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by thafman 14y ago
I'm a massive proponent of the Distributed Social Networking Protocol concept, but since Diaspora tanked no one else seems to be picking up the mantle and Google/Yahoo/Microsoft don't look like they're going to roll out anything resembling
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by thafman 15y ago
No, unsolicited email is never legal, CAN-SPAM only allows you to send email to people you have a prior business relationship with e.g. they signed up for your service/mailing list. Someone who posted a property to Craigslist hardly fi
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by thafman 16y ago
"The N97 coulda been an iPhone killer and the N8 and E7 all exhibited potential they might have been big... if Nokia ever really put their mind to it, they coulda crushed the iPhone" I'll have two of whatever this guy is having. Nokia doesn
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"We are witnessing the beginning of the end of Facebook"(edition.cnn.com)
16 points by thafman 16y ago|7 comments
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by thafman 16y ago
IIRC Google now values YouTube at ~5Bn, and at that price I feel that there are plenty of companies who would bite Google's hand off.
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Adblock Plus Hits 100 Million Downloads(techcrunch.com)
2 points by thafman 16y ago|0 comments
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The age of creepy, and what to do about it.(whydoeseverythingsuck.com)
1 points by thafman 16y ago|0 comments
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Is App Store Success Closed To New Developers?(nadavgur.com)
6 points by thafman 16y ago|0 comments
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by thafman 16y ago
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Horseshit, I make a very comfortable, middle class living at an online/mobile travel commerce start-up that does booking transactions in much the same way that a tr
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by thafman 16y ago
A $10 gift card for 10 mins of phone feedback is probably the best investment of time/money that I have ever heard of, I will be shamelessly stealing this idea for years.
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Silicon Valley's CEOs don't just run the company, they keep the founder pure(economist.com)
1 points by thafman 16y ago|0 comments
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by thafman 16y ago
Affiliate booking revenue
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by thafman 16y ago
The team are proven entrepreneurs, but it's not like other travel start-ups like Kayak and Tripit where the founders all have proven domain expertise, Steve and Adam are hardly travel industry veterans.
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by thafman 16y ago
I once had a short conversation with Max Levchin (of PayPal fame) and the one thing he said that stuck in my mind -besides all the drivel about how Slide was going to change the world- was that 10% of a start-up's workforce should be metric
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by thafman 16y ago
In other news, researchers also announced that 100% of America's imports come from other countries.
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Please, for the Love of God, Upgrade Your Browser(slate.com)
1 points by thafman 16y ago|0 comments
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Bing overtakes Yahoo, and that's not a good thing(betanews.com)
1 points by thafman 16y ago|0 comments
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by thafman 16y ago
gaming the Digg FP for traffic ala Cracked.com is now (for better or worse) basically over, I'm sure Cracked is seeing a massive loss of traffic.
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by thafman 16y ago
If I remember correctly, Ning raised their last round at a ~$400M valuation. As a freemium Facebook competitor with Pmarca involved, you can sort of understand, but no one is going to pay >400M for a B2B social network maker.
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by thafman 16y ago
Fake http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20100810/meet-the-prankster-...
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by thafman 16y ago
I wouldn't consider most of the actions listed "unethical" per-se, some actions like; "creating a ton of pages with keywords to get long tail google traffic" are legitimate, while "buying an email list to spam people" can be downright i
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Why I Miss The Blinking Red Light(wadcity.tumblr.com)
2 points by thafman 16y ago|3 comments
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by thafman 16y ago
He is the sunshine on my shoulders
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Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown(wired.com)
16 points by thafman 16y ago|1 comments
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by thafman 16y ago
completely seconded
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The Hummus Manifesto(sixkidsandafulltimejob.blogspot.com)
11 points by thafman 16y ago|1 comments
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Happy Fourth Of July From Google With Rube Goldberg Doodle(searchengineland.com)
6 points by thafman 16y ago|1 comments
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Google Apps vs. Google Accounts Parity Coming(smarterware.org)
17 points by thafman 16y ago|3 comments
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How BlackBerry Can Get Fresh Again(nadav.worldmate.com)
2 points by thafman 16y ago|0 comments
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Early Stage Investments: Amazing, Smart or Crazy?(savantsinthelevant.com)
2 points by thafman 16y ago|0 comments

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