SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete. That's impressive growth! How did they do it?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 15, 2011

And it certainly seems to have worked with reports of: Branchout has seen explosive growth in January 2011, growing from 10K to 250K monthly users, with a total usership now in the hundreds of thousands. As an example, they walk you through getting your profile more complete. That's impressive growth! How did they do it?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Isn’t it frustrating to think you understand something new in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Where are the young social media users going? By some measurements Twitter was the fastest growing social network of 2012.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. For example, are you providing a stats service that needs frequent, fast updates? Web Application such as Web Mail or a gated Social network. For example, let’s assume this is a content site. Complex reports? There may be lots of pages.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In 2009, when the platform was just under three years old, Nielsen put out a report stating that Twitter had grown 1,382% year-over-year. In fact, Twitter was one of the first mobile social media platforms. A great example of this is when they switched from “favoriting” a tweet with a star to “hearting” it with a heart.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Want to know, for example, why Foursquare uses MongoDB to store check-in information? How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter.

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