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Joe Perez, Founder of @tastemade, On What Makes a Great Product Manager & More

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Update : Bothsides TV is now available on iTunes , Soundcloud , Stitcher , or any RSS podcast player you use, and don’t forget to subscribe on YouTube. I also added a little Soundcloud widget on the sidebar (if you’re viewing on web – not on mobile or RSS reader) that you can listen to each episode with.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

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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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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links.

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Here are 10 Tips from BuzzFeed to Make Your Content Go Viral

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I recently had the pleasure of spending an hour with Jon Steinberg, president of Buzzfeed , a company who focuses on helping media companies make their content go viral. In an era of RSS, Twitter, Facebook & new consumption tools like FlipBoard – titles matter. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people! emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. You’re not trying to build a consumer website like Mint.com. My website is a pretty long URL but people manage to find it. Some search. Both Sides of the Table. I was an entrepreneur.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted. Much of my traffic is through referring websites and/or social media. Social media is ephemeral. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. Some search.

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