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Social media isn’t very social anymore and Hitcher is going to change that. Hitcher is a new social platform that gives users the power to control their personal network, eliminate social noise, and create experiences with the people that really matter in their lives. Users create exclusive posts called Hitches . Everyone tagged posts photos, video, and comments and Hitcher captures the entire shared experience. Imagine the usability and lifestyle of Instagram meets the exclusive threaded nature of GroupMe. Hitchers mission is to use social tech to encourage communication and inspire a new wave of shared experiences. Life is too short to focus on the fringe. Look for the app when it launches to the app store January 2017.

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Pagely created the Managed WordPress hosting space in 2009, and has been providing secure and reliable WP hosting services to companies like Facebook and NGINX with a focus on: Performance: Opcode caching, full page caching, optimized PHP and Database setups are essentially platform defaults now instead of the customer trying to figure it out on their own with a mix of plugins and research. More sensible resource balancing on shared setups (old shared hosting providers were notorious for overselling). Collectively these things have made WordPress dramatically faster (vs. a default install) in most use cases. Security: Some level of malware/file scanning, hardened OS installs, least-privileged access, web application firewalls and DDoS mitigation may be defaults at most Managed WordPress providers now. You don’t hear about widespread security issues as we did in say the 2008-2011 period. Those that come up are mitigated quickly by the Core team (or the respective plugin author) and aided by rapidly deployed patches or firewall rules by the Managed hosts. Tooling: Automating installs, code updates, and backups along with staging and deployment workflows enabled development teams to work faster and create more complex yet stable sites on WordPress. Support: More knowledgeable support technicians that understand WordPress to a higher degree than a generic web host. Some providers are better than others but all seem to at least make an attempt to specialize in the unique support requirements of WordPress. Here at Pagely we take great pride in our quality over quantity approach to support ensuring that every agent is not only deeply skilled in WordPress but proficient in the core technical skills of DevOps and deployment management allowing them to address any performance or security issue that may arise. What’s next for Pagely? It’s odd to look at the landscape, this $1 Billion-channel we created (and of course others helped to grow) and reflect on where we fit in the picture going forward. For us, it’s fairly simple – do more of the things that have made us successful thus far: Investing in our people and focusing on the customer. It’s a recipe that wins over the long term.

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Yodel - Group Stories is a new app that lets you create stories with friends, which anyone in the group can post photos and videos to, and everything disappears in 24hrs. Whether it’s sharing jokes with a private group of friends, seeing what’s going on around campus, or watching public stories from around the world, Yodel is an awesome way for groups to connect. With Yodel you can: • Create Public and Private group stories • Check out your school’s story to see what’s good around campus • Post anonymously when you want to keep your cover • Use custom filters • Swipe up to reply to posts with a thumbnail of the original • Use comments to chat about posts • Post freely as everything is deleted in 24hrs • Join featured stories from around the world You can get Yodel today on the iOS store at join.yodel.co and show us your side of the story.

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