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Business As Usual: Onavo, VideoSurf and Kaminario Raise Funding

VC Cafe

The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, MA with R&D offices in Israel. VideoSurf was started by Lior Delgo, the formrer founder of FareChase (sold to Yahoo in 2004 in subsequently closed in 2008) accompanied by a very strong suit of Phd co-founders. Caminaro develops storage solutions in SSD drives.

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Getting The Website Information Architecture Right: How to Structure Your Site for Optimal User Experiences

ConversionXL

Step #3: Metadata, scenarios, pages. There are several good methods to do this, but here’s one that I like to use: Figure out the metadata. Metadata is information about information. If you browse around and can’t find it, it’s a sign of bad metadata. More on the importance of metadata. Plan for it!

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive done this before using a structured comment added to each SQL statement, like this: /*entity customer://1234 */ SELECT name FROM customer WHERE id = 1234 At the expense of some additional parsing overhead in your data-access layer, you get additional metadata associated with every query in your application.

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In Cloud We Trust: First Round invests in Backupify

This is going to be BIG.

Back in late 2008, I noticed that one of my Flickr contacts seemed to be short a few photos--like, a few thousand of them. Not only were they files in the cloud, but they had all sorts of attached metadata like tags, comments, and groupings that didn't come in a neatly packaged desktop file.

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A New Generation of AI: ChatGPT

Duct Tape Marketing

Anyway, you know when Twitter came around finally, I don't know what year it was, 2008, 2009, it is. Great example of that, writing metadata. I remember, this is going way back, so hang on cuz I'm gonna do a grandpa thing, almost internet grandpa. It's like, if you're not on Twitter, you know, you're just like not cool. (03:19):

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

Before: For something a little lighter, in February of 2008 Mailchimp hired User Experience designer Aaron Walter and logo designer Jon Hicks to give the MailChimp experience the friendly vibe we’ve come to expect from the brand. These “micro-emotions” as Malcolm Gladwell calls them , are the metadata of human interaction.

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