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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Right now the most important role to hire in Twitter would be a seasoned marketing professional who could proactively change the conversation about Twitter and educate people about its significance as an information sharing tool. Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

Both Sides of the Table

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. One in a list, one with a quiz, one with a cut-out tool – let’s see what takes off. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed. Can we do 10 variants?

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How Pinterest, Tumblr, HootSuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable Rapidly And Repeatedly Hire Great People

InfoChachkie

Although this is a core competency that must be honed over time, there is a cadre of SaaS hiring tools that the world’s leading tech companies deploy to their advantage. The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. Right Candidates For The Right Jobs .

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. Engagement.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links. Early evidence is good.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it. By definition need redundancy. Mentions standards that are emerging. Everything else is closed.

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This 28 Year Old Woman Co-Founded One Of The Most Successful YouTube Networks

InfoChachkie

During her tenure, "A director came into our offices and pitched us a web-series idea. Originally, my company was called ''The Cloud Media.'' In the first year (at The Cloud Media), just me alone, I did over a million dollars in brand deals. So I went and wound up being a zombie in the very first video that went on The Station.