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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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Your World in 2030

Start Up Blog

They’re doing this in two major ways: through tax avoidance and reducing their number of employees paying PAYE tax due to production automation. Personal Operating Systems Will Arrive: Software systems will organise our personal lives. New policies will be set in place the world over favouring local and small businesses.

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5 SEO Action Steps You Can Take Today

Duct Tape Marketing

5 SEO Action Steps You Can Take Today written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing In a recent blog post I wrote about the new realities of SEO. Lots of people use WordPress plugins and Facebook content boxes and such to make sharing their blog posts much easier. Up the +1 and Like.

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Overview: Extracting article text from HTML documents

tomazkovacic.com

My tech blog. The majority of methods presented in research papers from that epoch are nowadays useless due to strong assumptions and heuristics that don’t apply on today’s web development practices. In the following chapters I’ll try to review some article text extraction methods that are applicable to today’s websites.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Then came blogs. We have it to filter blog comments.

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How To Use Priming To Improve UX

ConversionXL

Semantic priming – when the meaning created influences later thoughts. Semantic and conceptual priming are similar and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Non-associative semantic priming – related concepts but one is less likely to trigger thoughts of the other (e.g. Priming for Expected Experience.

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The App is Dead (OK Not Really, But The Browser Is Back)

www.readwriteweb.com

One of the most compelling case studies of this shift away from apps and back to websites came earlier this week from Jason Pontin , the Editor-in-Chief and publisher of Technology Review. After launching iOS and Android apps in January 2011, Technology Review ran into development, sales and other difficulties. semantic web.

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