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Techmeme's biggest (i.e. tallest) stories of 2012
— Now that we've examined the year's trending terms, our final retrospectacular tour of 2012 examines the stories themselves. On Techmeme, the biggest stories usually become the tallest stories as different angles of reporting and analysis pile up …
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Which headline terms trended in 2012 on Techmeme?
— “Help! I'm trending!” — Forget all those other tacky end-of-year lists, and sit back and enjoy Techmeme's latest awesome end-of-year lists. Yep, it's finally time to dive into the terms that trended up or down the most in Techmeme headlines this year.
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Techmeme's top 20 headline terms of 2012, and what they signify
— We can uncover a variety of patterns analyzing the data Techmeme has accumulated over the years, and given Techmeme's pan-industry focus, these findings can signal large-scale trends developing across the tech industry.
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No more blind refreshes: Techmeme now alerts you to new headlines
— Are you the kind of Techmeme reader who reloads all day to check for new headlines? Well, we have good news: you can stop refreshing blindly, because Techmeme now automatically reports when there are new headlines …
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Why Techmeme now lists events, and how to get your event listed
— Events have always played an important role in the tech industry. Knowledge exchange and networking opportunities have long been a key draw, as Apple's history attests. The motivations for meeting have certainly expanded since the 1970s.
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Techmeme has redesigned. Drudge Report is now indisputably the web's ugliest news site
— In the beginning, links on web pages were underlined, because that let us know they were links. And it was good. But all those underlined words started to afflict the eye, particularly on pages with many links.
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Techmeme's biggest stories of 2011, literally, as measured by height
— One of the best things about Techmeme is how “huge” or “big” stories can literally be that: conveyed through a stack of headlines several times taller than your screen size. (Unless you hate this …
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Revealed: Why Techmeme links to them instead of you!
— Over time, nearly every major tech news publisher has asked us a variant of “Why do you always post them and not us?” or “Why did you pick them over us for that story when we posted first?” So it's probably time to address this issue in a general way.
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One Twitter account. One RSS feed. Firehoses, but not in name.
— Once upon a time, two days ago, Techmeme maintained not one, but two Twitter accounts. Our intention for this was noble: flexibility for the user. One Twitter account, “Techmeme Firehose” (@TechmemeFH) …
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Billboards suck. Promote your company's jobs on Techmeme!
— As you might have noticed, a hiring boom is underway in tech, leading to ballooning salaries, aggressive recruiting tactics, and finally, billboards. [1, 2] Yes, billboards along Bay Area highways now pitch jobs to the small fraction …
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