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Why Titles Matter a Lot if You’re a Blogger

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” I invested in a social-media analytics & engagement platform company called Awe.sm and as an investor I always play around with the products in which I’ve invested. I would delete my Tweet and then write something like, “ Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. People looooove lists.

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Has Facebook Achieved What AOL Could Have A Generation Ago?

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Mark Zuckerberg announced native Instant Articles as a feature update about a year ago and Facebook has been slowly rolling out and improving the product ever since. Facebook started with the biggest publishers in the game: BuzzFeed , Huffington Post , New York Times , Washington Post.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

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No matter where I worked, I never found any sort of product that managed the workflow between editors and writers and it is the number one problem in the publishing world. I built the product I wanted, as a writer, editor, and as a publisher. I gave her the email address to the AP department and let them sort it all out.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

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Let me just put this more clearly for you up front – the vast majority of the Internet is used for porn so every product has this use but you probably just don’t know about it: YouTube, Tumblr, Facebook, FaceTime, Skype and of course be very careful on Google Search without “safe mode” on.

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

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Some, of course, agree with me that BuzzFeed has been and continues to be the gold standard innovator in digital media to emulate. Or perhaps you think Donald Trumps assessment that BuzzFeed is a “ Failing pile of garbage is correct?” Back then there were “email forwards.” Others are skeptical, “Ha!

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