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Litmus Behind the Scenes: Managing our Remote Engineering Team

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Around August 2009, I was living 30 minutes away from my job at the time. Specifically, our team is responsible for all the customer-facing web properties, including full-stack web apps and APIs, most of them built with Ruby on Rails. How did you get started with remote work? I eased into remote work. Our team is about 15 folks total.

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Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google - ReadWriteWeb

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Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google. Written by Bernard Lunn / May 21, 2008 11:15 AM. / 12 Comments. I just found a more useful way to search than Google. It only works for a defined use case, but, in a search market that is 85% going on 90% Google-dominated, this can still be significant. Business social network LinkedIn.

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

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MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! gave up their search engine duties in U.S. and Canada to Microsoft’s Bing last week.

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

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Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages. Do You “Like&# Me in Attack Mode? Facebook is waging a three-pronged war on websites. The first front is the battle of expectations.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

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Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages. Do You “Like&# Me in Attack Mode? Facebook is waging a three-pronged war on websites. The first front is the battle of expectations.

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