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My first day in Denver was busy and long. In the morning, I took the light rail with a friend from the suburbs downtown. The difference between the outskirts of the city and the downtown area was staggering. Hollowed out factories, run down cars, and strip malls dissolved into a labyrinth of shimmering chrome,…
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It occurred to me recently that web companies, more so than non-tech companies, need to keep in mind that the scalability of their application can go beyond its intended locale. Facebook, for instance, was rather shortsighted when it came to scaling its product internationally. It took several years for them to develop an international, translated…
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Picture this. A powerful, tested military power invades a small, militarily weak country with strong diplomatic ties to the Western powers, including the United States, Britain and France. The invasion of this small country prompts an international outrage. What’s next? For World War II purists, the stage has just been set for a massive international…
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It is often said that ideas are a dime a dozen, and after many attempts to turn seemingly marketable ideas into fluid businesses, many entrepreneurs realize that their brilliant business idea was only good on paper, or maybe was never attractive in the first place. However, even good ideas are a dime a dozen: if…
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So I’ve been spending some time on Google Earth’s Flight Simulator, a little easter egg which was packaged in version 4.2. I found that it was difficult, once airborne, to fly to locations and find runways to land on (the resolution of the runways isn’t good enough until you’re too close to be able to…
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