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How to Save MySpace

Jason Nazar

Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. Local News Online & More Valuable User Generated Content. The user generated content on MySpace is user profiles, updates, blogs and pictures.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

Now when we run a promotion with our new partner and get a thousand users coming in at one time, it grinds to a halt.”. We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. ” Really?

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.