7. TWITTER
• Incredibly powerful communications tool
• Distribute your ideas to the world
• Distribute others’ ideas to the world
• ‘Meet’ others, work with others, build relationships
• Idea generation machine
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8. MY PROBLEMS WITHTWITTER
• Signal-to-Noise Ratio
• Curation (Use Lists)
• Time-sink
• Character-limit
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9. HOW I USETWITTER
• To complain
• To share my discoveries
• Follow my inspirations
• Communicate with ‘team’
members
• To share my projects
• Follow Project Members
• Follow Blogger
• Evangelists
• Engineers
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10. • FREE
• Paid == More accounts & unlimited posts
• ConnectsTwitter, Facebook,App.net, LinkedIn Accounts
• Browser Extensions and Mobile Apps
• ‘Buffer’ your posts for later
• Sync buffer schedule with your followers
Is Hiring!
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14. GITHUB
• USE IT NOW.
• git based repository hosting
• Top-notch UX
• Social discovery
• Trending, search, etc.
• Native clients
• It’s fun.
• Feel part of a community.
• Resume 2.0 (AWS)
• O’Reilly Opportunity
• Leads to opportunities
• Also a web host
• Alternatives: Bitbucket, SF
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15. GOOGLE+
• $$ = Communities
• Discovery Potential
• Tech. Groups
• HTML5
• Javascript
• International Presence
• GoodTraffic Driver
• Great Curated News
Resource
• Opportunity Cost ==Time
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18. CREATE OFTEN
“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the
thing you do that makes you good.”
- Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
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19. CODE
• Challenges?
• /r/dailyprogrammer
• Project Euler
• Games?
• Ludum Dare
• /r/gamedev
• Other Projects?
• Hackathons
• Friends
• API Mashups
• Mobile apps
• School Work*
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21. SHARE
• Include Graph Properties
• Plug-in your analytics
• Gaug.es
• Chartbeat
• Mixpanel
• KISSmetrics
• Share toTwitter, Facebook,
Google+,App.net, etc.
• Newsletter
• Watch your traffic
• Rinse and Repeat
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22. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
• Wrote one post (poorly) on D3.js
• Tech. Review D3.js Cookbook Offer
• Receive regular traffic ~10-20 / day
• Job offers
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33. • Web: Front / Middle / Back
• Mobile:Android / iOS
• Software Development
• Business Development
• Price: $25 - 49
• Job Board
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34. ONLINE CLASSES
• Coursera - https://www.coursera.org/
• MIT - http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/index.htm
• Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/
• Others:
• http://www.quora.com/Coursera/What-are-some-websites-
similar-to-Coursera
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35. NOTABLE MENTIONS
• Cracking the Code
• Career Cup - http://www.careercup.com/
• SO Freely Available Programming Books
• SO Most Influential Programming Books
• RedditYoutube
• Railscasts by Ryan Bates
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37. INTERVIEWSTREET
• Candidate Screener
• Code Pairing
• Question Bank
• Development Environment
• Used as a tool by tech. companies
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38. • ‘Data science as a sport.’
• Platform for data science and machine learning
• Competitions
• Monetary Prizes
• Recruiting
• Examples:
• Facial Recognition, Predictive Modeling, Optimization
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39. • Repository of Questions
• Algorithms, Games,AI,Theory
• Weekly Online Hackathon
• Prizes
• Leaderboards
• Supported Languages
• Open Source
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40. • 588k+ Members
• Tutorials
• Algorithm, Software, etc.
• Competition
• Design, Development, QA
• Leaderboards
• Payment
• Businesses source top
coders
• Recruitment
• Topcoder ranking is worth
value
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41. HACKATHONS
• Surrounded by intelligent
peers
• Extreme focus and
determination
• Prizes
• Social
• REDBULL!! & Caffeine Muffins
• Employers
• NewTechnology
• Finding:
• Use social media, networks,
and tech journals to find
• HackerLeague
• PennApps
• Michigan Hacks
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42. OTHER EVENTS
• Meetup
• http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/
• http://www.meetup.com/njtech/
• http://www.meetup.com/Princeton-Tech/
• http://www.meetup.com/njtechgals/
• New Jersey Tech
• http://www.njtechlist.com/
• https://twitter.com/NJTech
• Google
• Google Code Jam
• Google Summer of Code
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43. TCNJ
• Get involved.
• Talk to faculty, discover their
interests and pair-up
• You will grow more during
an independent study than
any class or website.
• It leads to more
opportunities
• Academia & Industry
• IT’S (USUALLY) FUN!
• You teach faculty a few
things.
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45. • Fundraisers
• Goal
• Share
• Reward
• Bounties
• Bugs & Features
• Earn $$$
• Connects to Github etc.
$10 - Add AJAX spinner
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46. • 100% Open Source
• Small Weekly Cash Gifts
• Charged onThursdays
• Distributes Weekly Balance
• Self-sufficient
• People receive $1 - $500
weekly
• Notables:
• @fat
• @mdo
• @jeresig
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47. • FREE
• Anonymous matching
• Speed dating for your career
• Low-risk
• Accept / Pass
• Technology-oriented
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48. • FREE / Currently invite-
only
• I have 19 invites,
email me.
• Top-quality employers
• Syncs with StackExchange,
Github, etc.
• Resembles LinkedIn without
the Spam
• Medium-to-Large
Companies
• Apply or be Approached
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