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I met with two 20-something budding entrepreneurs this week, just by chance. I love working with and mentoring these young people. There is so much energy and hope to better themselves and make the world a better place too. And so much they need to learn. I thought I would encapsulate some of my advice that I gave them, and perhaps motivate you to reach out to someone you know who is looking to start their own business and send this post their way too.

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Senior Wired Magazine editor Robert Capps penned an article titled "The Good Enough Revolution" for Wired's September 2009 edition. The print edition included the daring (and perhaps intentionally provocative) subtitle "Why lo-fi tech will rule the world."

This rings of an absolutism, and such rings set off our antennae.

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Whether you're Microsoft or Mel's Meat Market, the true power of social media and its impact on brands is really only beginning to be felt. As futurologist Ian Pearson stated in Gartner's Customer Relationship Management Summit earlier this year, the rapid pace of change in technology means that companies need to focus on agility instead of just optimization when it comes to integrating social media and CRM applications.

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From mobile computing to multi-touch, user interfaces continue to evolve, becoming part of our daily lives. As a Web host, it's with great interest that we're also following the "10-foot user experience," an idea that emerged a few years ago and has been much talked about since. But technology now seems to be catching up to this exciting concept, thanks to innovators like Frog Design and the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group.

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Imagine a world without keyboards. Futurist Ray Kurzweil did 10 years ago when he predicted that by 2009 most portable computers would not have them any longer. Chances are you're still using a mouse and keyboard to point and click your way through this post (and the thousands of other Web pages you view every week). Yet a change is fast approaching, and it's based on touch.

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Whether you refer to the Internet's next stage of evolution as the next Web, UWeb, or Web 3.0 (and more than 800 posts that we can count on ReadWriteWeb alone have been categorized as "Web 3.0"), wondering what's coming next can be fun and instructive. At Aplus.net, we leave the musings to the experts. But perhaps our best contribution to this discussion is to highlight what our customers are asking for -- and adopting. These are the avid Web 2.0 users: the hobbyists with blogs, the non-profits with online communities, the small- and medium-sized businesses with active, growing e-commerce sites.

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Web hosting has never been more affordable -- or more complicated. Rich media, social networking, and sophisticated eCommerce platforms are all making the Internet experience incredibly dynamic, interactive, multi-faceted, and profitable.

On their blog today, web site monitoring service Pingdom took a look at web hosting services ten years ago and compared them to today's hosting services to see what has changed. The answer -- prices have gone down while included storage space and bandwidth have increased. Or, in other words, hosting hasn't changed much, but it has become a commodity service. Did many hosts miss a golden opportunity?