April 2012
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Perpetual Hiring Mode!
Just got a friendly email reminder from Stefan pointing out we have a lot of jobs announcements left on the blog that have already been taken.
BUT we’d like to point out we’re always happy to meet amazing talents that find what we do interesting. So, you find some of previous openings challenging our just love what we do and see yourselves as a potential member of the Burt Team?
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Wrapp, Frank Meehan, raising bags of cash & mingle...
Start-Up Day 2012 in Stockholm energized and inspired! As the Tripbirds’ Ted Valentin said - something has happened in Startup Stockholm during the last months. It is great to see and be a part of such a vibrant start-up community in Stockholm and Sweden!
[[MORE]]A sold-out conference on a Saturday morning - the day better be good was our thought on the way to Debaser Medis! And it...
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The three golden rules for successful advertising...
It seems as if all really successful, large scale advertising formats have three things in common. These rules apply to everything from the beautiful pages of *Vogue Magazine* to the relevant sponsored links at *Google.com*:
1. The format is a native, natural part of the experience
2. The format is simple enough for anyone to understand
3. The format is consistent across properties and over...
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Inspire & get inspired at Start-Up Day 2012
Given our startup DNA, contributing at an event such as Start-Up Day Stockholm this coming Saturday is extra fun.
The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship has put together a program that should keep us going the whole day. Gustav will be taking the main stage at 11.10 talking about the Big business - the happiness and hardships of building an Enterprise 2.0 start-up.
We mostly decided to share...
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Talks at #scandev - check! Next: Startup-Day...
Pretty intense conference season here at Burt. This week on Swedish ground, Burtlings attended Scandinavian Developer Conference and are around for the Startup-Up Day 2012 in Stockholm on Saturday. Next week we’ll be at the IAB Sweden Conference and holding a seminar at the Norwegian Gulltaggen in Oslo.
[[MORE]]Erik, Theo, Jakob and Björn have presented at the Scandinavian Developer...
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Burt at Norway's Largest Marketing Event
We’ve been talking before about our Love for Norway and the affection seems to be mutual! Now we’re invited to speak at Gulltaggen – the largest Norwegian conference for digital marketing. The event is one of the finest Nordic marketing meet-ups, always attracting pretty impressive international speakers such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Clay Shirky. Apart from the inspiration and energy...
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Storing Stuff Not Worth Storing (Redis)
Once you pass about 1 000 requests per second you start realizing that storing all that data is gonna be a problem. At 5 000 requests you’ve pretty much stricken off all solutions having the letters SQL on their frontpage. At more than 10 000 requests, your only real option is Redis.
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In-memory distributed caches are a great way of throwing away your data. In a good way. No,...
