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1. June 4th, 2010
   aweissman

   “Thousands of brands and bloggers are now up and running on the service. Yahoo, MySpace, The Huffington Post, Politico, Pepsi, NPR, Scribd, Toys”R”Us, CSPAN, Dailymotion, IMDB, the New York Times, Bravo, Mozilla and Amazon are just a few of the great brands that have joined in the last few months. Search for yahoo.it, 4sq.com, huff.to, dai.ly, toysr.us, n.pr, scri.bi, politi.co, amzn.to, or bravo.ly and you’ll see thousands of impressions happening in real time.

   bit.ly blog - Welcome to bit.ly Pro (via rafer)

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2. April 3rd, 2010
   aweissman

   “The whole notion of having “an issue” really underscores how publishers still don’t understand what is going on with digital content. I, like most of the market, don’t want to read a compilation of content like I had to do with print. I want digitally connected content that brings together many sources topically or theme

   Jeff Nolan, in a great essay

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3. March 9th, 2010
   aweissman

   

   shotzombies:

   Scaling Issues

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4. March 3rd, 2010
   aweissman

   3.03.10

   Venmo: Say Goodbye to Cash

   (via shotzombies)

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5. March 1st, 2010
   aweissman

   “These aren’t deals (one of my least favorite words in our business), these are companies run by real people riding a very real roller coaster of emotions, adrenaline and unmet expectations

   Truer words have never been spoken, from BRYCE DOT VC: Deal Fever

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6. February 16th, 2010
   aweissman

   

   Bathroom in Miami airport

   gbattle:

   URL Shortened Custom Keyword Graffiti Found In Bathroom.

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7. February 10th, 2010
   aweissman

   

   shotzombies:

   Coffee (Ethiopia) from Square Mile (London) in the Hario v60 (Japan) meets the Bitly mascot (Manhattan) in Brooklyn.  The mug is from Bisbee, Arizona.  Happy snow day!

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8. January 25th, 2010
   aweissman

   

   gbattle:

   The original MTV fish tank in the betaworks offices. Those appear to be Neon Tetras if my tropical fish knowledge serves me correctly.

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9. January 18th, 2010
   neilw

   Lead Developer wanted for Twitterfeed (betaworks)

   Twitterfeed is looking for a lead engineer to work with our distributed team and to take control of the roadmap, architect new features, and implement availability and performance guarantees.
   
   Twitterfeed is by far the largest publisher to Twitter, with almost 500,000 users pushing 800,000 feeds to Twitter. When the web is changing from a place where you find content to where content finds you, Twitterfeed is well placed to do great things in this space. Twitterfeed is part of betaworks, the team behind Summize (acquired by Twitter), bit.ly, Tweetdeck and chartbeat.
   
   We’re looking for
   
   + experienced web developer
   + strong experience with dynamic languages (python, ruby, etc) and web
   frameworks (django, rails, etc)
   + expertise at managing mysql, legacy data models, and schema migration
   + experience ensuring mysql availability and redundancy -
   multi-master, mmm, replication, partitioning, drdb, etc.
   + know how to properly normalize a data model as well as when to denormalize
   + strong unix/linux background
   + conversant in html/css/javascript
   + experience with non-relational data stores (mongo, tokyo, etc)
   + experience with asynchronous processing and message queues
   (rabbitmq, gearman, starling, etc)
   + experience with caching infrastructure (nginx, varnish, squid, etc)
   
   obsessions:
   + performance
   + caching
   + availability
   + measurement
   
   
   a resume is helpful but would love a link to your blog and linkedin profile.
   
   Tony Haile
   email tony (at) betaworks (dot) com

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10. December 21st, 2009
    rafer

    “There is the possibility that a true musical underground, in the archaic sense, could only really exist if it was offline. But that seems utterly beyond imagining, doesn’t it?

    Simon Reynolds (via newspeedwayboogie)

    Rafer sez:
    It is beyond imagining, but it’s also unnecessary. Underground culture movements are a restricted accessed system like any other. The ‘net does that well. It’s what invites, registration, and passwords are for. I heard some smart guys invested in something analogous called Ideeli.

    

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