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What’s Twitter? 5 Things Your Business Needs to Know

Twitter is a micro blogging service that consists of 140 character posts. You can think of it as SMS for the web.

It has grown into a near real-time messaging service ranging from the banal “just ate an egg McMuffin” to the useful, “Arrested” which freed James Karl Buck from an Egyptian jail cell. [See link at end of blog post]

Here are five things a business person needs to know about Twitter:

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Yahoo! Performance Research and 80/20

Tenni Theurer is a highly regarded software developer working with Yahoo’s performance team. These are the people who make sure your page loads faster and that you have a positive experience on Yahoo properties. It is part art and part science. Let’s look at the science. She He writes in her his Yahoo! User Interface Blog:

When we optimize our applications, we know to focus on that 20% of the code. This same technique should also be applied when optimizing read more…

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