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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. Also, it’s too dumb to follow chained redirects, by the way.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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In our industry we call that a TAM (total addressable market) and I’m sure you can even Google methods for calculating a TAM. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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Standalone URI shorteners work fine when you want to shorten mostly foreign URIs, but that’s a crappy approach when you want to submit your own stuff to social media. Because you throw away the ability to totally control your traffic from social media, and search engine traffic generated by social media as well.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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SocialVibe – Social media monetization platform that benefits non-profit organizations and social causes. Following Microsoft’s addressable advertising trials with NBC in June 2009, many suspect that Google’s investment may have some defensive motivations, as well. OTHER DEALS.