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by dillydally 15y ago
For Facebook "active" has always meant "signed on within the last 30 days."
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by dillydally 15y ago
That depends entirely on the cost of a mistake. If the cost of mistake is low, it's better to make a lots of decisions quickly than it is to try to get each decision correct.
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by dillydally 16y ago
The fact that 10% come from that page is a problem, not something to brag about.
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by dillydally 16y ago
They send out emails. They're not relying on people reading the blog. Also, http://www.businessinsider.com/yelps-first-daily-deal-beats-...
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by dillydally 16y ago
If you're producing the slides for a live audience, this style is superior. People can read faster than you can talk, so if what you're saying is all packed onto the slides it creates a bad audience dynamic. If, OTOH, the slide you're prod
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by dillydally 16y ago
Or, rather, you just enter a URL and it tells you what frameworks the app is using.
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by dillydally 16y ago
You've met one, now!
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by dillydally 16y ago
Uh, sure, ok. Facebook "rode the fad" the same way Ford rode the car-driving fad. You're not really saying anything at all, as far as I can tell.
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by dillydally 16y ago
I think it just becomes story-telling.
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by dillydally 16y ago
OpenID and OpenSocial aren't getting traction anywhere. OpenID because it's a non-solution to a non-problem, and OpenSocial because Google didn't provide developers with the primary benefit of the Facebook Platform (distribution). Plus the
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by dillydally 16y ago
Yeah, everyone knows that search is only good for driving traffic at other pages where you sell banner ads. Building a portal is the only viable long-term strategy, and Yahoo! has that locked up.
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by dillydally 16y ago
They made plenty of attempts. You're just ignorant of them.
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by dillydally 16y ago
Don't be an ass. You don't know the first thing about the people working there and what they have or haven't tried. A simple back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that a freemium, subscription, or (uhm...) donation model won't work. We'r
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by dillydally 16y ago
Funny. Do you have any actual information about how early they tried to find a business model? I suspect you don't. So, the situation is this: we have a product lots of people want. The naive business model (freemium) won't work -- a sim
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by dillydally 16y ago
Every company is around until it isn't. Blockbuster just declared bankruptcy -- does that make Blockbuster a fad? Facebook is six years old. 500MM people use it every month. They are profitable and do over $1Bn in revenue. They have a p
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by dillydally 16y ago
I didn't read the part about validations. That's silly. Even if you have to do it in the application layer, why would you need more than one SELECT? Just get the installed apps from the DB in a single query and do a set difference operati
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by dillydally 16y ago
In what universe is Facebook a fad? There are billion-dollar companies built on their platform, ferchrissakes!
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by dillydally 16y ago
Erm, that solution is a little extreme, unless there are a few steps missing. The first things I'd do: 1. Aggregate those inserts into a single SQL command. You never want to be issuing O(n) SQL queries per request. 2. Use InnoDB, not MyIS
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by dillydally 16y ago
Doesn't that support pg's argument vs. Arrington's?
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by dillydally 16y ago
It was founded by Mitch Kapor. I think he knows a thing or two about starting companies...
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by dillydally 16y ago
$100k is an ok number for a one-person outfit, but it would be hard to support even one employee on that number. In face, their current model of altering the Google SERPs almost certainly generates more revenue.
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by dillydally 16y ago
Who needs Dropbox when you can just run rsync?
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by dillydally 16y ago
Groupon
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by dillydally 16y ago
Yes, but the reason these brands weren't doing this before Gilt was because they were afraid selling excess inventory at a discount would associate their goods with that lower price-point. Gilt gets around this by maintaining a semi-private
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by dillydally 16y ago
You're wrong and I'm happy to bet against you. Proof points: 1. Tencent QQ is a Chinese social network for games. It's essentially Facebook+Zynga combined. Many of the top games on Facebook are ports of popular Chinese games, e.g., the fa
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by dillydally 16y ago
There's a reason the deals on Groupon last only a day. Your argument applies equally to Gilt, but I don't think people are going to start paying less for Diesel jeans.
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by dillydally 16y ago
How "productive" was Electronic Arts? It's from the same class as Adobe, etc. Computers aren't just for spreadsheets.
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by dillydally 16y ago
OTOH, how are client developers supposed to get the word out? This will just encourage more aggressive tactics, like requiring people to tweet about the app to unlock certain features.
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by dillydally 16y ago
My money is on "Quora for enterprise." Yammer is also launching a Q&A product. There was a question on Quora (can't find it now) about whether Quora itself was going to build an enterprise product, and they said no, there weren't any i
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by dillydally 16y ago
Well, technically speaking, 0 correlation isn't an insult. It just means HN karma says nothing about your hacking ability. If, OTOH, he said Corr(HackerNewsKarma, HackingAbility) = -1.0...

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