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Need a Technical Co-founder? Hire a Product Design Lead First

This is going to be BIG.

He thinks about how he can offer solutions, not create more problems like RSS readers did. Good design is winning all over the web--at sites like Mint, Twitter,and Quora. editing and curation - Making qualitative judgements about what the user should see and be able to consume.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. Social Networking in Web 1.0. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Social Networking in Web 2.0.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

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?

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Here’s a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 2 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube 5 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

mashable.com

blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 2 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car. Auto-Tune the News" Curates: Our Fav.

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From RSS to Glassboard

Venture Chronicles

Marshall has been an advocate for RSS from the earliest days but he is wrong to pin the blame for consumer RSS’ demise on random factors like flash games on Facebook, the wounds here are self-inflicted for the most part. I wrote about it repeatedly and still believe it to be a major reason behind the demise of RSS.

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