roadways, received the top prize of $150,000 in cash from MassChallenge Texas in Austin on Thursday night. The company, based in Warrenton, Virginia installs high-speed fiber optic cable on roads, and parking lots.

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There’s an Internet Showdown Brewing

Andrew Payne

Back home in West Virginia, our Verizon phones have no 3G service. This scenario captures a core net neutrality concern: are we moving to an Internet where our access is determined more by business agendas and less by technical issues?