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In 1999, there were 308 technology I.P.O.’s ,,, in 2010 there were just 20. These tech start-ups have real businesses … fast-growing revenue. In 1999 less than 5 percent of the world’s population was online … now broadband Internet and personal computing have become mainstream. 1 in 3 people are online now.

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My 15 Minutes of Fame

Courtesy of 37 Signals, creators of killer apps such as highrise (their crm application), comes my 15 minutes of fame as their spokesman. You’ll find me right here on their website. And it’s no bull. I’ve used highrise, basecamp, backpack, and campfire to communicate with teams accross the country in connection with pending litigation. Yeah, it works. Not only that, the products are easier to use,  more intuitive, and less costly than anything out there with the possible exception of Google Apps, which I also use. But that’s a whole other level of commitment …

As the result of several requests for an easier to read version of the enterprise/web 2.0 blueprint we published here (courtesy of R. Todd Stephens, Ph.D), the pm blog would like to direct interested parties to this link where they can download the blueprint in PDF format. - M. Hedayat

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Can We Fix The Web? — The Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define the Web were last revised in 1999. Since then, the Web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cleverness of the Web development community and the surprising expressive power of JavaScript, but we are at the limits. The Web is no longer a driver of innovation. It is now a serious impediment.

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