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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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I reached out to Michael after their surprising day at the top of Hacker News during early September. The innocuous post, which was simply titled " Divshot " generated over 110 comments and was awarded nearly 200 points by Hacker News' notoriously jaded readers. According to Michael, the Hacker News exposure was completely unplanned.

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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

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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. Similar to their prior guerilla-marketing stunt, their April Fool''s Day posting topped Hacker News. We didn''t ask people to tweet it, they just did.

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Chumby Targets Digital Photo Frames

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San Diego-based Chumby, which makes Internet-connected devices, has rolled out a new reference design that incorporates the firm's software to create Internet-connected digital photo frames. The firm said that the new reference design--which uses an application processor from Samsung--is available for developers.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

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So integrating an application with SaaS providers allows a developer to consume SaaS services as components and building blocks without having to reinvent the wheel (eg, using Google Maps for location services, using RSS aggregators for content/news services, etc). The post Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. is the second largest designated market area (DMA) in the country, so youre starting with a natural talent pool of very interesting people, and also, a market from which to sell your goods and services into. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups?