Developers

Serendipity, Not Search, Finds Top Apps

John Backus | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Iphone, Small Business, Startup, Apps, Developers, Technology, iPhone Apps, Small Business America, Tablet, Small Business News

Quit trying to trick customers into downloading your app via incented downloads. Put your app where your customers are likely to discover it, and you will be well on your way to growing your audience with users actually interested in your app.

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More Than a Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria Talks Activism

Avital Binshtock | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Clean Alternative Energy Program, Children, Epa, Beso, Agriculture, Green, The Harvest, Shine Global, Producer, Seasonal, Recycling, Regulations, Farms, Volunteer, Eva Longoria, Al Gore, Farmworkers, Dropouts, Poverty, Local, Gabrielle Solis, Pizza Fusion, Film, United Farm Workers, School, Greenville Project, Sustainable, Chefs, Las Vegas, Developers, Food, Construction, Fields, Health. Education, Pesticides, Eco, Immigrants, Retail, Hormones, Organic, Commercial Real Estate, Desperate Housewives, Inconvenient Truth, Philanthropy, Hybrids, Activism, Bill Clinton, Abc, Oregon, Toxic, Felicity Huffman, CARE Act, Laborers, Los Angeles, Gym, Portland, Fame, La Cosecha, Marcia Cross, Restaurants, Environment, Documentary, Ingredients, Ranch, Prop 87, Bottled Water, Hollywood, Green News

Eva Longoria, who plays the self-involved Gabrielle Solis on ABC's Desperate Housewives, takes on extracurricular projects that set her far apart from her shallow onscreen persona.

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Startups and Their Typical Flaw: Too-Early Development

Gideon Gartner | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Innovation Blindness, Developers, Startups, Harvard Business Review, Business News

Many developers seem to focus on function without having had the opportunity to sufficiently understand what the technology being developed will be solving!

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Why You Can't Hire

Naval Ravikant | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Tech Talent, Startup Hiring, Startup Jobs, Startup, Incubator, Ios, Open Source, Developers, Designers, Startups, Hiring, Jobs, Venture Capital, Vc, Startup Incubator, Amazon, Small Business News

There isn't a shortage of developers and designers. There's a surplus of founders.

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The Pros & Cons of Hiring Third-Party Vendors

Tom Grasty | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Negotiation, Knight News Challenge, Jason Nazar, Stroome, Collaboration, Developers, Online Video, Editing, Entrepreneurship, Participatory Media, USC Annenberg Program on Online Communities, Third-Party-Vendors, Video, Business News

Rarely does a startup have all the tools in its toolbox when starting out. Sometimes you have to engage a third-party vendor.

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Twitter Reportedly Under Federal Investigation

Business Insider | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Federal Investigation, Anti-Trust, Twitter, Ftc, Biz Stone, Developers, Feds, Tweetdeck, Investigation, Third Party Developers, Technology News

The Federal Trade Commission is actively investigating Twitter and the way it deals with the companies building applications and services for its plat...

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Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play

John Mirisch | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Westwood, Ucla, Metro, Developers, Beverly Hills, Nimbyism, Westside Subway, Century City, Mass Transit, Los Angeles Mass Transit, Constellation, La Metro, La Transit, Nimby, Los Angeles News

The message of the press conference participants was clear: we want the Century City station on Constellation and we don't care if you have to tunnel under Beverly Hills High School to get there.

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GEN Launched To Foster Mutualization and Cooperation Among World's Editors

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Newspapers, French, Apps, Knight Foundation, Broadcast, Journalist, Media, Paris, Multimedia, Broadband, Peru, Sylvie Kauffmann, Gallo Multimedia, World Editors Forum (WEF), Argentina, spot.us, Nigeria, David Cohn, Engineers, World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), Spanish, Shaping the Future of the Newspaper, Bertrand Pecquerie, Germany, Morocco, Tv Stations, Hyperlocal, Conference, El Pais, Digitization, Czech, France, Roman Roman, Martha Stone, Le Monde, Xavier Vidal-Folch, Cross-Media, Press Association, Developers, Webinar, Global Editors Network (GEN), Media News

A new worldwide organization is bringing together editors from different platforms, engineers and developers in news media in a bid to foster more sustainable professional journalism.

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Promising Elements of the Net Neutrality Decision

Morgan Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: iPhone App Developers, Developers, Software, Innovation, FCC Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality, Technology News

During the extended holiday season, families gather around the modern day hearth to watch football. Everyone has a favorite team, or alma mater, to c...

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Get Your "Riot" Badge on Foursquare

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foursquare, Kevin Rose, Riots, Twitter, World Series, Antoine Dodson, Developers, Robert Scoble, San Francisco Giants, Facebook, San Francisco, Technology News

Getting status updates from afar, Los Angelinos and others are getting a front row seat to the riots that have now broken out in San Francisco in hono...

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Luxury Condos Boast FHA Backing

Bloomberg | Oshrat Carmiel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Housing Administration, Condos, Tempo, Luxury Condos, Housing, Homebuyers, Developers, New York City Apartments, Residential Real Estate, Luxury Real Estate, Real Estate, Barack Obama, New York Condos, Business News

Whitney Gollinger, marketing chief for a Manhattan condo building with an outdoor movie theater and panoramic city views, is highlighting a different ...

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Google Is Making You Into a Developer

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Social media has turned many of us from content consumers into content producers. Tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Amplify have made the pr...

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Abandoned Coney Island -- Last Chance To See?

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thor Equities, New York City Real Estate, Coney Island, New-York-City-History, Developers, Nathans Hot Dogs, Coney Island New York, Coney-Island-Redevelopment, Shore Hotel, Coney-Island-Brooklyn-Coney-Island-History, New York News

When I heard the rumors that Satan's real estate division, Thor Equities, was allegedly planning to tear down some of the last remaining historic buildings in Coney Island, I actually felt a chill.

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Video Chatting Platform for Collaborative Games and Activities: 6rounds Developers API Released

Ilan Leibovich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Developers, 6rounds, Developers Api, Video Chat, Webcam Chat, Google Wave, Wave, Online Chat, Tinychat, Chatroulette, Video, Technology News

6rounds, our video chat extension for Google Wave, is a flash-based social entertainment platform that challenges traditional video chatting methods with a beautifully designed and user friendly platform.

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LinkedIn Welcomes Developers

paidContent | Joseph Tartakoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Developers, Twitter Linked In, Linked In, Twitter-Linked-In, Technology News

LinkedIn wants more attention from developers. The company is announcing that third-party developers will now be able to easily integrate the professi...

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The Niche World of New York Real Estate

Darren Sukenik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Apartments, Developers, Real Estate, Manhattan Apartments, New York Real Estate, Brokers, New York News

Remember those old game shows with contestants in glass money machine booths trying to catch all of the flying dollars? That was the NYC real estate industry two years ago.

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Developers Need Community Support, Communities Need Affordable Housing

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coney Island, Mayor Bloomberg, Williamsburg Brooklyn, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Credit Crisis, Inclusionary Zoning, San Francisco, Housing Crisis, New York City, Affordable Housing, Developers, New York News

People are still moving to New York -- despite the recession -- and hundreds of thousands of new housing units will need to be built before supply catches up with demand.

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Go Tell It On The Mountain: The Edge Doesn't Need Five Homes Here

latimes.com | Steve Lopez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Developers, U2, Malibu, Development, The Edge, Los Angeles News

The U2 guitarist is lining up political muscle and environmentalist star power to support constructing his eco-friendly castles on a pristine ridge ne...

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Apartment Vacancy Rate Surges 7.8%, Rents Fall

The Wall Street Journal | NICK TIMIRAOS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Housing Market, Housing, Vacancy Rates, Economy, Apartments, Developers, U.S. Apartment Vacancy Rate, Real Estate, Apartment Vacancy Rates, Renters, Housing Crisis, Recession, Apartment Buildings, Rents, Business News

The U.S. vacancy rate reached 7.8%, a 23-year high, according to Reis Inc., a New York real-estate research firm that tracks vacancies and rents in th...

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Aspen Gunfight at the Hotel Jerome

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hotels, Travel, Real Estate, Aspen, Burlingame, Real Estate Transfer Tax, Rett, Developers, Hotel Jerome, Aspen Skiing Company, Mick Ireland, Wheeler Opera House, Aspen City Council, Affordable Housing, Denver News

Development. Say that word in Mayor Mick Ireland's Aspen and you're all but doomed to fail.

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Other City Leaders' Advice to Boulder: Confront 'Affordability,' Lack of Green Jobs

Jerry Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Affordable Homes, Green Jobs, Sesquicentennial, Colorado, Boulder, Portland Oregon, Urban Planning, Santa Fe New Mexico, Developers, Madison Wisconsin, Aspen Colorado, Urban Development, College Towns, Denver News

No one will ride to a city's rescue for affordable housing. Developers, Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland said, are not going to buy $500,000 lots and put in affordable duplexes for schoolteachers.

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An Olympic Guarantee You Can Count On

Alden Loury | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gentrication, Draper and Kramer, Ioc, Chicago Olympic Bid, Lake Meadows, 1996 Olympics, Chicago, Michael Reese Hospital, Atlanta, Chicago 2016, Bronzeville, Mayor Daley, Developers, The Chicago Reporter, Washington Park, Olympics Displacement, Chicago Olympics, Atlanta Olympics, Chicago News

Olympics have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years, especially minorities and the poor. With or without the Games, we're witnessing the clearing of two miles of lakefront property.

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The Stranger in Everyday Life

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Consumerism, Neighborhoods, New York City, Jane Jacobs, City Life, Urban Planning, Developers, Surveillance, Immigrants, JFK Airport, New York News

The city-as-monoculture can only continue with surveillance, stop-and-frisks, eminent domain, developer tax windfalls and all the illegal activity brazenly called Progress and New York Greatness.

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Razin' Hell

Kevin Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Broadway-Flushing, Houses, Queens, Michael Bloomberg, Long Island Rail Road, Developers, Mcmansions, Real Estate, Forgotten New York, New York News

There's trouble in paradise: in Broadway-Flushing, Queens, McMansions have sprung up, and the hedges, lawns and classic architecture have been replaced by ugly fencing and paved front yards.

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Commercial Real Estate Is an Impending Disaster

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

Many of us know of people who have lost their homes through foreclosure. To a lesser extent we hear about struggling commercial properties vying for a limited pool of tenants.

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