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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

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 to Start a Podcast

Tech.Co

If you're looking for a free editing software, the choice is clear: Audacity , a volunteer-developed audio editing program that works on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and doesn't cost a penny. You'll need to produce a functioning RSS feed, since RSS is the media pipeline that every major podcast provider uses to display each podcast.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

InfoChachkie

We went back to all the VCs and said, 'We have good news and bad news. The bad news, we've been sued in the US. Marten learned the news late on a Friday, "I was thinking, 'This business is over.' Instead, Marten and his Chairman executed a clever strategy, "This company that didn't really even exist yet.we

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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

InfoChachkie

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. Don’t Over Sell It. Share and Enjoy.

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Chumby Targets Digital Photo Frames

socalTECH

The firm said that the new reference design--which uses an application processor from Samsung--is available for developers. The design is based on the Linux operating system. Chumby is venture backed by Avalon Ventures, JK&B Capital, Masthead Venture Partners, and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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Lean Startup Legend Steve Blank Discloses His Most Daring Guerrilla Marketing Tactics

InfoChachkie

Good News Bad News. After repositioning the company as a developer of high-end, premium products, Steve was excited to execute a marketing campaign. Although the engineers were a bit miffed, having spent over a year developing the fastest board on the market, they indicated that they could slow the board down 10%.

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

Tech Zulu Event

Developers interact with the operating systems directly, build/use their own frameworks (eg, Django, Rails, etc), and consume server resources directly. PaaS, on the other hand, will provide a development platform (as a service) to create new applications. Your code sits directly on “top” of the infrastructure resources.

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