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Infographic: What Tools Developers Actually Use

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But there were a few surprises too, including 23% using Notepad++ as their text editor and 8% using Heroku to host their apps. But there were a few surprises too, including 23% using Notepad++ as their text editor and 8% using Heroku to host their apps. © 2003-2011 ReadWriteWeb. Many of the categories are wide open.

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Big Opportunities for Startups Providing Big Data, Data-as-a-Service

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Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, whose last company Applied Semantics was acquired by Google in 2003, becoming one of the core components of AdSense. Factual is an open platform for developers and publishers to build apps with its data, accessible via its APIs.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

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No matter how deep those discounts are on the equipment and Solaris hosting, its still going to be a healthy chunk of change that could better be spent on development time. The best technique is just to lease / rent dedicated servers from hosts like SoftLayer, The Planet, etc, and pay several hundred dollars a month out of your revenues.

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Even Branding Should Be Agile: An Interview With Base Creative’s Matthew Kinsman

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In 2003, Matthew Kinsman was traveling around the world and found himself in Hong Kong. If you offer an online service, host webinars, have contests on social media, design a virtual tour of your facility. The Satmetrix API focuses on an iterative process of analyzing the customer experience perpetually.

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RWW Recommends: The Startup Toolkit

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Its also free, and offered and supported by almost every hosting company. Before you consider hosting your own servers, check out Web services like Amazons Application Hosting. Before you consider hosting your own servers, check out Web services like Amazons Application Hosting. © 2003-2012 ReadWriteWeb.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

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A given customer would have an entity URL that looked like this: customer://1234 Somewhere in your API, you have a way to access data about a given customer. Whichever API you use, URL-based sharding is very easy to understand. The better your internal APIs and data architecture, the easier this step will be.

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6 Gorgeous Wordpress Themes for Small Business Sites

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It comes with five color schemes and a host of fancy controls for the back-end admin of Wordpress. » SeaLight Sealight is a shiny, gradient-heavy theme that lets companies showcase products and key information in the homepage slider box while also prominently maintaining a company blog. » Read more details. »