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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The biggest strategic mistake Silicon Valley and TechCrunch, Forbes, New York Times attempting to portray tech innovation as a white guy thing was failing to recognize technology only goes as far as the adopting ecosystem. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech.

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Does Your New Year’s Resolution Include Reorganizing Your Data? Cross That Off The List Right Now!

YoungUpstarts

No need to even tell the search engine what format your data is in; it automatically recognizes popular file formats like PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc. Just point to the relevant directories and the like that you want to index, and the application will do the rest.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). Well, I am not in the Bay area, I am in the New York city area. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices). Advocate for the appropriate use of SAAS, design patterns, frameworks, SOA, ORM, and MVC. Spent a lot of money on that.

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How to Analyze SERPs to Win Big in Rankings

ConversionXL

For example, the SERP for “how to do a push up” is dominated by authoritative sites, with The New York Times (not pictured below) claiming the featured snippet, and wikiHow, Men’s Health, and Nerd Fitness all high on the first page: So what do you do? Check that top pages are in your XML sitemap. Target a related term (i.e.

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

Austin Startup

Huge media players such as New York Times and Thompson Reuters/Open Calais publish Linked Data. The Semantic Web is here and organizations such as the Drupal, New York Times, Best Buy, Thompson Reuters and even the US and UK government make part of this reality together with Google’s Rich Snippets and Yahoo’s Search Monkey.

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Continuous deployment with downloads

Startup Lessons Learned

We repurposed that field to optionally include some XML describing an on-screen dialog box. A new feature would often be first "implemented" by a dialog box shown to a few percent of the userbase. That meant we could notify some percentage of customers of something at any time, which was great for split-testing.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Does your productuse XML? ) Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did. And as you go downthe food chain the VCs get rapidly dumber. A few steps down from the top youre basically talking to bankers whove picked up a fewnew vocabulary words from reading Wired. Basically, a VC is a source ofmoney.

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