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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

In in the early 90′s I was in my early 20′s and I programmed on mainframe computers using COBOL, CICS and DB2. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. So Fox ludicrously set up a quasi internal innovation center called Slingshot Labs.

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Who Makes the Money on an Inevitable Shoe Dropping?

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets.

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Interview: James Burnes, Ministry of Awesome

NZ Entrepreneur

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. For us, it was not a good use of money. James Burnes: Well, we started as a result of an earthquake and a city in ruin.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Business writer Gordon Pitts pinpoints 2011 as the game-changing year for the Atlantic startup scene. million USD) through its Atlantic Innovation Fund (AIF). More posts by this contributor.

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

Gust

And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. I think I’m an innovator myself, but I know I’m not an opinion leader. Both products were innovative leaders. I used to think you could use convenience and common sense to predict markets.

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

Other options for workers can be taking collective action, solidarity unionism, forming independent unions, employee resource groups (ERGs), guilds, joining a worker center, new innovations/ideas, etc. and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). Intentionally.