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Why you should build your product in public

Apr21
by on April 21, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

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Ryan Hoover is the co-creator of Product Hunt and EIR at Tradecraft. Visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. Last week I created mockups of an improved comment system for Product Hunt. The design certainly wasn’t perfect. It wasn’t even complete. But I shared them anyway and am glad I did. Within 24 hours I received over 50 annotated pieces of feedback from the community. I quickly discovered what they liked: Found unclear: Concerning: Broken: And best of all, new ideas to make Product Hunt even better: I began to wonder why more startups aren’t doing this. The benefits of building in public…

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Microsoft and Motorola Solutions sign patent licensing agreement covering Android and Chrome OS

Apr21
by on April 21, 2014 at 4:15 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Microsoft and Motorola Solutions today announced a patent licensing agreement that will allow the companies to share technology. While the duo didn’t reveal too many details, the deal does provide worldwide coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for Motorola Solutions’ devices running Android and Chrome OS. It’s worth emphasizing that Motorola Solutions is a separate company from that of Motorola Mobility, a mobile company Google recently acquired and is now selling to Lenovo. Motorola Solutions provides communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers. “Microsoft and Motorola Solutions share a respect for intellectual property and a commitment to fair and…

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Flickr shows it could still be the ultimate home for storing and sharing photos

Apr21
by on April 21, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Insider

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While I was studying photography in college, Flickr was the best place to store, organize and share photos. Almost everyone with a DSLR used it, poring over photosets and meticulously crafted albums. As smartphones grew in popularity, casual and professional photographers alike adopted mobile-centric apps such as Instagram. Flickr was slow to recognize this trend, however, and its relevancy slowly faded as the volume of photos captured, edited and shared from mobile devices grew. I’ve always wanted a superlative service that offers the best of both. A place where I can store and share all of my favorite photos, regardless of…

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Why your favorite TV shows keep breaking the Internet

Apr21
by on April 21, 2014 at 3:06 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider, Rackspace

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Franklin Morris is a senior writer for Rackspace. If you were hoping to catch the recent premiere of “Game of Thrones” on HBO Go, you were likely met instead with the “spinning wheel of non-loading hopelessness and despair”—a name some customers have bestowed upon HBO’s error message. It was a case of history repeating itself. Just a few weeks earlier, “True Detective” took down the network’s streaming service for the entire evening of its highly anticipated finale. In each case fans of these shows took to the Twittersphere to voice their dissatisfaction. HBO and its parent company Time Warner issued apologies….

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Facebook’s referral traffic share grew over 37% in Q1 2014, Pinterest was up 48%, Twitter increased only 1%

Apr21
by on April 21, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media

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Social discovery and sharing platform Shareaholic today released a report covering referral traffic data from the eight largest social media sites in Q1 2014. In short, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Google+ all gained, while YouTube and LinkedIn lost. As with previous reports, however, if we take a closer look at the data, it becomes clear that only the top three are really worth considering. Here’s the breakdown from Shareholic, which tracks 400 million users visiting its network of 300,000 publishers: The month columns show the “share of visits,” a percentage of overall traffic (direct, social referrals, organic search,…

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