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Polls can be a cheat code for earned media, and a great way to build authority. But there are levels to this. Here's how one of the best I've seen - Capital One - does it. (And what I'd do differently to increase earned coverage). Led by Shena Ashley, PhD, Capital One's Insights Center is a masterclass in leveraging polls to create unique insights that would do incredibly well via earned syndication. Here’s what they do great: ✅ Content that sticks: Crucial issues > fleeting trends. Focusing on topics like financial stability, mobility, and entrepreneurship, it's easier to rationalize investment on topics with a longer shelf life. Their insights stories can drive coverage for months to come. ✅ Visual storytelling: Data doesn’t have to be dry, and Capital One presents original insights through clear and eye-pleasing visuals that are easy to understand. Publishers like charts, they love colorful charts, and they LOVE colorful charts that are easy to understand. Check, check, check. ✅ Strong methodologies and extensive polling numbers: Capital One frequently involves 7k participants in their studies - they are not half a**ing it. Well explained methodologies are table stakes to get your polls covered, and Capital One does a great job outlining their data collection process, sample size, and research methodologies.   ✅ Easy to steal: Each report has multiple easy to take stories/soundbites, and are also written as full pieces of content, which can be taken as whole. Finally --- if I could change one thing... Add a byline. Brand publishing NEEDS a byline - no news outlet wants to cover a story that can't be credited back to a human. All in all, polls can be incredibly valuable for driving earned syndication - check out Capital One's Insights Center in comments for killer examples.

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With Velt (YC W22) we provide features that boost engagement and growth within your product. You can add full-stack features like contextual comments, recording, notifications and more. You can fully customize these components. Make them feel native. Make them your own. Match your brand. Developers have full control: * Custom component layouts * Your own CSS * Dynamic template variables * Conditional component rendering * Custom behaviors and functionality * Component variants * Or build your own UI with our APIs. Learn more👇

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Anthropic continues to deliver new models that customers enjoy using in a variety of ways. Today, Anthropic released an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet model with awesome new capabilities, and it’s available now in Amazon Bedrock. The updated Claude 3.5 Sonnet shows wide-ranging improvements on industry benchmarks, with strong gains in agentic coding and tool use tasks. Anthropic also introduced a new capability in public beta: computer use. In Amazon Bedrock, developers can direct Claude to use computers the way people do—by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the first frontier AI model to reliably use computers in this way—albeit experimentally—and Anthropic expects the capability to improve over time. Such a cool feature that I know our customers will find useful. https://lnkd.in/gwBQf8zH

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Come check out this talk if you want to learn how we built distributed queries for Iceberg Python!

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In 2021, Pinata launched the first productized offering of Dedicated IPFS Gateways. Before that, developers and consumers of IPFS had to use public gateways that were often slow, rate limited, and a bad reflection of what was possible with IPFS. We launched Dedicated Gateways with all of the comforts that developers had come to expect when working on web scale projects–CDN, edge network, stability, and scalability. Developers could add custom domains to their gateway, they could use multiple gateways across various projects, and they could use these gateways to help query the IPFS network for the booming NFT market. It was literally a gamechanger that we saw many others copy over the years. We've continued to experiment and innovate in the space around IPFS Gateways, and today we're excited to announce the next iteration of that innovation. We're launching Gateway Plugins soon! You can read more about Gateway Plugins and sign up on the interest lists linked in the blog post below. But the tl;dr is this: we're giving Gateways superpowers. We've quietly built our own plugins that every Pinata Dedicated Gateway benefits from today: Access Controls and Phishing Moderation. Now, we're opening up the plugin capabilities of Gateways further. Not only will we be launching three plugins of our own, we will be opening up Gateway Plugins to third party developers. If you're interested in building your own plugins, we'd love to help and enable your vision. There's an interest link in the blog post you should fill out. We saw what innovating around Gateways could do three years ago. Now, I can't wait to see how these plugins change IPFS usage and enhance creativity. https://lnkd.in/gkB8VeZX #IPFS #Web3 #Blockchain

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If software is your strategy, you know a thriving engineering team is key to success. But team health is about more than just numbers. That’s where the Ultimate DevEx Playbook comes in. This step-by-step guide, featuring insights from Jellyfish and AWS, explains how to improve the developer experience meaningfully. Teams with great DevEx are: ✔ 33% more likely to hit business targets ✔ 31% more likely to improve delivery flow ✔ 20% more likely to stay with their employer Ready to level up your team’s performance? Access the playbook now. Link in comments

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