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Performance competition is a good thing

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As Ben Adams writes in his article detailing the achievement , that is 23 times better than prior to the start of optimization work within the framework! We deeply feel that competition of this sort is a good thing. If you're not watching, you would have also missed how much emphasis the ASP.NET team is putting on performance.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. Enter Burstly. I like that.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful. And if they can monetize their follower base then they have an incentive to grow their base, Tweet more, engage more and write better quality Tweets. Just ask MySpace. Everybody gains.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 16

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Most importantly, the community has been contributing some amazing test implementations and demonstrating the fun and utility of some good-natured performance competition. Mostly so that we can use the opportunity to write a blog entry and generate hype!) Recent months have been a very exciting time for this project.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. Salesforce was very good at managing the 1-year roadmap so at any point in time we had a pretty good idea about what we would be developing and what we wouldn’t. I believe this is important because it means that Ad.ly