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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Will you also have a separate login?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Do you need to round trip an email to validate the email? Cloudsponge for email invites to large group? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do they generate emails or other external notifications? Email - are you sending out emails periodically? Will you also have a separate login?

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

For me, my number one application is email. Well likely it’s email. And they could even allow me to send an email response so that I would never have to go to the site. if that was my chosen messaging platform. What do I mean by the other interface? What applications and web sites have you been using? That’s just fine.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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Back then there were “email forwards.” This got passed around on email from person to person and became so popular it appeared on the Today Show where Jonah (admittedly not an expert in global factory conditions) appeared with Katie Couric and Nike’s head of global PR and debated sweatshops. Wasn’t Jonah worried about “platform risks?”

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Lesson learned (to me at least) – let people get stinking rich off your platform and tax ‘em later. Social Networking in Web 1.0.

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

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encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance?

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Improving Website and Wordpress Performance with Hard-Coded Share Buttons

SoCal Delicious

Wordpress in particular is fairly resource heavy right out of the box so speeding up everything else is a critical piece of running a site on this platform. You’re about halfway there but the next few steps differ depending on what platform your site uses. Adding it to my list… would make a great post, no?

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