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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product. What applications and web sites have you been using? For me, my number one application is email.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do you need to provide RSS? Is the whole site SSL/HTTPS, only the login process, or something in between? How will you differentiate from these?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Do you need to provide RSS? Is the whole site SSL/HTTPS, only the login process, or something in between? How will you differentiate from these?

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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. Your content gets to the share site just as it would with the Javascript, sometimes even faster. Also, make sure the image names here are the same ones you’re using.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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this is not the case, you wont be able to do anything mentioned here without bringing your site down. You need to be able to check your sites raw web logs. The "User Agent string" is just the name thatthe program accessing your site goes by. Go to the top web directory ofyour site, where your home page is located.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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Yes, the showbiz gossip site that some prickly readers like to compare to TechCrunch , which I think is meant to be an insult but could be a compliment? Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. Hey, no one can say TMZ doesn’t get the best scoops in its field. We respect your anonymity. Upcoming Events.

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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

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Heres 5 steps to start exploring: View the "Best Of" list with 50+ essays on viral marketing, gaming, and ads » Get introduced: About this blog, why entrepreneurs and marketers recommend it » Receive updates by email or RSS feed or Twitter. Most sites don’t have to deal with this so I’ll stop here! as you go.

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