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Demo and Startup City

Demo is a conference that showcases new ideas. The idea is that people with startup ideas get 6 minutes to pitch their ideas. What's the payoff for them? Investors, of course. What's the payoff for us? There's a website with a live feed and we can watch the action on the web! Surf to www.demo.com today beginning at 9:00AM PST and be a…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 28, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

The Making of Swampcast





The Making of Swampcast ::: A video documenting the history and production of Swampcast, a podcast about "Software development, emerging technology and everything else!"

 

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Added by Michael Levin on February 25, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

Net Neutrality ::: Updated!

"The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for…

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Added by Michael Levin on February 23, 2011 at 4:30pm — 7 Comments

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