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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

socalTECH

In the quest to own the world of Internet content, there has been a huge amount of focus given to the world of consumer Internet content. For that reason, more and more content is going online. However, as these are relatively niche focuses, it's difficult for those content providers--often times bloggers--to build an audience.

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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. A greedy horde of bots pounces on every tweet containing a link, requesting its content.

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Google For Icons | IconFinder Providing The Best for Developers and Designers

Tech Zulu Event

Back in 2004-2005 I was working as a full-time web designer, where we used KDE (Linux). All the files where named e.g. user.png so I started using the OS search functionality to find the icons on the hard drive if I needed an icon in a web design or as inspiration for icon design. We both studied at Copenhagen business school.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

SoCal Delicious

requestUri; $uriParts = parse_url($absoluteUri); $requestScript = $PHP_SELF; $httpResponseCode = NULL; Block rogue bots You don’t want to waste resources by serving your valuable content to useless bots. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. uriParts["fragment"]; } header("HTTP/1.1

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