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Social Media Faking It – Cheaper Than You May Think, But Still Not Worth It

InfoChachkie

As a bonus, you''ll also enjoy a robust number of Pinterest, Tumbler and Instagram followers and you''ll still have room in your budget for 250 comments on your blog and about 100,000 views on Vimeo. For instance, Yelp calls out establishments which attempt to manipulate their reviews. What a bargain. Social norming is powerful.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. He started another company on the side while he was working during the day at a technology company.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. One out of ten of Americans are out of work. Keep the day job.

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Too Many Small Businesses Still Ignore Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article , only 60% of companies today use social media for marketing, and only 12% of those feel that they are using it effectively. A most valuable tool is WordPress or TypePad for blogging. So print it off and deliver it to a friend who is not so high-tech.

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

Xconomy

military’s high-tech think tank DARPA described Safe Genes, a new program to fund safety measures that can be built into genome editing technology or counter its potential wayward effects. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

Both Sides of the Table

Unfortunately my wife reads my blog and she’d log in and add comments to dispel this rumor (she keeps me honest. When added to my volume of Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, blog comments and Tweets my head is definitely below water. I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? We were high tech at the very start of the boom.

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