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Twitter’s latest experiment turns favorites into retweets (and it’s annoying lots of people)

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by on August 17, 2014 at 4:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, twitter experiment

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Twitter is back in experimental mode, but its latest test is annoying people. A sizable number of users are seeing tweets favorited by others in their timeline, just like retweets. They are also getting notifications when others follow someone new. This was first brought to my attention a couple of weeks ago, but Twitter appears to have widened the experiment to cover more users over the past few days. TNW’s own editor-in-chief Martin Bryant, Re/Code’s Peter Kafka and prominent US investor Hunter Walk are among those seeing these notifications. Twitter filling my feed with stuff I didn’t ask for – stuff other people follow and fav. pic.twitter.com/IVOViGF1QW — Peter Kafka…

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Are you still just a wantrepreneur? 7 ways to validate your startup idea

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by on August 17, 2014 at 4:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Ariel Rosenthal is a co-founder at Xprt, a new startup looking to save people the hassle and the headache of doing extensive research before buying a product. I don’t know if you ever experienced a eureka moment – a second when everything comes together and an amazing idea pops into your head. As someone who is in the business of creating new things and has seen various ideas blossom into fully functional products, I can tell you that there is nothing like that feeling. You get excited, you can’t sleep, and you start imagining how the future is going to look. It is very…

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What I learned in my first year as a product designer

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by on August 17, 2014 at 12:05 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Alvin Hsia is a Product Designer at Edmodo. This post originally appeared on his Medium blog. For the past year, I’ve had an incredible experience contributing to the design team at Edmodo, a K-12 education startup backed by Greylock Partners, Benchmark Capital and Union Square Ventures. While I wasn’t new to building stuff, having hacked projects together with friends in college, the last 12 months have afforded me the opportunity to ship world-class software alongside seasoned veterans. Now that I have a couple of product cycles under my belt, I’ve learned a lot about what to do (and what not to) when working…

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