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The impact of the cloud and PaaS on marketing

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Though "the Rouge" continued to operate as an assembly plant until 2004 when one last convertible Mustang GT rolled off the line in May of that year, Ford had decades earlier moved to a more decentralized manufacturing process. The evolution of application software development Application software development is on a similar path.

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Design’s New Frontier: The IRL Era

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When the neologism was popularized in 2004 by Tim O'Reilly, the words Web 2.0 When backend software meets the real world through a mobile phone, that’s an IRL experience. captured a desire for the web to become interactive. It was a description of a movement towards social media and engaging users on the web. In Web 2.0,