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The End Of Hand Crafted Content

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Old media loves nothing quite so much as writing about their own impending death. And we always enjoy adding our own two cents – the AP not knowing what YouTube is, the NYTimes guys reading TechCrunch every day, etc.
Speaking broadly, I like what Reuters, Rupert Murdoch and Eric Schmidt are saying: the industry [...]

The Self-managing, ‘Unbreakable’ Internet?

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High-powered internet applications typically need teams of experts to maintain them. Not any more, say European researchers who have built a system to create applications that manage and fix themselves.
Part of the internet’s potential lies in its ability to link hundreds, thousands, or even millions of devices.
Whether a user is [...]

Global Dreams for a Wireless Web

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SITTING on the porch at Finca Torrenova, his 800-acre retreat on this Mediterranean island, Martin Varsavsky ticks off the credentials of the group of Internet entrepreneurs finishing lunch at a nearby table.
“He has 40 million uniques, he has 50 million, and he has 8 million,” Mr. Varsavsky says, referring to the [...]

Why Is The Internet Sometimes So Slow? Internet ‘Black Holes’ May Be To Blame

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You’re trying to log on to a Web site and it’s not working. You try again and again. But persistence doesn’t pay off. The site you want is inexplicably, frustratingly, out of reach.
The other computer might just be turned off, but the causes could be more mysterious. At any given moment, a [...]

What Do Venture Capitalists Know?

The National Venture Capital Association surveyed 170 of its members, and this is their collective wisdom for 2008:
The sectors VCs are most bullish about are Clean Tech, Media, Biotech, and the Internet, in that order:

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