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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. Do you really believe that I don’t care about machine time?

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

Both Sides of the Table

The 30-minute interview of Jonah Peretti is here but my summary in the notes below. Video is the new HTML.” He thinks the history of media businesses show that they have three fundamental pillars: news, entertainment and advertising and you need to be great at all three of these things. I asked Jonah about this. “I

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