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The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr

This is going to be BIG.

Enter the collaborative web--where people get together to actively create, build things and solve problems. The collaborative web arrived after the social web hit a tipping point. The seminal application of the collaborative web--Github--was launched in April 2008. Need to find a collaborator?

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

The topic of the conference was “The Sharing Economy” and as I read many of the session title descriptions I realized that people would be talking more about “collaborative consumption” (think airbnb, taskrabbit, uber) than about why people are sharing more on Instragram & Snapchat. Network Up. Prices down.

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Chegg Donates $50K to Stevens Institute of Technology, Fueling Student Innovation

American Entrepreneurship

At the same time, Launchpad@Stevens supports student innovation by providing mentorship, funding, and networking opportunities. Chegg, a leading student-first online learning platform, has contributed to advancing student innovation by donating $50,000 to Stevens Institute of Technologys iSTEM and Launchpad@Stevens programs.

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Setting Kids Up to Fail

This is going to be BIG.

You''re required to be a lot more entrepreneurial, which requires you to build your own networks in order to get customers and collaborators, since these functions won''t be under the roof of a big company anymore. The world we''re heading into requires a highly visible, highly network, flexible risk taker with a global perspective.

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DC’s New Innovation Hub, STATION DC, Opens Membership Applications

American Entrepreneurship

In a significant move to cement Washington, DCs reputation as a national hub for technology and innovation, STATION DC has officially opened applications for General Membership and its exclusive Delta Force cohort. A Robust Network of industry leaders, policymakers, military officials, and investors working across high-impact sectors.

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The Underwhelmingness of Facebook

This is going to be BIG.

Wikipedia is probably the greatest thing humans have ever collaborated to produce online. Facebook, despite the fact that I use it everyday, is probably the online network I could most easily do without. Facebook used to have network pages where you could explore people you didn''t know. Venture Capital & Technology'

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The Business of Who Makes is Changing

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GrabCAD helps CAD designers collaborate and leverage off of each other''s libraries. something that many creatives feel about technology, that for all it has given us is has also robbed us of expressiveness and the ease of making. Venture Capital & Technology' Etsy is a marketplace for things you make.