First rule of DevOps fight club, don’t talk about DevOps fight club

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A cadre of top-flight DevOps practitioners will gather later this week at an undisclosed location in Northern California. It will be considerably friendlier than Fight Club , thank goodness, but it’s nearly as mysterious. The goal: To hash out important issues they see in their own deployments, to compare notes on problems they see and to talk in a way that they feel they cannot do in vendor-driven trade shows and conferences, according to one DevOps expert who will attend the invitation-only event

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Frrole Makes Twitter Into a Local News Source for 51 Cities Worldwide [Webapps]

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If you like to follow news and events for your city and happen to live in one of the 51 cities worldwide that Frrole curently covers you'll get a kick out of the webapp. More

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Twitter Says Farewell To Adam “MCA” Yauch

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Earlier today, GlobalGrind broke the news that Adam “MCA” Yauch, a founding member of New York’s pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, had died of cancer at the age of 47.

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Hachi Combines LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter & Google Into One, Lets You Search All Your Connections At Once

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OK, this is cool.

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Hootsuite Is Raising $50M At A $500M Valuation

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It was just over a month ago that social media management platform HootSuite picked up $20 million in a secondary investment round that valued the company at $200 million. Now we have heard from multiple sources that the company is looking to better than double that: HootSuite is in the process of raising a $50 million round at a $500 million valuation.

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Prismatic wants to be the newspaper for a digital age

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What did the printed newspaper provide in its heyday as the information-delivery system of choice? A collection of news and other interesting content, selected by knowledgeable editors from a wide range of sources, presented in an easy-to-scan format. Now, the supply of information we have available to us is almost never-ending — but we still need an easy and efficient way to filter it, and find what is interesting and relevant, and share it with others

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Why Twitter might make lawyers as important as ever

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The legal profession has undergone a lot of change and embarked on a lot of soul searching over the past few years, but don’t dismiss it as an anachronism just yet. As the web changes the way citizens consume and digest information — always faster and in greater quantity — it seems likely certain lawyers will find themselves retaining their positions of power, still able to command whatever rates their hearts desire. Journalists are like law professors for the rest of us Already, legal journalists are taking on a role that makes them akin to law professors for the general public

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Twitter’s Discover tab now snags popular stories and commentary from those in your Twitterverse

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If you fancy seeing what headlines those who you follow on Twitter are chatting about in one compact list, some new functionality in the Discover tab will offer their insight in a few clicks. Essentially, the new feature tracks stories that your pals in the Twitterverse post and allows you to see what the commotion is all about via the "View Tweets" option along the bottom of each article link.

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Twitter’s big problem: It still needs better filters

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Things couldn’t be better at Twitter, CEO Dick Costolo told attendees at a conference on Tuesday, saying the business is going “phenomenally well,” and the company is “confident we have a hit on our hands” with its Promoted Tweets feature for advertisers. So why launch yet another new version of its Discover tab

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Twitter tries to make content discovery more personal

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There’s still a gap that needs to be bridged between user awareness and user engagement on Twitter, according to CEO Dick Costolo.

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