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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). So did the media.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

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This gives us a point of view about servers and modern web application development that isn't terribly common these days: each server in your cluster should be able to process a significant amount of user load. You're in the thick of it and about to write a small chunk of server-side code. Easy stuff should be easy.

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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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Framework Benchmarks Round 16

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But we have an idea for dealing with Gozer. Mostly so that we can use the opportunity to write a blog entry and generate hype!) We last were acquainted with this adversary in Round 8 , in the form of a Giant Sloar, otherwise known as one-gigabit Ethernet. Now The Destructor comes to us laughing about 10-gigabit Ethernet.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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They have done this (they had the idea, too, so I’m not taking credit for egging them on). In a world in which you have strong client applications for consuming “multiproduct streams&# then they gain relative power to any individual stream (e.g. I believe this is important because it means that Ad.ly