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The 1/9/90 Rule of UGC & Why It’s OK to Have Lurkers

Both Sides of the Table

What Quora has done is wrap social networking around Q&A with the more clever next-gen UX I’ve seen. creation of social status within the organization for having contributed. They need to have the right tools, social status, rewards and stickiness to your product because they don’t want to abandon their creation.

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Appallicious & the Age of Open Data

Tech Zulu Event

Chances are you’ll come face-to-face with a dusty web design with information buried behind confusing menus, documents with inscrutable titles, and slideshows that move at the speed of continental drift. Platforms like Appallicious can help governments keep up. Catch a glimpse of what the Internet was like five years ago?

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Social media. Social networking. Social games. With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. Help Desk Software.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. For the past four years, TECH cocktail has been journalistically covering and helping rally together. Joel Bush, Amplifier.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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