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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. The world is going mobile.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population. Internet usage a decade ago was less than 1 hour per day and was restricted to narrowband communications.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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In it he asserts that the web is dying and in its ashes will see the rise of the “App Internet.” And while the App Internet is currently more powerful than the Mobile Internet it has fundamental flaws. The web is dying and will be replaced by “the App Internet.” He’s right about this.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet. The Past (1985-2002).

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15 Mobile Security Best Practices For SMBs (Or Anyone Else For That Matter)

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It’s hardly a stretch in this day and age to say that everyone in the corporate workforce has a mobile device, whether it is company issued or personal. Here are some mobile security best practices that people can easily implement to protect themselves (and their devices): 1. by Don DeBolt, Total Defense, Inc.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

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As my partner Rob Go has written , our goal is to invest half in consumer web and mobile and half in business-focused ventures. Ecommerce has transcended merely shipping a box to your home — it’s about leveraging mobile plus the internet to create an elegant purchasing experience previously unavailable.