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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

Or, as always, summary notes available below. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 But, in fact, I would rather have an executive summary than a pitch deck. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.