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2011-07-14 by Andrew
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LAUNCH: A more dynamic, beautiful Discover

There are literally thousands of amazing conversations on Namesake, in almost every topic you can imagine. We dearly love the vitality of our community, and we know sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all of the great conversations taking place. Enter the new Discover. Think of it as the “lean-back” version of Namesake. Sit [...]

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2011-07-12 by Andrew
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LIVE at 11am PT: Jason Goldman, Twitter VP Product (former)

Jason Goldman is the former VP Product for Twitter and Product Manager for Blogger at Google. Currently a co-founder at The Obvious Corporation, Jason will be joining us for a LIVE Namesake Conversation today at 11am PST / 2pm EST. We will be discussing: product development during rapid growth design and usability secrets managing product teams [...]

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2011-06-22 by Clint
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Namesake’s Newest Hire: Jeff Potter

We’re super-stoked to announce our second hire—Jeff Potter! Jeff is joining the team to help out Co-Founder Dan on the systems side of Namesake. As Dan writes,   Jeff runs Devops at Namesake.  Traditionally, companies had operations teams that managed the systems and development teams that built software.  Now that we’re building complex internet-scale systems [...]

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2011-06-15 by Brian
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The Birth of the ‘Alive Web’

This morning I awoke to an email newsletter in my inbox from Om Malik. The title of his post said it all, “Say hello to the alive web!” For the past year I’ve been thinking deeply about this concept as it relates to Namesake and the consumer Internet as a whole. I believe we’re at the beginning [...]

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2011-06-14 by Clint
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Mr. Agrawal Goes To Bloomberg

Two weeks ago, avid community member, Rocky Agrawal wrote a post for TechCrunch discussing the daily deals business and why they may be a raw deal. That post kicked off a series of events that showcase the power of social media and Namesake. Rocky followed up that initial post by joining an intense, live debate [...]

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2011-05-23 by Clint
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3 Great Conferences to Discuss Live

There are 3 great tech conferences this week. Whether you’re attending or not, discussing the conferences LIVE on Namesake as they happen is the next best thing to actually being there. Click on one of the links below to discuss the conference as it happens. TechCrunch Disrupt What?: A big tech confab put on by [...]

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2011-04-28 by Namesake Team
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How to Use @Color

Have you seen Peter Pham’s smart phone app Color™? It is a location-aware social application. We spent a little time thinking of offbeat ways to use it. Showing people that you photo-bombed them in real time, how awesome is that?

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2011-04-25 by Namesake Team
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Have An Impossible Mission

Namesake Co-founder Dan Gould sat down (ok, he was a bit more dynamic than that) with the fine folks at IdeaMensch to talk about “Big To Small: Building Large Visions Through Tiny Steps” Check out the video below – Dan gives a great talk about how to get started building your company. Big to Small: [...]

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2011-04-19 by Namesake Team
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Namesake, Serendipity and Jenn Hoffman

The thing about L.A. is that because The Media or The Entertainment Industry or Hollywood (choose your nom de plume) is such a large part of our economy lots of people spend lots of time talking about what’s going on in it – heck, Harvey Levin and his TMZ have built an entire business out [...]

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2011-04-17 by Namesake Team
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Do you wish you were taller?

Community Member Oren Raboy wonders “Do short people have lower self-esteem?” Most responded that as adults height was not important to their self image. Rocky Agrawal, though, offered that being shorter put him at a serious disadvantage in many aspects of life: “Being short is a significant challenge in our society, especially if you’re male. [...]

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