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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. No matter how you end up on the front page of a major news site, getting there is just the first step.

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Breach Revs Security Tool, Targets Web 2.0 Protocols

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security risks, including security issues which occur from the use of protocols such as RSS, AJAX, XML, and SOAP. Breach said that the new product will defend against problems like cross-site scripting, XML poisoning, and other hacking techniques which have been enabled by recent use of Web 2.0 programming techniques. READ MORE>>.

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Chumby Targets Digital Photo Frames

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San Diego-based Chumby, which makes Internet-connected devices, has rolled out a new reference design that incorporates the firm's software to create Internet-connected digital photo frames. The firm said that the new reference design--which uses an application processor from Samsung--is available for developers.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

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What are some good examples of similar sites? Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Do you need to provide RSS? Is the whole site SSL/HTTPS, only the login process, or something in between? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity? are you going to leverage?

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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 provide RSS? Is the whole site SSL/HTTPS, only the login process, or something in between? Does the site need to throttle potential malicious activity? are you going to leverage?

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

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10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Game mechanics have become a popular way of increasing user engagement and pushing user adoption, referral and retention, and many startups have sought ways to incorporate game mechanics into their sites. Simply put, there is no market for RSS.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

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Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Now up: Craig Ogg Co-Founder Freshly Grated Software former VP of R&D, Stamps.com Have had to make choices about platforms many times.

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