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Re:Is Facebook down? on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:01PM (#4902037)
Down in Spain

Ask HN: Open Source, the future or not?

For a long time I’ve been asking myself this question. More and more startups are promoting themselves with Open Source and free to use services. Lets take an example, a new service called www.supportduck.com. This is a startup that are promoting themself with Open Source approach where you can download the code for free on Github, or you can use their web service for free. The startup above...

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Ask HN: Where will mobile web apps be in 2-3 years?

Today we have seen the announcement of Zend Studio 10 that lets PHP developers build iOS and Android apps. We also see platforms like PhoneGap.In 2011 Techcrunch published that Facebook has more than twice as many visitors in their HTML5 app than on their native apps. I actually don't know how it is now!But my question for you is, where will mobile web apps be in 2-3 years?- Will it beat native...

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