article thumbnail

Some Fresh Twitter Stats (as of July 2012, Dataset Included)

Diego Basch

The Twitter API allows requesting 100 user profiles with one call, so that means I had to issue 12,500 calls. Twitter limits API requests from a given IP address to 150 per hour (in practice sometimes less). So I generated 1.25M unique user ids in the range 0-637M, and tried to fetch the profile details for them.

IP 78
article thumbnail

How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). Our product is fairly complex and Matt also nails the budget pretty well. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series!

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How To Create a Web App

www.readwriteweb.com

I think, if you can swing it, the first round of the core technology / IP should be developed by the founders. When you set out to write your functional spec, you need to follow a clear structure so that your developers understand what you are saying. but you at least have it exactly as you wish.

Web 40
article thumbnail

Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

If you think so, please let me know what they are.

article thumbnail

Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

Mobile 109
article thumbnail

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You’re also living in an anti-Microsoft fantasy land if you think that all things that need to be done can be done with widgets and APIs provided in.Net. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Purchase IP from the vendors. Steven Livingstone.

Java 107
article thumbnail

Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Previous Israeli exhibitors lists are available MWC 2009 and MWC 2010. Allot is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenuegeneration solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G.4G/LTE Allot Communications.

Mobile 103