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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

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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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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.".

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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Use possible input ($errSrc, $errMsg, …) from the caller to customize the error page. /requestHandler.php (Warning: untested and simplified code snippets below) /* Initialization */ $serverName = strtolower($_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]); $canonicalServerName = "sebastians-pamphlets.com"; $scheme = "[link] $rootUri = $scheme.$canonicalServerName;

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