Author Archives: Dan

OpenVZ howto addendum: Migrating your virtual machines to a new server

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Dan

As I wrote some time ago, creating your own OpenVZ infrastructure is very easy, and it can save you a lot of money compared to the usual VPS providers. But it also has other advantages. Hashtagify uses redis to store … Continue reading →

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Hashtags on Google Plus too!

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dan

As pointed out by Chris Messina, the “inventor of Twitter hashtags” (rather, the one who pushed for their adoption on Twitter, which is no little feat), Google just rolled out hashtags autocompleting on Google Plus, thus giving their official support … Continue reading →

Posted in Hashtags, Roadmap | 6 Comments

Hashtagify Pro: Would you like it to be from Hashtagify, ltd?

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Dan

The beta of Hashtagify Pro is going well, and I’m going to release it officially soon enough. I have to decide if I should incorporate as Hashtagify Ltd. before launching: Would you trust Hashtagify Ltd. more than Daniele Mazzini? Please … Continue reading →

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Hashtagify Pro private beta

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Dan

Lately I’ve been hard at work on Hashtagify Pro, a new tool that lets you track a specific campaign or subject (not limited to hashtags) on Twitter and analyze which influencers are impacting it and how. Today is a big … Continue reading →

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Update CSS rules with 5 lines of CoffeeScript

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Dan

I recently (ie, today) had to find a way to update a CSS rule dynamically in javascript. jQuery, my library of choice, doesn’t offer this functionality – and I really wonder why – so I looked around a little and … Continue reading →

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The European Tech Scene in Blogging

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dan

I’ve been too focused on my work on hashtagify pro lately – the first beta isn’t far, by the way – to notice it when it came out, but this article about the European tech blogging scene is very interesting. … Continue reading →

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Is the open source/internet singularity coming?

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Dan

Many have heard about the idea, popularized by Ray Kurzweil, that a technological singularity is coming. In a nutshell, the idea is that as the power of computers is growing exponentially, at some point it will bring about an artificial … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Source, Opinions | 14 Comments

Javascript async testing tutorial: Jasmine + Rails 3.1 + Coffeescript

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Dan

I recently wanted to create automated testing for coffeescript code in Rails 3.1, including some async (ajax) code. I had to dig around quite a lot, so I’m writing here what I ended up doing for future reference for myself … Continue reading →

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Bootstrapping hashtagify pro: How I doubled my workweek productivity

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Dan

Creating a startup while working a full time job has its pros and cons. Among the pros, you don’t have to use a lot of your time minding your investors (or looking for them), and you can devote your energies … Continue reading →

Posted in Roadmap, Startup | 45 Comments

Evaluating a Twitter Campaign

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Dan

If you’re doing a marketing campaign on Twitter, how can you measure its real impact? And, specifically, how can you evaluate the individual contribution of single campaign participants? This is something that has been asked to us, and we think … Continue reading →

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