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Stealing MySpace Stealing MySpace Julia Angwin A few years ago, MySpace.com was just an idea kicking around a Southern California spam mill. Scroll down to the present day and MySpace is one of the most visited Internet destinations in America, d… OL11967208W
Dot.con Dot.con John Cassidy Presents a history of the Internet stock market boom and inevitable crash, focusing on the role played by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, Wall Street analysts, journalists, and policy makers. OL13786460W
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook Ben Mezrich The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances with the opposite sex, ended up creating Facebook.Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard unde… OL14924461W
The art of immersion The art of immersion Frank Rose This book is a field guide to the visionaries and the fans who are reinventing the art of storytelling. Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and… OL15998849W
Digital wars Digital wars Charles Arthur "The first time that Apple, Google and Microsoft found themselves sharing the same digital space was 1998. They were radically different companies that would subsequently fight a series of battles fo… OL16240360W
Facebook Facebook Ashley Rae Harris This title examines the remarkable lives of Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes and their work building the social networking site Facebook. Readers will learn about … OL16532176W
No better time No better time Molly Knight Raskin The brief remarkable life of Danny Lewin The Genius who transformed the Internet. About Akamai Technologies. OL17320267W
Handbook of research on global diffusion of broadband data transmission Handbook of research on global diffusion of broadband data transmission Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi "This book explores broadband adoption and the digital divide through a global perspective, it provides research on constructs such as relative advantage, utilitarian outcomes, hedonic outcomes, and … OL18358997W
Goodbye iSlave Goodbye iSlave Jack Linchuan Qiu "Welcome to a brave new world of profit making, propelled by high technology, guarded by enterprising authority, and carried forward by millions of workers. These millions of bodies gather in giganti… OL19711356W
Lost and founder Lost and founder Rand Fishkin Shares the author's experiences creating, running, and leaving a tech company, and offers advice to people who want to create tech startups of their own. OL19740367W
Googled Googled Ken Auletta A revealing, forward-looking examination of the outsize influence Google has had on the changing media Landscape.There are companies that create waves and those that ride or are drowned by them. As o… OL1990196W
More awesome than money More awesome than money Dwyer, Jim "Four NYU undergrads wanted to build a social network that would allow users to control what they shared about themselves. They were hoping to raised 10k in 30 days and their project was called Diasp… OL19986882W
How the Internet became commercial How the Internet became commercial Shane M. Greenstein "In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes ho… OL20020895W
Chaos monkeys Chaos monkeys Antonio García Martínez "The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble that traces his hedonist lifestyle against a backdrop of… OL20032373W
Uberworked and underpaid Uberworked and underpaid Trebor Scholz "This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of network culture's toughest critics, Trebor Scholz chron… OL20047652W
Jerry Yang Jerry Yang Jennifer Strand 24 pages : 21 cm OL20492781W
Li Yanhong Li Yanhong Xiao Han Ben shu jiang shu de jiu shi li yan hong zai da zao bai du shen hua guo cheng zhong de zhong zhong ji dong ren xin de gu shi. shu zhong suo jiang shu de gu shi zhen shi you bu shi ci ji, xiang jin yo… OL26449167W
E-preneur E-preneur Richard J. Goossen By getting direct involvement from their customers, you can generate ideas, market test new products and create brand advocates more effectively and efficiently than by using traditional methods, e-p… OL5032792W
The leap The leap Tom Ashbrook In 1996, Tom Ashbrook was an international reporter who, in a crisis of the soul, resolved to join an old college classmate on the Internet rocket ride. THE LEAP tells the story of how he walked away… OL8073859W
Google Google Virginia A. Scott It's the American dream—start a company, make a fortune, and retire early. But to become multimillionaires in their twenties, as Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin did, boggles the mind. All … OL9879831W
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