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Intern Blog: It Takes a Team
I was not expecting to start spring semester of my third year at the University of Virginia with an internship. …
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Intern Blog: Beyond the Fine Print
I joined Parse.ly as a business intern right after college graduation—I’m going to graduate school in Europe—in order to learn …
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To the Next Parse.ly Intern: Learning is Not A Race
Emmett Butler is a web and video game developer and an NYU senior studying computer science and music technology. In …
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Does Kinja Count As A Community Vertical?
Last week, BuzzFeed launched a new “community vertical” that hosts user-generated and curated content. The BuzzFeed community vertical follows on …
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Content Marketing: Advertising’s Brave New-ish World
Click-through rates are abysmal. Readers are ignoring display ads. But there’s good news: advertising that looks and feels like editorial …
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The Super Bowl and Social Media Advertising
Super Bowl XLVII had a tough team to beat. Its predecessor, XLVI, captivated 111.3 million Americans with a rating of …
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Best Practices for Digital Democracy
Digital democracy is not a utopia. It is merely a more perfect organization of citizens within the field of new …
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Whatever It Takes
How the Parse.ly team didn’t let implementation obstacles get in the way of delivering elegant, beautiful, and timely data digests …
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Bigger Data, Smarter Scaling
Parse.ly’s CTO, Andrew Montalenti was one of three presenters at the Times Open at the New York Times HQ on …
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A Brief History of The Press
Does it inform, or propagandize? Does it challenge our opinions, or re-inforce pre-existing ones? Is it fair, or biased? Does …