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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter never seemed to really take the offense in PR and marketing. The idea was that websites (think news, blogs) could push out a regular “feed&# in an open, XML format that could be read by an RSS Reader otherwise known as a feed aggregator. I guess it wasn’t in their DNA.

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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. That decision has caused a bit of head scratching, since it seems like a curious choice for most programmers in the community, but be that as it may this allowed posting XML at Rails apps to be trivially exploited. I’m sorry, you’ve been misinformed.

Security 101
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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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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You got two out of three right when you said.NET and Java are limiting, but you left out XML (still mostly a solution still looking for a problem). For many tasks, XML is the least portable format). I tried to continue reading but it is obvious that you are closer to PR or marketing than to the tech area. Federico Delgado.

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