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Comments are the New Black

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When I sent out 300 invites in early 2006 people thought I was crazy. In a way, I think that the information that you can find in the “stream&# of Disqus comments is far more valuable than that which you will find in Twitter. Facebook has much more value to me as a networking tool. Disqus has enabled all this. It is threaded.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. socalTECH.com is the most respected and most read sources of information on Southern California’s technology and venture capital industry. Subscribe to RSS.

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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. Email updates » RSS updates » About Futuristic Play. December 2006 (17).

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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ThingFetcher update: The owners of ThingFetcher are now aware of the problem, and will try to fix it asap ( more information ). That means that doing HTTP requests is cheaper for the bot’s owner, but on the other hand that’s way more expensive for the content producer, and the URI shortening services involved as well.

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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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Better do that when you actually need this information, or run a cron job for this purpose. If you’re storing titles and such stuff grabbed from the destination page, don’t fetch the destination page on create. With the shortcut returned build the short URI on-the-fly $shortUri = getBaseUri()."/".$suriShortcut;

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