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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

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An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Cities are now becoming vertical again. The top down era of one size fits all.

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Not All Traffic Is Created Equal

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To build the online media giants of tomorrow, companies need models where the costs of both content and distribution are near zero. But if your service attracts particular verticals of content engagement, not all content is created equal, and some is much more valuable than others. 26 September 2012. 20 Comments. Andres Moran.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Key-based partitioning. to store it.