Episode 5: Scaling to Hit it Big

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News/Follow Ups

• 00:43 – Doodle doesn’t send out emails, it gives you the link to send out yourself
• 02:50 – Snipt you can actually send a link to someone and embed it on your site. Thanks to Nick Sergeant and Pete Karl from Lion Burger for straightening us out!

Webapps

• 05:43 – Socialthing - Aggregates friends information from various social web sited
  • Hulu – Online television streaming
    
  • Boxee – Social media center
• 13:73 – notify.me – Notification’s across different mediums supporting any RSS feed
• 19:54 – OSVDB - Open Source Vulnerability Database recommended by Ryan Heimbuch
• 27:30 – Freesound.org – Free Creative Commons sound clip library
  • Podsafe Audio – Creative Commons music database
    

Topics

• 30:22 – Twitter Search helps close the corporate gap
• 36:51 - Scaling Web Applications by Digg’s Chief Architect
  • YSlow – Recommended by Eric Wendelin
• 43:21 – Web user behavior study helps you create user-friendly content
• 49:32 – Tagging for search results
• 54:53 - Pair Programming: What is it and is it useful?

Tags: boxee, creative commons, digg, doodle, freesound, hulu, lionburger, notify.me, osvdb, pair programming, podsafe audio, scaling, snipt, socialthing, tagging, twitter, yslow

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7 Responses to “Episode 5: Scaling to Hit it Big”

• Eric Wendelin Says:
  February 24th, 2009 at 10:07 pm

  Just a quick note that you can do updates to Twitter/Facebook/etc. via SocialThing! as well. They have an iPhone app as well. I use the service and it rocks, but I don’t have any invites. Sorry
• Mark Sanborn Says:
  February 24th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

  Thanks for the update Eric, If only we could get some invites to give it a proper review
• Jade Robbins Says:
  February 25th, 2009 at 9:21 am

  Now I am even MORE excited to try this service! Thanks Eric
• Ben brightwell Says:
  March 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pm

  Hey! Thanks for the mention in your podcast. Here’s an invite code loaded up with 25 invites. Just sign up at http://socialthing.com/signup?invite_code=faceoff

  Have fun!
• Mark Sanborn Says:
  March 2nd, 2009 at 6:25 pm

  Awesome Ben! I just signed up and excited to try it out.
• Jade Robbins Says:
  March 2nd, 2009 at 7:35 pm

  Thank you so much Ben! Super pumped to try out Socialthing!
• Jade Robbins Says:
  March 3rd, 2009 at 10:42 am

  OSVDB gave us a shout out on their blog!

  http://blog.osvdb.org/2009/02/25/osvdb-discussed-on-faceoff-podcast#comments

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