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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

In both instances, search engines have access to the full article content—either in the HTML or within structured data—while user access is restricted. From a technical standpoint, metering is simpler—search engines can always access the full content of the article in the HTML. You can verify the real Googlebot for your site.).

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

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More than that, it’s embarrassing how, almost eight years after CSS gained practical acceptance, a lack of foresight haunts those of us who write HTML. Because each HTML document (formerly called “pages”) may contain many blocks, Web designers can use mobile devices’ limited screen sizes to their advantage.

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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. Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases. Key-based partitioning. And implementing it is easy, too.

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

blog.expensify.com

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. If they use Haml, are they ignorant of HTML? Expensify Blog.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? Google wanted the video compression software and copyrights. Flag this comment.

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

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While all Google Ventures partners make some seed investments, the firm recently hired Digg founder Kevin Rose as a partner ; Rose focuses on early-stage and seed investments, drawing on his extensive experience as an angel investor. Comments (You may use HTML tags for style). Join the discussion with Business Insider. Name (Required).

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development. Reply Jarek , on February 27, 2011 at 11:51 pm said: What about CRM?