BigDamnDeal

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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
This is why I want Foursquare to start handling reviews. (Foursquare lets people "check in" at a bar, restaurant, or other venue and notify friends.) Foursquare's developers say they're working on winnowing out false checkins with GPS, whic
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
I'd argue that Tumblr, by focusing on the social, has opened itself to a wider variety of possible revenue sources. They could succeed at social advertising where Facebook has failed. (Not that Facebook doesn't make money, just that they do
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
Shh, Jacob, get out of here, we're talking about your stuff!
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
I'm coming at this as another blogger who makes a living off of writing out my opinions, and from that angle, you're not trolling, just offering a strong opinion. You truly believe Tumblr is kicking Posterous's ass (the mildest possible "sw
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
If you read past the first paragraph, he explains how the design goes far beyond "pretty". He explicitly says that "pretty" is not the point.
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
One way to normalize this is to ask: How quickly was Tumblr growing when it was as small as Posterous is now? Then you're comparing apples to apples.
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
I made an extra OPML file to follow my 5,000 favorite information overload blogs.
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
I only use them for Twitter, which is why I don't get the proliferation of six-character domains like bit.ly and goo.gl when bit.ly already offers j.mp. Why would anyone choose anything but the absolute shortest domain, if j.mp won't go und
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
Seriously! I know this moron who named his site Facebook but hosted it at thefacebook.com!
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
The one time I've been able to keep up a breakneck pace was at Gawker (I'm Nick Douglas, its founding editor), and that was after they almost fired me. It took me a few months to steadily crank out 12 blog posts a day (plus features). The e
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
I don't know where Biz Stone went to college, but his co-founder Evan Williams went to the University of Nebraska before making Blogger and Twitter. Twitter's inventor, Jack Dorsey, did go to the prestigious Missouri S&T before going to
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
As well as production of valued concrete.
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
Unlikely, but possible.
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
I must be dyslexic. Whenever I see a post titled "Why X Matters," I can't help reading "X doesn't matter."
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
Every single statement of his reads like that.
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
So how do you give directions? I know you must have a system, but I'm not sure exactly how it works. "Head down to Block 16, take a left and turn right at block 22"?
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
I'd love to read a meatier piece on this subject. Not sure the lessons in here actually amount to much.
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
While this sounds cute, I'm not sure what the incentive is for anyone to actually buy something they wouldn't have, or pay more than they otherwise would. Maybe it'd be more fun to participate if the idea were very clever. This seems about
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
The Fitbit looked very fun, but the site didn't mention an alarm function. I'm already envisioning a long slog toward convergence, because some day I want my phone to do calorie-counting and smart-alarming. After all, I already keep it near
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
Ha, touché!
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
Yeah, this seems especially excellent for getting initial awareness of a product – in this case, that specific IKEA location, as represented by its manager. It also seems like a good way to build a mailing list, as the Obama campaign did wh
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
Wow, I rarely take Farhad Manjoo's side, but this IT guy sounds like he simply wants to avoid doing his job. He even ruins his excellent point – that sometimes the real enemy is the management who set ridiculous policies for IT to execute –
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
They should do something, but I expect auto-deleting old messages would be an even worse solution.
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
I bet the commenter above would prefer to be judged on his accomplishments as an interviewer, rather than some half-assed assessment of him as a person made in a comment.
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
And because Justin is already a successful writer who edits Maxim.com. He founded the comedy site Holy Taco (now owned by Break Media) and for the show he's getting the help of the co-creators of "Will and Grace." "Shit My Dad Says" was jus
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by BigDamnDeal 17y ago
This might work if Murdoch wasn't saying that he's not at all interested in being indexed, but in serving paying subscribers. Calacanis missed Murdoch's motive for opting out of Google: Not because Google's specifically a bad place to get t