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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

A name can be a prison,” says Michael Martine, the blogging and SEO expert behind Remarkablogger. Plus, since spammers rely heavily on popular keywords, names generated solely with SEO in mind can seem spammy. Just don’t forsake that natural ability because you’re so focused on domain names, SEO and empty vessels. Is It Sticky?

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Web Sites and Books for Novice Programmers

Feld Thoughts

It turns out that Nate and Natty have only bought three programming books in the history of Everlater and one was a forgettable SEO book that doesn’t even merit being mentioned. The other two were HTML, XHTML, and CSS published by Visual Blueprint and RailsSpace by Michael Hartl and Aurelius Prochazka.

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Startup Launch Checklist

Spencer Fry

Lots of customers want to reach you on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks. Do some basic keyword analysis: Not every app is great for SEO, but if you think that people are searching with a problem you're solving, then you should do the keyword analysis and build your site's copy around it. Hammer home your message.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Rhodes Rhodes is a Ruby-based framework designed to help developers create native apps for a wide range of devices and platforms. The reason we included Rhodes in this roundup — despite being a Ruby tool — is that it uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript in its views.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Infiltrate the social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and then try to connect face-to-face. Practice your business development skills; you’ll have to be the socially skilled person because many technologists are shy and introverted. Post flyers around the CS labs. Go off-campus to other universities.

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Marketing Platform Independence

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

and more," which the long-time readers already know I think is dumb , and their " About Us " copy is similarly useless: "We’ve embarked on an exciting quest to let even more people realize the tremendous potential of social networks as a real-time information platforms.". In my opinion SEO is the same way. Oh happy day!

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

blog.expensify.com

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. They’ve tried everything. Everything, that is, but.NET.

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