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Facebook is retiring its Like Box plugin on June 23

Apr19
by on April 19, 2015 at 7:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Facebook has quietly announced it’s retiring it’s old embeddable Like Box on June 23. The Like Box is variant of the embeddable Like Button that allows you to Like a page from other sites. The embed would also show off some of the other people who liked a given Page. The company recommends you instead use the newer Page Plugin, which functions similarly, but looks a little cleaner and is able to pull in content feeds from your Facebook Page if you want. Keep in mind that you’ll have to add in the newest Graph API and remove the old…

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What startups can learn from nature

Apr19
by on April 19, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, lessons, startup

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This post first appeared on Buffer. In a forest, there is absolutely no waste. Every single element is reused in a continuous cycle. A tree produces leaves. The leaves fall to the ground and become compost. And the forest uses every last ounce of the compost and puts it back into its ecosystem. We have the exact same idea for Buffer’s organizational design as we move towards a self-managing company. Without any processes, save four essential ones, there is little to no occurrence of waste. As an example, we recently completed our fifth Buffer retreat in Sydney, Australia, and we changed the…

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Write ugly: How to write 20 posts in two days

Apr19
by on April 19, 2015 at 12:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's, LifeHacks, productivity, writing

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This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. Despite spending the last half decade writing for a living, I still have a serious issue with getting down to the ugly, dirty business of putting words on paper. I sit and stare at the blank page while every blink of the cursor reminds me that time is definitely not on my side and that I need to just get to it. Despite all of the lessons you can read online about how to best put together a blog post or any other piece of writing, the core issue remains: how do you just get to…

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Write ugly: How to write 20 posts in two days

Apr19
by on April 19, 2015 at 12:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's, LifeHacks, productivity, writing

writing2
This post originally appeared on the Crew blog. Despite spending the last half decade writing for a living, I still have a serious issue with getting down to the ugly, dirty business of putting words on paper. I sit and stare at the blank page while every blink of the cursor reminds me that time is definitely not on my side and that I need to just get to it. Despite all of the lessons you can read online about how to best put together a blog post or any other piece of writing, the core issue remains: how do you just get to…

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What I learned from sacking 100 employees and losing $1.5 million

Apr19
by on April 19, 2015 at 9:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur, failure, Profiles and Interviews, success

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Vitaliy Rizhkov is the founder of Finic, which helps turn your memories into art. He is running the startup with 100 percent transparency sharing every little detail such as all financials, salaries, hiring, firing, successes and failures on his blog StartupLabs. This post first appeared in Russian on SiliconRus. I started with nothing. I had absolutely no experience with online business. All I knew was that there were a lot of people making good money through online businesses. I wanted to do the same. I had nobody I could ask for advice. When the 2008 financial crisis hit Canada I was involved in building…

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