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Migrating From Magento To Shopify

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It represents an Open Source type of commerce, which means that it is free to use, it is developed to generate virtual stores, promoting the different tangible and intangible physical products. It has several features to highlight, wide flexibility, it is open source, it is free, and you can extend its version to Magento 2.

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Social Media On The Farm: Crisis Management, Market Research, Education And APIs

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A group called Open Food is collaborating on an open source API to share data about food. The other side of the supply chain is becoming more connected to realtime data feeds, too.

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Social Media News Ticker: Embed Tweets Within Tweets on Twitter, Instagram Expands Ads Outside U.S.

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LinkedIn upgrades its search engine and ditches an array of open source extensions – last week LinkedIn announced the launch of new search engine infrastructure, called Galene, that will improve search results and problems with maintenance (GigaOM).

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Social Media News Ticker: Instagram Launches Bolt, Foursquare Debuts New Logo, Facebook Drops Gifts

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Twitter acquires password startup Mitro – Twitter acquired small password security startup Mitro, with plans to keep the team but not the product; Mitro’s product will live on as an open source project (TechCrunch).

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A Look at the Future of Emerging Technologies

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Even if concepts similar to the current cryptocurrencies, involving ideas such as decentralization, and open source code, were introduced to the world a while ago in the “cyberpunk” movement, blockchain as we know it only got born 10 years ago.

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How To Organize A Brand Hackathon (And Why) – Interview With Betabrand’s Chris Lindland

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“Betabrand is perfect because we have such an open, experimental approach to branding,” says Lindland. From its Model Citizen photo campaign to its Disco Open Source Project to its ThinkTank Community Idea Factory, Betabrand has built its brand around customer engagement. Your Brand is a Platform.

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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Launches #FirstTweet, Facebook Paper Teams With TED

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Facebook unveils Hack, a new programming language for writing code faster – in an attempt to speed up writing and testing code, Facebook built a new programming language called Hack; it’s been in use for a year at Facebook, but was released last Thursday as open source (GigaOM).

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