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The 7 (mostly free) tools Product Hunt used to build its early-stage community

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by on August 8, 2014 at 7:47 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Roundups

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Erik Torenberg is Product Hunt’s first hire. This article originally appeared on the CMX Hub. I’ve been thinking about building online and offline communities for the past few years. Community is at the center of what I do, from planning in-person events (rap cyphers, book clubs, happy hours) to creating online and scalable communities (rapt.fm, Product Hunt). As Product Hunt’s first hire, I work with our founder Ryan Hoover on community, marketing, business development, and all the other random things that people at early-stage startups do. Product Hunt’s core is its community. It’s our lifeblood. We rely on our core users to submit, curate,…

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Anonymous email service Leak suspends service, is working on its own email backend

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by on August 8, 2014 at 6:47 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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After going live less than two weeks ago, Leak, the anonymous emailing site, has suspended service citing issues with email providers MailChimp and SendGrid. The emails sent from Leak through the email services were not opt-in, a violation of both companies’ terms of service. Leak looked like it was spamming people. The last thing either email company wants is someone using its service to send messages to people they didn’t ask for. Co-Founder Laurent Desserrey told TNW, “Seb and I didn’t expect that people would be sending that many leaks over the week. It’s actually a good issue.” A good issue that is…

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Skype reverses decision to drop OS X 10.5 support, will rerelease an older compatible version ‘soon’

Aug08
by on August 8, 2014 at 5:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users recently found that Skype no longer works on their system: despite upgrading to the latest version they still can’t sign in. We got in touch with the Microsoft-owned company and after two days, we got confirmation that a solution was in the works. “We have a Skype version for Mac OS X 10.5 users which will soon be available for download,” a Skype spokesperson told TNW. This is all part of a much broader issue, which has also affected Windows Phone 7 users. Here’s an excerpt from yesterday’s story: In June, Skype announced plans…

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The 10 best SlideShares every social media enthusiast must read

Aug08
by on August 8, 2014 at 4:44 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Roundups, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. One of my favorite visual social networks—and one that probably flies under the radar compared to other visual spots—is SlideShare. Browse through the featured slidedecks, and you can find big ideas and helpful strategies condensed into a couple dozen simple, succinct slides. There are few better ways to consume killer content so quickly. In writing about how to create a SlideShare presentation that gets results, I ran across a number of presentations that inspired me, educated me, and wowed me. There’s a lot of great stuff out there! I thought it might be apt to highlight a…

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Facebook unveils Autoscale, its load-balancing system that achieves an average power saving of 10-15%

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by on August 8, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media

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Facebook today revealed details about Autoscale, a system for power-efficient load balancing that has been rolled out to production clusters in its data centers. The company says it has “demonstrated significant energy savings.” For those who don’t know, load balancing refers to distributing workloads across multiple computing resources, in this case servers. The goal is to optimize resource use, which can mean different things depending on the task at hand. In short, Facebook has switched its load-balancing policy from a modified round-robin algorithm (every server receives roughly the same number of page requests and utilizes roughly the same amount of…

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