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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? Twitter curates even wider.

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2012 – The Year Of Syndication

InfoChachkie

Below is a list of the syndicated entries which received the most views and/or social media attention, with links to the versions that appeared here on infoChachkie. > 780 social media shares - front page of TechCrunch last weekend of Olympics. > 4,000 views of accompanying video ~ 600 social media shares on Inc.

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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

InfoChachkie

Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. As noted in YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund , many YouTube personalities are sensitive to the nature of the ads associated with their content. Coull Offers Advertisers Video Skimlinks.

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YouTubers Come Of Age – Google Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund

InfoChachkie

some of the money was spent by YouTubers to purchase homes and not create videos), the majority of the funds were properly deployed by the emerging community of professional YouTubers. The same phenomenon is true in the YouTube ecosystem, but with a social media twist. YouTube allows viewers to subscribe to their favorite channels.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

InfoChachkie

Lesson: As described in Go For The Quick Buck , wily startups also devise creative ways to secure funding from their customers, rather than from investors. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? Do you need to process user-contributed media? Do you need to provide RSS? Are there specific metrics needed for future funding rounds or for operations? Tell me about the business. What are the big milestones you have as a business?

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