September 14th, 2012

YouTube Moves API Discussions And Support To Stack Overflow, Ditches Google Groups

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Calling all developers, YouTube has taken steps to join Stack Overflow and bring discussions about its API there. For those who are using the API, you know that Google Groups hasn’t really been cutting it as far as getting updated information, details, and responses.

It’s an interesting move for a Google-owned property to jump outside of its own house, but one that’s necessary to properly… → Read More

June 24th, 2011

Stack Exchange Gets In The Conference Game With Stack Overflow DevDays

Q&A network Stack Exchange will be launching Stack Overflow DevDays this fall, a two day conference targeting coders who want to brush up or dive into the latest programming technologies like MongoDB, HTML 5 and Coffeescript, with hour long tutorials put on by speakers culled from the developer community. → Read More

March 13th, 2011

(Founder Stories) Joel Spolsky On Startups: "Have A Co-Founder Otherwise You'll Go Insane"

All this week on Founder Stories, we’ve shown segments from Chris Dixon’s interview with Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky, who also writes the Joel on Software blog. In the final rapid-fire Q&A video above, Spolsky doles out some advice to other startup founders, primarily “have a co-founder” to share the load, “otherwise you’ll go insane.” And “make sure you figure out who wons what,” he… → Read More

March 11th, 2011

(Founder Stories) Stack Exchange's Joel Spolsky On How SEO Makes The Internet Worse

Content farms and SEO are the bane of the Internet. Google is fighting it, but somehow spam results keep slipping through. In this second installment of our Founder Stories interview with Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky, he talks about how SEO spam sites make the Internet worse.

For instance, Stack Overflow is the premier site on the Internet for programmers to ask and answer questions about… → Read More

March 9th, 2011

(Founder Stories) Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky On When To Take VC Cash

Today, Stack Overflow founder Joel Spolsky announced that he raised another $12 million in venture capital and that he is changing the name of his company to Stack Exchange. He also happens to be our next guest on Founder Stories, the TCTV show where angel investor and Hunch co-founder Chris Dixon talks shop with other founders. (Disclosure: Dixon is also an investor in Stack Exchange).

The… → Read More

March 8th, 2011

Stack Overflow, Now Stack Exchange Inc, Raises $12M From Union Square Ventures And Others

Vertical Q&A site network Stack Overflow has just announced new funding, in a $12 million Series B round lead by Index Ventures, Spark Capital, and their first investor Union Square Ventures. This brings the company’s total funding to $18 million. It will also be changing its name to Stack Exchange Inc to better reflect its cross vertical aspirations.

Index Ventures’ Neil Rimer, Spark’s… → Read More

November 25th, 2010

Stack Overflow Hits 10M Uniques, Boldly Goes Where No Q&A Site Has Gone Before

It seems as though Q&A network Stack Overflow has put the $6 million in funding it received back in May to good use, crossing the 10 million unique monthly visitor mark as of yesterday. While sites like Quora bank on the winning Q&A model being on one big monolithic site, Stack Overflow is showing success by carefully separating the Q&A game into different communities, launching 34→ Read More