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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. They need a stronger campaign about consumption rather than sending Tweets. The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Does your productuse XML? ) The dating sites are running big ad campaigns right now, which is all the more evidence theyre ripe for the picking. Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did. And as you go downthe food chain the VCs get rapidly dumber. Basically, a VC is a source ofmoney.

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

blog.expensify.com

You got two out of three right when you said.NET and Java are limiting, but you left out XML (still mostly a solution still looking for a problem). For many tasks, XML is the least portable format). We have enough problems without opening the door for YASPFC (Yet Another Software Patent FUD Campaign). March 26, 2011 at 4:58 pm.

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