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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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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? That’s Twitter.

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How to Start a Podcast

Tech.Co

You'll need to produce a functioning RSS feed, since RSS is the media pipeline that every major podcast provider uses to display each podcast. There are two main ways to get your own RSS feed. First, you can buy your own website domain, set up a website from a template, and host an RSS feed through your website.

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Fliptop: Shining A New Light On The RSS Feed

Tech Zulu Event

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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How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

Both Sides of the Table

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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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

InfoChachkie

We went back to all the VCs and said, 'We have good news and bad news. The bad news, we've been sued in the US. Marten learned the news late on a Friday, "I was thinking, 'This business is over.' Instead, Marten and his Chairman executed a clever strategy, "This company that didn't really even exist yet.we

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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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