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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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I reached out to Michael after their surprising day at the top of Hacker News during early September. The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. According to Michael, the Hacker News exposure was completely unplanned.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

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First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? That’s Twitter.

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How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

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I’ve argued previously that Twitter is a new form of curated RSS and in many ways it is. But it is a transient RSS reader. They just consume Twitter when they’re hungry for a conversation or some news right now. I left the panel thinking that Guy was off base but realizing he had somewhat of a point.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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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.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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We went back to all the VCs and said, 'We have good news and bad news. The bad news, we've been sued in the US. Marten learned the news late on a Friday, "I was thinking, 'This business is over.' Instead, Marten and his Chairman executed a clever strategy, "This company that didn't really even exist yet.we

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

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Good News Bad News. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. We had been pricing our graphics cards to be a low-cost provider. The first thing I did was raise our prices.". Share and Enjoy.

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Inventor Or Innovator – Which Are You?

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Philo invented television with the hope that by visually transmitting news and global events into peoples’ homes, the world would become a harmonious community, thereby reducing man’s desire to wage war. What Did Philo Invent? After a long bout with alcoholism, Philo was understandably bitter in his twilight years. TV photo by gbaku.

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