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The Time For Content Marketing Is Now(distilled.net)
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How would you build a startup to make jazz more popular?
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Google's new "freshness" update. Affects ~35% of searches(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by topcat31 15y ago
This is an interesting idea - especially the API aspect of it. Have you considered partnering with some well known players to help launch the service? Especially given the negative experiences people have with Groupon I think some social pr
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How To Use Google Docs to Build MVPs And Other Quick Tools(appsumo.com)
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by topcat31 15y ago
This is definitely on the roadmap, this initial implementation is just the bare bones. One unusual thing with SEOmoz is that they get a huge volume of traffic through their blog where the conversion rate (to money) is low. What I'd love to
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by topcat31 15y ago
Disclaimer: I helped implement this. I think it's a great idea. Many news sites have been displaying "visits" or "hits" next to their news stories for a while but it's never exactly clear where this comes from and how it's measured. By pull
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Why Great Content is Much More Than Blog Posts(seomoz.org)
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by topcat31 15y ago
I'm not sure if it's the norm but I know SEOmoz are desperate for top talent and are willing to pay for it. Their web-index is pretty complex and so the engineers they hire need to be highly skilled.
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by topcat31 15y ago
Seattle, WA - SEOmoz are hiring 8 positions right now http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-open-positions-at-seomoz Recently named top 10 places to work in Seattle, we're hiring both engineers and online marketing people. We have jobs to fit ever
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The difficult bridge between basic code and deploying to servers(tomcritchlow.com)
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by topcat31 15y ago
Especially if used in conjunction with a text-extraction API such as Alchemy: http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/text/ That way you only get the text of the page, stored in a cache.
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I'm looking for a design ninja to be my virtual partner in crime(tomcritchlow.com)
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by topcat31 16y ago
Thanks for posting - this post was inspired by this Hacker News comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347428
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by topcat31 16y ago
No problems - glad you like it :) One really annoying thing to note is that Google Docs doesn't play nicely when calling YQL and Yahoo Pipes. I'm not sure if it's Google or Yahoo screwing things up but it's annoying as hell because a combin
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Google Doc For Tracking Facebook/Twitter Shares for any URL
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by topcat31 16y ago
An RSS feed is definitely on my todo list! Unfortunately making playlists isn't possible in the metadata API (and you can't use the full libspotify api on appengine) so that's not going to happen for a while I think... I wish playlist stuff
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by topcat31 16y ago
This is done just for the love! :)
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by topcat31 16y ago
Hey, this is my latest project. Hope you like it. A few details for the hackers: Built on: - Google appengine - Pyhton APIs used: - Topsy api ( http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/ ) - Spotify metadata api ( http://developer.spotify.com/en
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My weekend hack project - the top tweeted spotify albums from the last 24hrs(fyspotify.appspot.com)
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by topcat31 16y ago
I'm not familiar with powerpivot - is that a new feature in Excel2010? Have a good link to share?
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Creating a team of passionate people is the way to scale marketing(hugoguzman.com)
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by topcat31 16y ago
There are lots of very interesting things in this post - one of the most interesting long term changes I see is that Google are now admitting that you can lobby for algorithm changes. I can imagine in another 12 months there will be vocal l
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Ask HN: what internal memes do your startups have?
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by topcat31 16y ago
I don't think the plugin works via cookies though does it? Might be wrong....
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by topcat31 16y ago
A few thoughts and requests: 1) I'd love to use this tool but because of my job still need to look at the "official" search results from time to time. Is it possible to allow &pws=0 override the blocked sites so &pws=0 both session-
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by topcat31 16y ago
This is a phenomenal post. I completely agree that it improves things - we recently got a massive TV in the office at Distilled to show off some key metrics using Geckoboard: http://yfrog.com/h3uhzrj
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by topcat31 16y ago
For music last.fm does a wonderful "gigs in your city" RSS feed.
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by topcat31 16y ago
Feels like trunk.ly has the data to be able to do this... I don't know much about recommendation engines but seems fairly easy to be able to see what links I share, see similar users and then recommend me things I might have missed.
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by topcat31 16y ago
I visited the Zappos office while I was in Las Vegas recently (proof: http://dis.tl/haPmaA ) and must attest to how unbelievably amazing and awesome their offices are. The culture and morale is simply breathtaking. That said, I think that

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