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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. Do you really believe that I don’t care about machine time?

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries. Then over time you can add reports that will give you the CPA, activation rate, viral rates, retention rates, etc. December 2007 (7). November 2007 (4). October 2007 (11). September 2007 (15).

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.