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45,114 | orlenko | 2007-08-22T05:52:38 | Using timeout with xmlrpclib | null | http://blog.bjola.ca/2007/08/using-timeout-with-xmlrpclib.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,123 | far33d | 2007-08-22T06:27:28 | How/Why they started conduit labs | http://blog.conduitlabs.com/2007/08/21/why-we-started-conduit-labs/ | 2 | 1 | [
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45,130 | far33d | 2007-08-22T07:24:41 | Google cooks up ad strategy for YouTube | null | http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/22/BU1FRMNHI.DTL | 4 | 1 | [
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45,132 | giddo | 2007-08-22T07:26:50 | Why it could make sense for amazon to send users away with ads | read/writ-web wrote about amazon.com placing third party ads on their site and asks why. in this short post, there are 4 possible answers listed why it could indeed make sense for amazon to place ads on their site. | http://www.web-jungle.com/2007/08/21/why-it-could-make-sense-for-amazon-to-send-users-away-with-ads/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,137 | tim | 2007-08-22T07:42:03 | Investors to Web Start-Ups:Where's the Advertising? | http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118765700693403584.html | 1 | 0 | [
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45,148 | rms | 2007-08-22T09:01:48 | NYT obit of Joybubbles: He hacked the phone system by whistling | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/us/20engressia.html?ex=1345262400&en=9b35c8bc1486822e&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | 1 | 1 | [
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45,153 | ordersup | 2007-08-22T10:09:51 | Deadpool: Five Stupidest Startups of the Summer | http://valleywag.com/tech/deadpool/five-stupidest-startups-of-the-summer-292031.php | 19 | 5 | [
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45,154 | lkozma | 2007-08-22T10:17:00 | Isolatr anti-social network | http://isolatr.com/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,161 | jgamman | 2007-08-22T11:08:19 | The project generator | it took a few spins of the wheel but i'm launching my new 'computerized rotating sex toy' website after a suitable stealth time... | http://www.tdbspecialprojects.com/ | 1 | 1 | [
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45,162 | kul | 2007-08-22T11:35:09 | Auctomatic starts an in-house eBay business | anybody need 1Gb Mac RAM? | http://blog.auctomatic.com/?p=51 | 11 | 4 | [
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45,164 | Keios | 2007-08-22T11:51:00 | Content Aware Resizing of Images - Awesome | This will take you to a .mov file. If you want to see an embedded clip instead use this link -- <a href="http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/66481/detail/" rel="nofollow">http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/66481/detail/</a><p>Its a very impressive technology. | http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il.nyud.net:8090/arik/IMRet-All.mov | 6 | 3 | [
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45,170 | tojileon | 2007-08-22T12:21:14 | Tracking carbon through your phone | null | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6957235.stm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,173 | brlewis | 2007-08-22T12:37:08 | Google Earth adds Sky (virtual planetarium) | http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/sky-final-frontier.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,174 | transburgh | 2007-08-22T12:48:40 | How Grey Is Your Valley: Making Money From Open Source | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/22/how-grey-is-your-valley-making-money-from-open-source/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,175 | pbnaidu | 2007-08-22T12:57:46 | What hosted service for SCCM (SVN or CVS) do you use for your company? | I am looking for a hosted service for SCCM (SVN or CVS or anything else) of my source code. I am working with a friend of mine who lives in different state than me and we are collaborating on a project and would like to maintain a single source code repository. The service could be similar to sourceforge.net but I can't use it as this project is not a open source project. Any recommendations for such a service and advantages/disadvantages of it will be greatly appreciated. | 1 | 5 | [
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45,180 | transburgh | 2007-08-22T13:19:05 | FunAdvice.com Fastest Growing Questions & Answers Site, Co-Founded by Former Yahoo | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/funadvice-com-fastest-growing-questions-answers-site | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,183 | jkush | 2007-08-22T13:25:51 | Virtual Recruiting For Real-World Jobs | I don't know if I think this is cool or stupid. | http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13851345 | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Virtual Recruiting for Real-World Jobs | 2007-08-22T00:01:00-04:00 | By
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Virtual Recruiting for Real-World Jobs
Avatars gather in the Network in World courtyard in the online world Second Life, site of the virtual recruiting fair.
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Avatars gather in the Network in World courtyard in the online world Second Life, site of the virtual recruiting fair.
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Q&A: Adventures in Virtual Recruiting While the venue may be different, some of the same rules apply to virtual job interviews as those in the real world. Dave Lefkow, who advises companies on recruitment technology, discusses the virtues of virtual recruiting.
There's an unusual job fair taking place this week, but you can't get there by plane or car or drop off your resume in person. You have to travel in cyberspace — to a virtual world called Second Life, the online community where people — or their avatars — hang out for enjoyment, and increasingly, work and business. The job fair, organized by TMP Worldwide, a recruitment-advertising firm, includes recruiters from Accenture, EMC Corporation, GE Money and U.S. Cellular. Three Accenture recruiters walk around inside a large white building. When it's your avatar's turn for an interview, you get to go inside and meet them. You can type questions and answers, or talk. For some, this proves to be technically daunting. Glitches result in walking through windows instead of doors or having a momentary lack of clothing, for example.
So can you really interview job applicants this way? Warren Ashton, a recruiting manager at Microsoft, which took part in an earlier job fair this past spring, says it's especially helpful when you're hiring people like software engineers. "You get to know a candidate better," says Polly Pearson, an EMC vice president. "You see what they chose to wear, you see what they laugh at or what they interact with." Software engineer, Carlos Krefft, who took part in the earlier online job fair waited in a virtual lobby for Hewlett-Packard with a teddy bear and an angel, alongside a guy in a suit with a laptop. Krefft had a small mishap: He mistakenly handed a greeter a beer instead of his resume. She didn't seem to mind. Krefft ended up landing a job elsewhere.
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45,190 | markpeterdavis | 2007-08-22T13:44:38 | Competition: Provide Insight When You Meet With VCs | After you have set the stage about your company's competitive positioning with your Investment Overview slide, be prepared to take a deeper dive into the competitive landscape. More often than not, VCs won't know the competitive landscape for your marketplace off hand so be sure to have information about all of the existing competitors. | http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/08/competition-pro.html | 2 | 1 | [
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45,196 | vlad | 2007-08-22T14:16:31 | Twitter Partners with MTV Video Music Awards | http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9764091-1.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,198 | dawie | 2007-08-22T14:17:52 | Full Web 2.0 API List | http://techmagazine.ws/full-web-20-api-list/ | 6 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,202 | knewjax | 2007-08-22T14:25:14 | Pick up today's Metro in Boston | I havent seen it yet but i guess there is a section in todays Metro on Boston Entrepreneurs under 40.<p> | 1 | 1 | [
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45,203 | terpua | 2007-08-22T14:32:02 | YouTube to introduce semi-transparent ads | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/22/youtube-to-introduce-semi-transparent-ads/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,204 | jcwentz | 2007-08-22T14:32:46 | I Knew How To Validate An Email Address Until I Read The RFC | null | http://haacked.com/archive/2007/08/21/i-knew-how-to-validate-an-email-address-until-i.aspx | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,206 | jcwentz | 2007-08-22T14:35:35 | Bogus search engine pulls plans for IPO | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/technology/22accoona.html?ex=1345435200&en=29767cf603e05bea&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss | 10 | 3 | [
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45,208 | irrelative | 2007-08-22T14:37:25 | The Shrinking Python Web Framework World | http://blog.ianbicking.org/2007/08/21/the-shrinking-python-web-framework-world/ | 15 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,210 | terpua | 2007-08-22T14:39:09 | Firefox Campus Edition.. Say What? | null | http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/08/21/firefox-campus-edition-say-what/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,214 | farmer | 2007-08-22T14:51:46 | Dear Palm: It's time for an intervention | null | http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/21/dear-palm-its-time-for-an-intervention/ | 9 | 1 | [
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45,217 | damien | 2007-08-22T14:55:49 | A Morphable Model for the Synthesis of 3D Faces - Very cool [video] | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSRA8GpWIrA | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,218 | farmer | 2007-08-22T14:55:55 | E46.MIT.EDU | null | http://e46.mit.edu/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,219 | kkim | 2007-08-22T14:58:31 | Seth's Blog: Business card mistakes | http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/08/business-card-m.html | 14 | 11 | [
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45,227 | eastsidegringo | 2007-08-22T15:19:44 | Is there a US alternative to Second Life? | Habbo is like Second Life in Japan. From the article:<p>Could you conduct market research in a week and come back with the buying and spending habits, and brand preferences, of 42,000 teenagers around the world? Sulake Corporation, developer of the Habbo virtual world for teenagers, did this very thing. And they're going back in September for another data mining run. You can read the full story in CRM Daily, Mining Virtual Worlds for Market Data. | http://www.hunterhost.com/64/mining-habbo-data/ | 4 | 3 | [
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45,231 | walesmd | 2007-08-22T15:34:35 | How to Handle Forgotten Passwords | User management is a necessary evil within the world of web development, especially as the sites and applications we develop become more community oriented. Although you may be excited about building your application itself, "supporting" requirements like user management should not be taken lightly and should reflect the professionalism and experience the rest of your application does. | http://www.michaelwales.com/2007/08/handling-forgotten-passwords/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | Page not found · GitHub Pages | null | null |
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45,233 | entrepreneur | 2007-08-22T15:39:29 | What is an Internet Business? | http://mindfulentrepreneur.com/blog/2007/08/22/what-is-an-internet-business/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,254 | ivankirigin | 2007-08-22T16:54:51 | How the Wikipedia Scanner Works | null | http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wikipedia-scanner.htm | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | How the Wikipedia Scanner Works | 2007-08-21T03:00:00-04:00 | Jacob Silverman |
If you've ever used the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, you might have noticed that editing an article is as easy as clicking the "edit this page" tab, making your changes and clicking "save." But it's this ease of editing that's both Wikipedia's greatest strength and its weakness: Anyone can edit Wikipedia -- even anonymously.
Stories frequently surface about an organization or individual altering a Wikipedia entry, either maliciously or for the sake of a practical joke. But limiting people's ability to easily edit Wikipedia would infringe on one of its most celebrated features and what's arguably the key to its success.
Wikipedia has a variety of tools to deal with malicious editors. The site offers extensive tutorials about what it looks for in a good encyclopedia entry and how to clean up articles. Many Wikipedians -- frequent editors of the encyclopedia -- show fierce loyalty to the site, acting as its watchdogs and correcting potentially damaging edits. Wikipedia keeps a record of all changes so that a defaced or otherwise unsatisfactory article can easily revert to an older version. The site also has several features that can be used or requested by Wikipedians, including locking down pages, blocking certain users and flagging articles that violate the site's guidelines.
Despite all of these tools, Wikipedians can't be everywhere. With more than 1.9 million English-language articles alone, the potential for abuse is enormous, especially by anonymous users [source: Wikimedia]. Enter the WikiScanner, a free program unveiled in August 2007 by Virgil Griffith, a graduate student studying computation and neural systems at the California Institute of Technology and a visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute.
Whenever an unregistered, anonymous user edits a Wikipedia entry, the site logs the user's IP address, the unique string of numbers that identifies each computer connected to the Internet. The WikiScanner uses these records to trace the IP addresses of anonymous Wikipedia editors. By comparing the IP addresses against a database of companies that own them, the Scanner can name the editor, or at least the organization responsible for the user's access.
The results have been astounding -- tens of millions of anonymous edits, performed by more than 180,000 organizations, some of them in clear violation of Wikipedia policy. Among the many organizations cited: the FBI, CIA, Britain's Labour Party, the Vatican, Wal-Mart, the Republican Party, the Church of Scientology, Dell Computers, Microsoft, Apple and the United Nations.
In this article, we'll take a close look at how the WikiScanner works, look at some particularly controversial or simply bizarre examples of anonymous editing and consider some of the reactions to the WikiScanner. We'll also show you how you can use the WikiScanner to see what some organizations and companies may be up to on Wikipedia.
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Creating the Wikipedia Scanner
Exposed by the Wikipedia Scanner
Consequences of the Wikipedia Scanner
Creating the Wikipedia Scanner
In creating the WikiScanner, Virgil Griffith took advantage of one of Wikipedia's main features -- its extensive records and backlogs. To see an example of what these records look like, simply click on the "history" tab at the top of a Wikipedia entry. There you can see the names of registered users who edited the article, the IP addresses of anonymous editors and notes on changes. You can also easily compare different versions of an article or leave a message for an editor, even an anonymous one.
Wikipedia makes it possible to download a complete version of the encyclopedia, including every article and the records of all edits performed. Griffith downloaded the complete encyclopedia and extracted all of the anonymous changes and their associated IP addresses. He came up with 34,417,493 anonymous edits made from Feb. 7, 2002 through Aug. 4, 2007 from 2,668,095 different IP addresses [source: Griffith].
A variety of services, some of them publicly available, make it possible to trace IP addresses to the corporations, government entities and organizations that own them. Using software from IP2Location, a company that sells programs that allow users to match IP addresses with their owners, Griffith found that 187,529 organizations had performed anonymous edits of Wikipedia entries [source: Griffith].
That's about all there is to it. It may seem like a simple idea in theory, but no one before Virgil Griffith had taken a comprehensive look at anonymous Wikipedia edits and tried to find all of the users behind them. Now accessible through Griffith's Web site, the WikiScanner allows users to search for specific organizations, a single IP address, a range of IP addresses, or a Wikipedia entry. After its initial launch, Griffith temporarily disabled some of the site's features due to the heavy traffic it was receiving but later returned with enough bandwidth "to handle the web traffic of a small country" [source: Griffith].
Several Web sites, notably "Wired," have established blogs or forums where users can post their favorite WikiScanner results. Griffith's site has a selection of "Editor's Picks" that link to edits made by prominent organizations, divided into categories like government, education, policy, corporate and news. He also provides other intriguing lists, such as the number of anonymous edits from .gov addresses. NASA comes in first with 6,846 edits [source: Griffith]. The Department of Defense Network Information Center, the registered owner of the army.mil domain name, comes in first among .mil addresses with 43,823 edits [source: Griffith].
So what kind of results did the WikiScanner dig up? Read on to find out.
Exposed by the Wikipedia Scanner
With more than 34 million anonymous edits performed by 187,529 organizations, it will take quite a while before anyone sifts through the data and finds all of the potentially controversial edits exposed by the WikiScanner. And of course, anonymous editing will go on as long as it remains a feature of Wikipedia. But many organizations have already been outed by the WikiScanner. In this section, we'll look at what Griffith and other users have found.
Not all anonymous editing is malicious. Some of it comes from users who may not want to register for the site or who want to fix a simple grammatical error without bothering to log in. Many of the edits uncovered by the WikiScanner were harmless. Even so, some of the anonymous edits seem malicious or designed to serve an organization's particular interests. Others appear to make the articles into an advertisement or press release. (Wikipedia has a tag it uses to flag articles that appear to be advertisements for a company or product.)
Diebold Election Systems received a lot of attention for the anonymous edits performed by people with access to their network. The maker of electronic voting machines had already been subject to controversy about the quality of its machines and contributions made by the company CEO to George Bush's political campaigns. The WikiScanner revealed that in November 2005, 15 paragraphs that discussed these controversies were deleted by a user traced to a Diebold-owned IP address. Soon after, another user put the deleted articles back in the article and issued the anonymous editor a warning on his "talk page."
A user traced to a Democratic party IP address edited entries about conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, calling him "idiotic," "racist" and a "bigot" [source: Wikipedia]. The editor also wrote that most of Limbaugh's audience was "legally retarded," described his point of view as "ridiculous" and linked the word "ridiculous" to Wikipedia's article on Conservatism [source: Wikipedia]. Users of Democratic Party computers also performed simple copy edits on articles about presumably uncontroversial topics, such as British tennis player Tim Henman, burrito chain Baja Fresh and green roofs.
Someone at the National Rifle Association made changes to a page about rumors surrounding the Sept. 11 attacks. The anonymous editor altered a paragraph to draw a connection between the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11 attacks [source: Griffith]. Someone at the same organization twice edited the Wikipedia entry about the history of the liger, a cross between a male lion and a female tiger [source: Griffith].
Besides various spats between political rivals, the WikiScanner revealed instances of companies editing pages about their competitors. Apple edited Microsoft pages, and someone at Microsoft did so for Apple. British newspaper "The Guardian" edited an entry for competing paper "The Times."
Many of the anonymous edits are quite humorous, especially when considering the source. A CIA web surfer contributed a long entry about lightsaber combat. Someone at DARPA, the Department of Defense's highly sophisticated research agency, edited entries about "The Real World: Denver," actor Shia LaBeouf and hockey player Bill Guerin. None of those edits appeared malicious or against Wikipedia policy.
Consequences of the Wikipedia Scanner
On his personal Web site, Griffith says that he came up with the idea for the WikiScanner after hearing that Congressmen were whitewashing their own Wikipedia entries by taking out negative statements or replacing negative words with positive ones [source: Griffith]. For example, a "controversial" or "temperamental" politician might instead be called "dynamic."
Among the other reasons for creating the WikiScanner, Griffith said that he wished "to create minor public relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike" and "to see what 'interesting organizations' (which I am neutral towards) are up to" [source: Griffith]. He also jokes that he wants "to improve virgil.gr's Google pagerank [sic] for the query 'virgil.'"
The announcement of the WikiScanner spawned numerous newspaper articles and spurred amateur detectives around the world to go hunting for nefarious editing. It appears Griffith achieved one of his goals in that many corporations now face questions over the practices of people with access to their networks.
If the WikiScanner traces an edit to a company's IP address, it doesn't mean that an employee performed the edits or that the company sanctioned or ordered the action. The program can't trace edits to a specific person -- only the IP address and the company that owns it. But Griffith noted that if the edit was performed during the workday, then the person who made the changes was likely "either an agent of that company or a guest that was allowed access to their network" [source: Griffith].
Many of the anonymous edits represent violations of Wikipedia's guidelines, especially its conflict of interest (COI) behavioral rule. Editors who have potential COIs are not prevented from editing articles that may raise a conflict of interest, but they are advised to use discretion [source: Wikipedia]. Some organizations are clearly editing articles to their benefit, likely violating Wikipedia rules in the process.
One of Wikipedia's fundamental principles is maintaining a neutral point of view (NPOV), which Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales calls "absolute and non-negotiable" [source: Wikimedia]. Many of the controversial edits uncovered by the WikiScanner violate the NPOV principle.
Griffith said that he prefers that open platforms like Wikipedia allow users to edit anonymously, but that tools like WikiScanner could be useful in counteracting malicious editing [source: Griffith]. It could be used to help maintain the integrity of controversial pages and to track when a page is vandalized. Or, the tool may result in people being more careful about anonymous edits, performing them from home or public computer systems.
Virgil Griffith says that he has not spoken with the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, but that their comments in the press seemed to be positive. A spokesperson for Wikipedia told BBC News that the company "really [values] transparency and the scanner really takes this to another level" [source: BBC News]. The spokesman also said that the WikiScanner may in the future prevent people with conflicts of interest from editing articles [source: BBC News].
In an interview with the "Times Online," Griffith said that his next project might concern the personal information people post on social networking sites [source: Times Online].
For more information about the WikiScanner and to see lists of some of the organizations exposed by the WikiScanner, please check out the links on the next page.
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45,260 | donna | 2007-08-22T17:06:28 | Condense Your Day With the Life-Hacking FAQK | http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/08/alttext_0822 | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,263 | samb | 2007-08-22T17:09:49 | Loss vs. Gain | http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/08/loss-vs-gain.html | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,268 | nreece | 2007-08-22T17:26:32 | There is no "non-business" side | http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/archives/62 | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,269 | nreece | 2007-08-22T17:29:43 | Top 10 reasons why your startup needs a Board of Advisors | http://startupnotions.blogspot.com/2007/08/your-startup-needs-advisors.html | 2 | 2 | [
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Two years ago, I founded a biotech startup company that became profitable within its first year. Like any unaccompanied founder, I have had to make all the decisions about the business. The very best decision I ever made, though, was to bring on a team of Advisors. I created a "Board of Advisors" and invited 5 individuals to join.Here are the top 10 reasons why having this set of Advisors has been so valuable:They know a lot more than I do: My company's 5 advisors range in age from early 30s to mid 60s. Some are technical experts in my company's technology areas, some are expert project and product managers for similar types of biotechnology, and one is an experienced CEO of a biotech company. The bottom line is that no matter how smart or experienced I may be, arranging 5 other smart and experienced people gives me access to a pool of wisdom that I cannot possibly have myself.They see the forest for the trees: My advisors do not get bogged down in the specific problems of individual projects, nor are they affected by the cyclical ups and down that my startup (or indeed any company) experiences. When they give advice, it is always with the long-term best interests of the company firmly in view. In short, they are far less emotional than anyone working directly for the company. It never fails that in any situation requiring their input, at least one advisor will suggest of a possible alternative that I didn't think of. While I don't always choose to take their advice, having a clear set of intelligent options is essential.They have no ulterior motives: Specifically, their only function is to help the company be successful. I pay my advisors a fraction of the company's profits that is entirely at my discretion, but they do not have equity and have not invested their own money in the company. With shareholders, or venture capitalists in particular, financial goals of the investors can sometimes override the interests of the company. For example, sometimes VCs are more interested in earning a "solid double" on their money, rather than helping to build long-term strength and growth. By setting up my Board of Advisors as I did, the advisors self-selected themselves as people who were genuinely interested in helping the company without any promise of financial return. Thus, they have no ulterior motives. They just want to help.They can add a line to their resumes: Even though the Board of Advisors is just a fabricated entity, they can still add it to their resumes. It's clearly not the same thing as sitting on an official Board of Directors (I am the only member of my company's BoD), but nevertheless if my company continues to show rapidly increasing revenues, my advisor's roles will be a significant achievement. If they so choose, I will allow them to speak freely about their role with my company, and will even arm them with some financial data to demonstrate their value. In addition to simply being helpful to a small business, the ability to show how and how much they helped is a major incentive for my advisors.They help maintain and expand your network: Like any founder, I am really busy running the company. I don't have as much time as I once did to network by attending conferences, seminars, and the like. My advisors, however, do have the flexibility to network and they don't run in the same circles as me. Without me even asking, they help advertise my company, and have brought both potential partners and potential customers right to my doorstep. I don't think a Board of Advisors can be relied solely upon for networking, but they definitely help make up the slack created by founding/CEO responsibilities.They have access to resources: Like any startup, my company has new needs crop up all the time. When we need new services (for example legal, accounting, manufacturing, labor, etc), there's a good chance that I don't have a lot of experience in the area and don't know where to turn. But it's almost always the case that one or more of my advisors can point me either to a good resource for the services I need, or at least can send me down a path to figure it out for myself. Their advice goes well beyond "just look in the yellow pages!"They have easily manageable expectations: As I alluded to above, my comapny's advisors receive a percentage of my company's profits. When I set up this arrangement, I was clear that the percentage was entirely at my own discretion, could go up or down each year regardless of the fortunes of the company, and could be zero if the company had no profit or if the profit was needed to pay me or make investments for the company. As a result, both I and my advisors knew going in that there should be no monetary expectations and that any cash they see should be viewed as a bonus. This takes a lot of pressure off me; I am happy to share the company's wealth so that when I do well, my advisors make a little money too, but I don't worry about my advisors expecting, or even worse needing, to get paid. By clearly defining the role at the beginning, I don't need to worry about letting them down. Just being respectful, professional, and communicative is enough.They provide business opportunities: Because all of my advisors are involved in biotech, business opportunities arise from time to time. I don't mean just what I mentioned above--providing potential partners or customers--but rather that my advisors themselves are potential business partners. For example, a few times an advisor's company has developed a product concept for its own customers that is something my company could manufacture and provide as an OEM product. The pre-existing trust and familiarity between the advisor and me makes such opportunities among the easiest to execute.They don't get equity: I have implied this above, but let me state it directly. Since the advisors don't get equity, I retain full control of the company, and full benefit should it have a successful liquidity event such as getting acquired. Mind you, my advisors will do well if I sell the company. But there is a world of difference between trusting my own judgment and generosity to treat my advisors well and being legally obligated to involve them in high-level decisions or pay them a certain percentage of revenue or profits.They ultimately have no vote: This is subtly different from the other points. It boils down to the fact that if all goes well, the advisors are providing suggestions, both broad and specific, but no matter how strongly any of them feels about their position, ultimately I have full authority on all decisions. There is no question about this, and as a result the communication with the advisors is never contentious. In larger companies, supervisors often tell their direct reports to present options and alternatives in a clear and open manner, with no ulterior motives. In practice, this is very difficult to achieve in a larger company due to office politics, individual career paths, and a wide array of personalities. In my startup's case, however, this kind of transparent alternative suggestion is exactly what I get. The advisors' roles are clear, and I have the only voice of authority. There are no hard feelings about decisions, no politics, no wrangling.Like any startup, my company was cash strapped at the beginning, and even now couldn't afford to hire a full-time staff that brings what my advisors bring. But through the way we constructed the Board of Advisors, I found a way to get much of the same value with low cost and low risk. No decision could be better.
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45,273 | edu | 2007-08-22T17:37:25 | Source code for the Action Script 3 Lisp Interpreter. | http://www.solve-et-coagula.com/?p=9 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,276 | nickb | 2007-08-22T17:41:58 | iPhone Installer.app Beta (easy way to install 3rd party iPhone apps) | http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/ | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,281 | aswanson | 2007-08-22T18:02:33 | Ask pg.news.yc: How do acquisition prices get settled? | For instance, PG, how did Viaweb and Yahoo agree on a sale price? Arbitration by investment bankers, the board, etc? What is the process? How can you trust the negotiators to work in your best interest? | 23 | 18 | [
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45,283 | comatose_kid | 2007-08-22T18:06:48 | Anyone know of any great consumer electronics startups in the Bay Area? | 1 | 1 | [
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45,285 | JoshW | 2007-08-22T18:14:12 | I have a great idea, but I can't tell you - Primer in entrepreneurship | null | http://blog.jeffhaynie.us/i-have-a-great-idea-but-i-cant-tell-you.html | 5 | 1 | [
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45,288 | JoshW | 2007-08-22T18:24:49 | In Defense of Bubbles... | ... or why you can't always trust newspapers | http://blog.tomevslin.com/2007/08/in-defense-of-b.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,292 | far33d | 2007-08-22T18:36:05 | TV News 2.0 | http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/22/MNGQRMP0F.DTL | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T04:10:02 | null | train |
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45,293 | far33d | 2007-08-22T18:39:18 | Distributed Media and Comments | http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/08/distributed-med.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T08:38:17 | null | train |
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45,295 | nickb | 2007-08-22T18:40:52 | Firms, investors tend to prosper with founders at the helm | http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2007-08-21-founder-ceos_N.htm | 7 | 7 | [
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45,298 | samb | 2007-08-22T18:48:27 | Only So Many Ways to Do Something Right | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/575-but-theres-only-so-many-ways-to-do-something-right | 4 | 1 | [
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45,305 | jey | 2007-08-22T19:11:46 | Three Things to Unlearn from School | http://ben.casnocha.com/2007/07/three-things-to.html | 9 | 1 | [
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45,306 | jey | 2007-08-22T19:12:01 | Two More Things to Unlearn from School | http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/07/two-more-things.html | 17 | 1 | [
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45,309 | rms | 2007-08-22T19:30:10 | A Fear of Foreign Investments | http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/business/worldbusiness/21wealth.html?ei=5124&en=d92692f4fdb3048a&ex=1345435200&adxnnl=1&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink | 2 | 1 | [
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45,315 | ordersup | 2007-08-22T19:39:32 | Esther Dyson, Guy Kawasaki and Yossi Vardi Join TechCrunch20 Expert Panel | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/21/esther-dyson-guy-kawasaki-and-yossi-vardi-join-techcrunch20-expert-panel/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,323 | ahsonwardak | 2007-08-22T19:50:55 | The Character Traits for an Entrepreneur | I know there's much written about being a great leader and how-to posts on starting a company, but I'm more interested in those innate characteristics of a startup founder. Founders at Work had many great interviews, but I'm looking for the synthesis here of all the successful webpreneurs. | 6 | 10 | [
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45,325 | ahsonwardak | 2007-08-22T19:54:06 | Clustered Social Networks Lead to Company Innovation | Networks of networks might be a better solution for the average web user, rather than one monster catch-all social networking website. This is the opportunity that social network aggregators can exploit. | http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/clustered_social_networks_lead_to_company_innovation.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,339 | samson | 2007-08-22T20:22:59 | Video:Understanding usuabilty and the concept of social networks | I'm still no fan of facebook, but after watching this video lecture by Jared Spool I've gained a little more appreication for social networking as whole. | http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6911819973851424766 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,343 | amichail | 2007-08-22T20:25:47 | Idea: A genetic testing service to allow parents to exchange newborns to reduce conflict 16 years later | The idea here is that parents would exchange their babies according to the results of genetic testing to reduce overall conflict with their children 16 years later.<p>For example, children who tend to take risks would be assigned to parents who also take risks as determined by similarities in their risk taking genetic profile.<p>To encourage women to have healthy babies, the algorithm would take into account the health of the baby so that babies of similar health are exchanged. | 2 | 25 | [
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45,355 | transburgh | 2007-08-22T20:49:01 | Web-Site Ideas from College Students (Humor, to lighten your rough day) | http://valleywag.com/tech/clips/college-humor-reenacts-pretty-much-every-meeting-in-the-dot+com-industry-292342.php | 3 | 3 | [
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45,362 | nickb | 2007-08-22T21:08:00 | Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Crashes and Burns | http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12522-crash-destroys-rocket-ahead-of-x-prize-contest.html | 5 | 1 | [
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45,365 | nickb | 2007-08-22T21:12:23 | Microsoft announces Content Ads Beta; competes with Google's Adsense | http://adcenterblog.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!85E824269AB8C30D!509.entry | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,370 | transburgh | 2007-08-22T21:21:45 | Stocks.us: A TechMeme Clone For Stock News | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/22/stocksus-a-techmeme-clone-for-stock-news/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,374 | palish | 2007-08-22T21:31:39 | New productivity tool launches Friday. Thoughts and feature requests? | Hiya! Straight to what this tool can do for you: It will help you accomplish something every single day.<p>Fill in the blank, "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Now go out there and do it, then return to the tool and click "I did it today!" You'll be congratulated and given the opportunity to write about your experience and post a picture.<p>At that point, the picture becomes a link in your productivity chain. After you've formed a few links in the chain, I bet you won't want to stop. But if you do stop and miss a day, the entire chain breaks and everything is deleted.<p>Now, if you just want to use the tool for just that, all by your lonesome, that's just fine. But we've included a social aspect to it as well. Whenever another person is doing the same thing as you, each one of your chain links will be submitted to a centralized place where you'll be able to explore and upvote others' chain links and post comments to everyone. <p>On the front page, you'll see the top 20 popular chains and the fastest growing chains for today, as well as the top comments and featured users. Next to each chain is a plus sign that, when clicked, will enable you to do that same thing each day, too. You can also explore and find interesting chains and users.<p>The time interval is adjustable. You can do something every day, weekday, weekend or week.<p>The project was inspired by this post: <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/motivation/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret-281626.php" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/software/motivation/jerry-seinfelds-pr...</a>
<p>We're launching on Friday at 10PM CST. Everyone who registers in the first hour will start with 50 karma points, so bring a friend! If you have any feature requests, just let us know and they'll be waiting for you at launch.<p>Common wisdom is that it's dangerous to let you all in on our secret before we're out there, but we wanted to give you the opportunity to make this tool better in your eyes.<p>Thanks for your critique guys!<p>Update: First feature request will be implemented for you: A vacation switch that you can toggle on and off. If it's on, your chains are frozen and won't be deleted. | 6 | 18 | [
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45,380 | transburgh | 2007-08-22T21:54:50 | What's Fotolog worth, and why does it matter? (Rumored sale price north of $100 million) | null | http://valleywag.com/tech/online-advertising/whats-fotolog-worth-and-why-does-it-matter-292404.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,386 | Xichekolas | 2007-08-22T22:13:25 | The Skinny on Dry Loop DSL with AT&T | http://xichekolas.blogspot.com/2007/08/skinny-on-dry-loop-dsl-with-at.html | 2 | 1 | [
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45,396 | merrick33 | 2007-08-22T22:28:27 | Y Combinator's Hacker News NoFollows Some Links? | http://www.merricklozano.com/seo/y-combinators-hacker-startup-news-nofollows-some-links | 14 | 8 | [
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45,401 | toffer | 2007-08-22T22:48:06 | Jon Udell: Hosted lifebits scenarios | null | http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/08/22/hosted-lifebits-scenarios/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,420 | emmett | 2007-08-22T23:50:39 | Your server is vulnerable brute force password guessing: solution? | http://blog.emmettshear.com/post/2007/08/22/Insecure-By-Default | 12 | 8 | [
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45,424 | aswanson | 2007-08-22T23:57:29 | What was reddit like before it got "Dugg"? | I never visited the site back when, so what made it so appealing? A lot of hackers here seem to have a nostalgia for the olden days. | 5 | 11 | [
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45,440 | scrollinondubs | 2007-08-23T00:27:34 | A "Fantasy League" for Startups: audio interview with CEO of Spigit | null | http://www.grid7.com/archives/182_podcast-25-paul-pluschkell-of-spigit.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,441 | transburgh | 2007-08-23T00:28:55 | Playboy Launches Social Network: High schoolers, old dudes and your Mom cant join | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/22/playboy-launches-social-network-high-schoolers-old-dudes-and-your-mom-cant-join/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,443 | nickb | 2007-08-23T00:31:23 | Satchmo - Open source web store written in Python/Django | http://www.satchmoproject.com/ | 3 | 2 | [
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45,459 | aswanson | 2007-08-23T01:50:48 | Scaling without a database | http://fschiettecatte.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/scaling-without-a-database/ | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,462 | nickb | 2007-08-23T02:09:27 | Introduction to Statistical Thought, free PDF (you will learn R at the same time) | http://www.stat.duke.edu/~michael/book.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,466 | cellis | 2007-08-23T02:28:10 | Is it easy to set up a foreign entity in india? (corp,etc) | Acc to wikipedia, if you are a multinational company, it is available to the employees of that company that have worked in the foreign office for 1 year...does anyone know anything about this? | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-1_visa | 1 | 4 | [
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45,468 | transburgh | 2007-08-23T02:30:21 | New Playboy Social Network Built On Ning | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/22/new-playboy-social-network-built-on-ning/ | 6 | 1 | [
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45,471 | blored | 2007-08-23T02:52:14 | Our social network now has buzz. | Mark and Alex from ClutterMe.com released their "blog buzz" feature today. Their site is due to launch in two weeks. | http://www.clutterme.com/public | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
45,475 | blored | 2007-08-23T03:07:29 | Do YC shares get diluted with funding? | 2 | 3 | [
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45,476 | amichail | 2007-08-23T03:09:04 | Impact of Facebook platform on CS enrollment | http://weblog.fortnow.com/2007/08/impact-of-facebook-platform-on-cs.html | 3 | 2 | [
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45,478 | toffer | 2007-08-23T03:12:43 | Content-Aware Image Sizing | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-SSu3tJ3ns | 21 | 6 | [
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45,487 | rams | 2007-08-23T03:56:53 | Freebase Launches | http://www.freebase.com/ | 14 | 6 | [
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404. That’s an error.
The requested URL / was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
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45,490 | donna | 2007-08-23T04:05:21 | Iacocca's Nine Cs of Leadership | http://www.chiefexecutive.net/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=2B3850FCCEF64A4FB6F73620F779231B | 4 | 1 | [
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45,492 | Keios | 2007-08-23T04:15:14 | Software bonhomie: MS and Linux | http://www.livemint.com/2007/08/22182750/Software-bonhomie-Microsoft-p.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,493 | ahsonwardak | 2007-08-23T04:16:47 | Storing Energy in Paper | http://www.whatsnextnetwork.com/technology/index.php/2007/08/14/storing_energy_in_paper | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,506 | dfranke | 2007-08-23T05:41:44 | Generalizing Palish's question: how would you fix high school? | There was a lot of disagreement over whether Palish's "hacker schools" could be viable, but I think most of here agree that high school in its current form is horribly broken. So, what would you do to make it less miserable, particularly for hackers but also in general?<p>Don't cop out by just saying "hand out vouchers (or abolish public schooling) and let the free market take care of it". If you believe that's the right first step, then go on suppose that you're the headmaster of a private high school. What will it look like? | 4 | 4 | [
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45,510 | sabhishek | 2007-08-23T06:05:04 | Online CSS grid generator | http://kematzy.com/blueprint-generator/ | 6 | 3 | [
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45,513 | sbraford | 2007-08-23T06:54:51 | The "this thread is going nowhere fast" Slope | http://onwebapps.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/nowhere_fast.jpg | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,514 | brett | 2007-08-23T07:05:11 | Set up a Web server cluster in 5 easy steps with Linux Virtual Server and Heartbeat v2 | null | http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/l-linux-ha/index.html?ca=drs- | 2 | 1 | [
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45,518 | aaroneous | 2007-08-23T07:22:13 | How Many Machines Do You Need To Run Your Site? | http://highscalability.com/how-many-machines-do-you-need-run-your-site | 11 | 5 | [
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45,535 | terpua | 2007-08-23T08:01:56 | Ok, Ok. All Of You (even YouTube) Invented Video Overlay Ads "First" | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/23/ok-ok-all-of-you-even-youtube-invented-video-overlay-ads-first/ | 4 | 5 | [
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45,538 | mmpcse | 2007-08-23T08:16:39 | Google Founder's Inspiring Quotes A | http://hitechstartups.wordpress.com/2007/08/23/google-founders-inspiring-quotes/ | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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45,554 | eusman | 2007-08-23T10:20:53 | What happens to the YC applications after rejected? | Is there any change they are sold to 3rd parties? | 7 | 12 | [
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45,563 | bootload | 2007-08-23T11:19:09 | How things get better | http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/08/22/howThingsGetBetter.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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