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Google's Social Strategy
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 920 posts.
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My startup story: from big idea to thriving business in 8 short years
In the summer of 2003 while still working for my first startup I’ve got a “big idea”: social news reader. Imagine something like Google Reader with Priority Inbox and social recommendations. I was thinking about it day and night. I couldn’t sleep and was working through it in my head while lying awake in bed. I’ve got…
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Mint’s Original Marketing Plan (circa 2007)
by Paul Hontz
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Why T-shirts matter at tech companies
During my tenure at LinkedIn, I’ve held a wide variety of roles and responsibilities within the company. Some are fairly public (as described on my LinkedIn profile). Others are the the typ…
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Google acquires ITA Software
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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YouTube is going Live
So head over to www.youtube.com/live to check out some of the live streams taking place over the next few days. And don’t forget to tune in to the The DigiTour live stream tonight at 7pm PST . Log in to engage with live streamers and the rest of the YouTube community using our live comments feature. As always, let us…
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Google offers researchers 1 billion computing core-hours
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Let us pay for this service so it won't go down
Google, please set a price — any price — that you determine is necessary to keep anyone’s account running smoothly at all times. I’ll gladly pay it. I don’t care if it’s $100 a year or $1,000 a year. It would be worth it.
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Facebook Ads: The Cheapest Traffic You'll Ever Buy
Whenever people talk about Facebook Ads (or even more generally "Can Facebook justify their $50bn valuation?") the conversation always tends to swing around to how poorly Facebook Ads perform. ...
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Patents and innovation
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Success, and Farming vs. Mining
Let’s come up with an analogy and then torture it like we’re the Cheney administration: imagine you’ve just purchased a plot of land. What a...
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Android
Roughly six months ago, I put up a blog post suggesting Android was going to be the dominant mobile phone operating system and that developers interested in the largest user bases ought to start developing for it in preference to iOS. As you might expect, I got a lot of heat from Apple fanboys for […]
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App store shenanigans
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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The most difficult CEO skill: managing your own psychology
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Announcing Heroku for Logo... powered by Heroku
Since launching Ruby support in 2007, we’ve been constantly expanding the platform to accommodate more application types and to make the platform more...
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Entrepreneurship is an Art not a Job
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Ag…
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