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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

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First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? Twitter curates even wider.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

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“How-to&# guides work well. Offer the ability to react / comment - In the blogging world it’s clear that having a good comment system like Disqus is critical. Good comment community = viral blog. Try making your blog posts as lists and have it in your headline to drive clicks. How very meta of me, hey?

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Entrepreneurs Now Start Hyperlocal Then Go Global

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. It also shows how such a website can scale by adding new cities. Geographic customization.

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Smart Startups Think Global But Act Hyperlocal

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. It also shows how such a website can scale by adding new cities. Geographic customization.

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Hyperlocal is the Latest Buzzword for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. It also shows how such a website can scale by adding new cities. Geographic customization.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

blog comments powered by Disqus. Star Trek Contest. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newsletters. Live at the Apple Event: iPad Mini (and more?). Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. 11 hrs ago.

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Quickly Enable Social Logins with JanRain Engage

SoCal Delicious

The channel is sponsored by the Intel AppUp Developer Program. While a direct port of your applications features and user interface would be simple, a bit of due diligence up front may necessitate minor changes that will ensure what you end up with at the end of the porting process is what you had envisioned.