The Value of Side Projects
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the value of creating things
@sharkseo
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WHO AM I? Dave Peiris, @sharkseo / sharkseo.com
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SEARCHGA.me
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I Use Google’s 20% Time
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hackerbuddy.com
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GRNDCTRL.com
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the value of Side Projects
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LetsFreckle.com
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everytimezone.com ‣ 752 links ‣ AListApart.com ‣ Lifehacker ‣ CNN ‣ Gigaom ‣ The Next Web ‣ Daring Fireball ‣ Basecamp.com
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Mozcast.com ‣ 92 links ‣ Search Engine Land ‣ SEO.com ‣ Search Marketing
Weekly
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Tools.Pingdom.com ‣ 1,774 links ‣ Search Engine Watch ‣ SEOmoz ‣ Six Revisions ‣ Yoast ‣ Smashing Magazine
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Tips for Building Side Projects
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What would your audience
Find Useful?
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Build your
Email List
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Start with a
Prototype
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It’s About Speed
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If a new product can’t be shipped in 6 months, Yahoo will no longer bother. Marissa Mayer
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Themeforest.net
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Nothing good Has Ever Been Designed By
committee
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So terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion. a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and embarrassment which I like to call shitasmia. Charlie Brooker
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Nothing good Has Ever Been Designed By
committee
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Do One Thing Really Well
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How to launch
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The Press Loves
A Story
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Try writing the Article First
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Don’t neglect the Little Guys
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Ignore famous Journalists
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Make Writing About You easy
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Don’t Get Discouraged
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Promote New Features
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build Something For Journalists
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build Something For Journalists
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build Something For Journalists
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Projects Can Be Small
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Do your developers have a
tech blog?
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Do your developers have a tech blog? ‣ 92 links ‣ Reddit ‣ hacker news ‣ security.nl ‣ WSJ.com
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‣ 209 links ‣ Coding Horror ‣ Wired ‣ Read Write Web ‣ ZDNet ‣ Forbes ‣ Computer World ‣ Gigaom ‣ MIT.edu
Do your developers have a tech blog?
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The CHAOS
MONKEY cc Flickr: Nzgabriel
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‣ 145 links ‣ Drupal.org ‣ opensource.com ‣ arstechnica ‣ TechCrunch
Open Source
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Open Source ‣ 88 links ‣ DailyJS.com ‣ WebAppers.com ‣ jQueryBuzz.com ‣ SpeakingCode.com
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Give Away Icons
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Find a Problem And
Solve It
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Thank you @sharkseo