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Twitter Link Roundup #36 – Design, Copywriting, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Government releases open source code – [link]. Check out this photo of a volcano in Iceland—it’s crazy! I guess they liked the eye patch! – [link]. 8 Crazy-Cool Search Engines You Should Know – [link]. Very cool – U.S. – [link]. An entrepreneur’s guide to crowdsourcing – [link].

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The Magic of the Irish – Dublin’s Resurgence on the Global Tech Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Its banks has Lehman-brother-esque collapse situation on their had and rather than letting the banks go backrupt or splitting the losses between the bond holders and the tax payers, the Irish government inexplicably agreed to guarantee all debt and restructure the banks at the expense of the Irish citizens.

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Megaupload and the Future of Multi-tenant Services

Feld Thoughts

I continue to be stunned and amazed by both the behavior of our government around this and the behavior of “us” (companies and individuals) around their data given our government’s behavior. And – it’s not just the government, but mother nature and humans.

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Bitcoin Emerges as New Standard in Post-COVID Economy?

ReadWriteStart

The internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government,” he said at the time. The Icelandic krona suffered a similar fate after that country’s financial collapse in 2008. Friedman, whom I quoted above, presciently linked the rise of e-cash with the central role of the internet in governing our lives.

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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Smart cities are a new approach to urban development. Rapid urbanization is a crisis.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

And then, once that curve is low enough, governments can dance, testing and tracking cases until the virus is eradicated or we develop a working vaccine. They didn't have experience buying bulk from the government things like masks or ventilators." For example, Santa Clara had a community-spread case early in March.