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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header. Lookup their hosting services, find the report-abuse form, and submit your complaints.

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

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Step 5: Formal in-house reporting. Once the product features (and thus the user flows) are sufficiently mature to invest in this area, then it makes sense to formalize out the reports. Typically I would start out with a series of pretty plain HTML pages using tables that just print out SQL queries. Reports are too slow!

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

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. In May 2007 there were fears that Google was becoming a monopoly.

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

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(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 Video is the new HTML.” The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below.

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