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Compete To Death, or Cooperate to Compete?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Allow me to posit that this philosophy is going to change over the next few decades, and further, indulge me as I try to apply a new approach to a very present case study: That of Google, Facebook, and Twitter as it relates to Google’s search index and the two social services’ valuable social interaction datasets.

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A short history of intranets and what's next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

When Tim Berners-Lee and his collaborators first proposed the idea that became the World Wide Web in 1989, he wanted to create a hypertext system that would allow users to: "link and access information of various kinds… [to overcome] current incompatibilities of the platforms and tools.". As early as 1998, Gartner, Inc.

Cloud 89
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A short history of intranets and what next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

When Tim Berners-Lee and his collaborators first proposed the idea that became the World Wide Web in 1989, he wanted to create a hypertext system that would allow users to: "link and access information of various kinds… [to overcome] current incompatibilities of the platforms and tools.". As early as 1998, Gartner, Inc.

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