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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 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. We didn''t ask people to tweet it, they just did.

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

InfoChachkie

Good News Bad News. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • EmailRSS. We had been pricing our graphics cards to be a low-cost provider. The first thing I did was raise our prices.". Share and Enjoy.

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

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc.

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

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. It isn’t new stuff. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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Social Media for Service Professionals

SoCal CTO

The bad news is that my blog gets about that many new visitors each day. Use Feedburner or Feedblitz for Email. Sign up with either Feedburner or Feedblitz to provide email subscriptions to your blog. Send email to other bloggers when you post a really good post. Maybe they are waiting for the follow up email.

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Serious Presentation Tips From Standup Comics

InfoChachkie

In comedy, empty phrases such as, “Anyone here from New York?” or “Did you guys hear the news story about. ?” • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • EmailRSS. are often used to mark transitions between topics. Share and Enjoy.

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