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Internet Business Lingo Quiz for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Social networks. They became popular for socializing, but now are prime sources of business networking, customer service, and client leads. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. You are now reading one of 50 million out there already. Search engine marketing (SEM).

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

Obviously it is build on a social network “follow people&# model that is asymmetric like Twitter. It also feels very wiki like. Although on reflection, answering questions, reading other people’s responses, earning social status … probably more “zone of effectiveness&# than might immediately be obvious.

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Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

Feld Thoughts

While they like sites like Stack Overflow and Github’s wiki pages on different open source projects, Nate and Natty never found a great site on the web that has comprehensive documentation on how to program. As they were trying to get basic stuff to work, they spent time searching for and then reading the full posts and comments.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. .

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

Best Buy uses RDFa and has shown a 30% increase in their SEO efforts. The Semantic Web is already changing the way we search, do SEO, find information, integrate data and create web applications. The web has gone social and is rapidly going semantic. The upcoming Drupal 7 release will have full native support with RDF.

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RWW Recommends: The Startup Toolkit

www.readwriteweb.com

Equally important, Wordpress is more popular than all other content-management stems combined , with massive networks of developers, designers and SEO experts ready to help out at a moments notice. List Yours, Find Others' on This Wiki. startup tools wiki. social media. social networks.

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Lessons Learned: The App Store after the gold rush

Startup Lessons Learned

On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. On the iPhone, it seems that two are driving most of the installs: the "newest apps" RSS feed (which may be combined with PR) and a primitive form of SEO, when people search the App Store for a specific kind of app. The observation sounds strange.