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Demand Media Buys Two Firms, Renews Google Ad Deal

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online publishing empire run by Richard Rosenblatt, said Tuesday afternoon that it has acquired two companies, plus renewed a deal with Google. IndieClick was headed by Peter Luttrell, and RSS Graffiti by Ryan Hoffman. Financial details of the two acquisition was not disclosed.

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Joe Perez, Founder of @tastemade, On What Makes a Great Product Manager & More

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Update : Bothsides TV is now available on iTunes , Soundcloud , Stitcher , or any RSS podcast player you use, and don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube. I also added a little Soundcloud widget on the sidebar (if you’re viewing on web – not on mobile or RSS reader) that you can listen to each episode with.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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According to Marten, it was a demoralizing blow that would have spooked the investors, if MySQL had acquiesced to the US company's demands. It didn't take more than a few weeks and suddenly there were three other projects developing alternative technologies for MySQL. That was such a powerful message; it went all over the world.

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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In contrast, Pink Floyd followed their passion and created long-form, unified musical pieces they wanted to hear, rather than the pithy, three minute singles demanded by their label's executives. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS.

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

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After repositioning the company as a developer of high-end, premium products, Steve was excited to execute a marketing campaign. Although the engineers were a bit miffed, having spent over a year developing the fastest board on the market, they indicated that they could slow the board down 10%. Good News Bad News. Share and Enjoy.

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

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Developers interact with the operating systems directly, build/use their own frameworks (eg, Django, Rails, etc), and consume server resources directly. PaaS, on the other hand, will provide a development platform (as a service) to create new applications. Most SaaS providers deliver end-user applications on-demand, as a service.

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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. Well, it’s true that HEAD request provoke only an HTTP response header.