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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. But of course we also focused on making content go viral. If you want something to be shared virally on the web it has to be short.&#. Can we do 10 variants?

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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

InfoChachkie

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you need to provide RSS? Content access controls? Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

Think of these as the big upfront questions: Who are the customers? Please be able to provide me with a few specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, what the system will do for them. What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you need to provide RSS? Content access controls? Dismissable?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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10 Ways To Become A Web Influencer In Today’s Market

Startup Professionals Musings

Traditional marketing says you have to “push” your message out to customers, over and over again, to get you remembered. A more effective approach in today’s Internet and interactive culture is to use “pull” technology to bring customers and clients to your story. Ideally, you should update content at least every two or three days.

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