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Inside Mattermark’s Ubiquitous Newsletter: Principles and Process

View from Seed

The Mattermark Daily consists of both original content from the company’s blog and a hand-curated list of featured posts from various investors, founders, and media members covering the startup ecosystem. Mattermark has a specific process that its newsletter curators follow in assembling the list of featured articles each day. “If

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Twitter Networks are Different than Social Networks

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve talked about how Twitter is a new form of RSS (curated RSS), it’s a a new form of IM / SMS , it’s a place where business is conducted and it’s a place where advertising will drive leads due to the link sharing nature of Twitter. I think they’re missing something.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

First, A Primer: Portals, RSS, Feed Readers & Delicious - When the web started we needed directories to find information and thus Yahoo! Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. And the company that helped websites publish RSS? Twitter curates even wider.

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Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First

This is going to be BIG.

He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. editing and curation - Making qualitative judgements about what the user should see and be able to consume. He has spent a lot of time thinking about what users really want to do to solve information overload problems.

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From RSS to Glassboard

Venture Chronicles

Marshall has been an advocate for RSS from the earliest days but he is wrong to pin the blame for consumer RSS’ demise on random factors like flash games on Facebook, the wounds here are self-inflicted for the most part. I wrote about it repeatedly and still believe it to be a major reason behind the demise of RSS.

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5 Types of Content That Every Business Must Employ

Duct Tape Marketing

Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? cheap accessible digital hardware]. Why did Twitter emerge despite Facebook’s dominance?