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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

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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 Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

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I’ve argued previously that Twitter is a new form of curated RSS and in many ways it is. But it is a transient RSS reader. They just consume Twitter when they’re hungry for a conversation or some news right now. I left the panel thinking that Guy was off base but realizing he had somewhat of a point.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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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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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

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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

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Good News Bad News. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. 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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Chumby Targets Digital Photo Frames

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Chumby's software allows digital photo frame manufacturers to tie their products into social networking sites, photo and video sharing sites, and other Internet widgets such as Internet radio, news, weather, and RSS feeds. The design is based on the Linux operating system.

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Fliptop: Shining A New Light On The RSS Feed

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The RSS feed subscription idea has been around for quite some time now, however for some reason never really caught on with the general public. Chances are because they need to then use another service like Google Reader to keep track of the RSS and end up getting information they are not generally interested in.

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