November, 2007

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OpenSocial - Long Way to Go

SoCal CTO

I had already written about OpenSocial ( OpenSocial and Facebook as Platforms) and frankly I was hoping for a lot more in the announcements and APIs. I only have a cursory understanding of OpenSocial from reading various posts and from crawling through the API definitions, but it appears that OpenSocial has a long way to go before it's going to be useful for several of the applications we are working on.

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Great Athletes versus Great Resumes

Frank Addante

People always ask me what I mean when I say hire "great athletes" versus "great resumes". I'm not a big fan of cliches. So, when I say it, I mean it. Let me explain.My team: what they were doing before the Rubicon Project.Casey: Talent productionChristen*: Liberian refugee camp volunteer, opiate treatment center research assistantJeannette: Movie producer, commercial real estate.

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Great Athletes versus Great Resumes

Frank Addante

People always ask me what I mean when I say hire "great athletes" versus "great resumes". I'm not a big fan of cliches. So, when I say it, I mean it. Let me explain. My team: what they were doing before the Rubicon Project. Casey: Talent production Christen*: Liberian refugee camp volunteer, opiate treatment center research assistant Jeannette: Movie producer, commercial real estate.

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Organizational Organization

Frank Addante

Yesterday, we announced the results from our beta launch here at the Rubicon Project. (read announcement here) Our original plan was to launch our beta in January of 2008. We hoped to get 500 websites signed up between January and April of next year. We launched early, on October 8, and in the very first day over 500 website publishers signed up. In the first month, we had over 1100 sign ups.

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Can You Ask for Office Rent Relief? How to Manage Your Lease During COVID-19

Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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Organizational Organization

Frank Addante

Yesterday, we announced the results from our beta launch here at the Rubicon Project. (read announcement here). Our original plan was to launch our beta in January of 2008. We hoped to get 500 websites signed up between January and April of next year. We launched early, on October 8, and in the very first day over 500 website publishers signed up. In the first month, we had over 1100 sign.

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Guerilla Marketing Makes Me Thirsty

Frank Addante

I know it's been a couple of weeks since my last post. Things have been going absolutely crazy for us over here at the Rubicon Project. We've been bringing more and more users live onto our system daily and trying to grow the team to keep up with the increasing demand (more on that later).We just got back from ad:tech NY. As I mentioned before, we launched our beta much earlier than we.