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Lunch.com Adds Personalized RSS Feeds

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Los Angeles-based Lunch.com , the online social media and networking site run by J.R. Johnson, told its users today that it has unveiled a new, personal RSS feed feature to the site. According to Lunch.com, the new feed can be added to blogs, personal sites, or elsewhere to help users promote their content.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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The lessons learned by Divshot confirm that obtaining, and more importantly maintaining, visibility on the front page of a major social news site results from the congruence of three factors: audience, timing and engagement. To do this, you must formulate a sound engagement plan in advance of receiving unexpected media attention.

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2012 – The Year Of Syndication

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I also expanded the syndication of my articles to mainstream sites, such as TechCrunch, Inc. Exposure on these sites more than doubled my readership from 2011. Unfortuately, link-bait titles generate a disproporionate number of views on mainstream sites in which readers decide which articles to explore based solely on their titles.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

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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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Coull Entrepreneurs Get More Customers

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Apologies: an incomplete draft of this article was inadvertently sent out previously via RSS. Others shun translucent run-of-site Google ads, because they are distracting and monetize at extremely low rates. However, they were expensive to create because they required advertisers to employ full-service media agencies.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Do you need to process user-contributed media? Do you need to provide RSS? Is the whole site SSL/HTTPS, only the login process, or something in between? How will you differentiate from these?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Do you need to process user-contributed media? Do you need to provide RSS? Is the whole site SSL/HTTPS, only the login process, or something in between? How will you differentiate from these?

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