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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 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. Don’t Over Sell It. Share and Enjoy.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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