willheim

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by willheim 15y ago
FB has but to do one thing to remain king of the heap and that is to maintain focus. The more junk they add to the site, the more ads, games, stupid apps (find out who's stalking you!) the uglier and more MySpace-like it becomes. FB succe
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by willheim 15y ago
When you resort to callous language you demonstrate a lack of creativity. There's an energy drink company up here in Canada with some rather terrible ads but one thing I do like is their tagline: "No Caffeine. No Caffeine Crash. No Bull"
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by willheim 15y ago
Erm... no. Apple announcing iCloud is kinda like Palm announcing WebOS a couple of years ago, streaming music from LastFM (though iCloud doesn't stream), getting your pics up and down from Flickr, and working on GDocs/Gmail/GCal/Office365.
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by willheim 15y ago
Yay!!!!!! Missed you guys too much!
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Is iMessage missing something?
1 points by willheim 15y ago|2 comments
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by willheim 15y ago
Would a company such as Facebook even want to go solo in being a credit provider? I don't see it. I do see them partnering with one of the big credit providers to create a FBCard. Then they could say that to use or purchase FBCredits you
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by willheim 15y ago
Square was my first thought, too. Yes, they could most certainly take on MC/Visa/Amex/etc. Maybe that is why Visa invested in Square? You have to get the POS units into retailer's hands. Then, at the same time, you have to get consumers
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by willheim 15y ago
I have to admit, when I heard of Remembary I though... huh, that sounds like Momento. Doing a quick search of Remembary vs Momento immediately brought me to this post. Then I read how Andrew Burke, Remembary's developer, handled the same
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How 1 developer handled learning a big competitor doing a similar thing(shindigital.com)
1 points by willheim 15y ago|1 comments
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by willheim 15y ago
Hey! That's awesome! Thanks for coming back and letting us all know how you did and that I played a small part in it. (small as in that was one tiny blurb I mentioned and all the hard work was done by you alone). It made my day to read
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by willheim 15y ago
At 5.9%+$0.95 or 8.9% flat? Good luck with that. Unless you can explain to me why anyone would be willing to pay near double what anywhere charges... Seriously, your site doesn't explain this well. Why do you charge near double (or even
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by willheim 15y ago
Wow! The glowing reviews of Braintree really got my interested in them. So I went to their site. The best I've seen yet! Really top notch. Info flows clearly and plainly. Love it... except I'm in Canada. They don't service Canada. S
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by willheim 15y ago
Businesses do that every day. Look at the price of a book which often has two or more currency prices on it. Of course, what happened here in Canada is that stores started offering discounts or "US Pricing" models when our dollar went up.
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by willheim 15y ago
So are you suggesting different amounts depending on the currency and the location of the enquiry IP? Example: $30CAD, $30USD, 18EUR, 2600Yen? That's something to think about. Have you done that or know a service that has?
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by willheim 15y ago
Funny... I live with the conversion issue almost every day. Something we Canadians (and I suspect everyone doing online transactions) have just gotten used to. That said, every barrier to an acceptance is one I want to eliminate. Thanks
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Ask HN: Which Currency to charge in?
4 points by willheim 15y ago|10 comments
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by willheim 15y ago
The author, Mark Hughes, is correct in his write-up and comes up with a few suggested scenarios where it would be "ideal". Unfortunately for Color those ideal situations where a critical mass makes the app useful are few and far between.
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by willheim 15y ago
Facebook will remain as long as people support it. In the short history of the net we have seen sites come and go with little more reason than they simply became passe. AOL had all the makings of a facebook (every ad on TV/poster had AOL
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by willheim 15y ago
I don't think we have ever in the history of the world seen a start-up so mindbogglingly confusing. Wait, let me clarify that statement with the amendment "handed $41m". Seriously, has anyone figured out how to use color and found anything
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by willheim 15y ago
Instagram and Hipstamatic are fine... for now. Let's face it, they create intriguing images today that very likely we will look stylistically dated in 5-10 years as "Hipstamatic" or "Instagram" shots. On the other hand PS or any of the nu
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by willheim 15y ago
The title says it all. I've been working on a project for quite some time when it suddenly dawned on me (as target release date after release date kept slipping) that what I am actually building is an assembly of many functions and that I
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by willheim 15y ago
When one browser (in this case, Chrome) works beautifully and the other browser (in this case FF4) refuses to operate in some capacity then that is most certainly not a problem with my computer. Do you know how many people out there have th
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by willheim 16y ago
Consumer Apps? There really aren't many out there. The ones that are fall into the new content/entertainment segment of news/music/video, primarily. Everything else has been made free so it can get pretty tough to get people to open thei
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by willheim 16y ago
I was REALLY hopeful for FF to make a comeback with 4. I had been a convert in the 2.X days and watched as it got bloated and slower throughout 3. Switched to Chrome in version 9 and never looked back. Then IE9 came out and was so much f
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by willheim 16y ago
This is not an issue. We currently face the same inefficiency of having to encode videos in multiple codecs today. Want your vid on iOS? H.264. Want your vid on other platforms? Pretty open. What's the issue? Just some inefficiency.
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by willheim 16y ago
I like it and I'm scared for you. Here's why: Like because: Design, interface, potential for information gathered there, potential use. You know all this. Scared because: You're creating an information portal when Google does a better j
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by willheim 16y ago
7 courses? Wow! That's a lot of cooking. Guess someone domain squatted 3-6courses.com. So, if I want to rip off this idea do I have to be 8courses.com? Or could I beat you to the punch with 6courses.com? Sorry, didn't get past the firs
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by willheim 16y ago
I also use Pencil. Before that I was just using Fireworks or whatever graphic software I felt like. Pencil (as a true wireframing tool) forced me to focus on just wireframing which enabled me to get some alternative graphic ideas from my
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by willheim 16y ago
I have a bunch of ideas but really don't feel like spending the effort typing them up. Maybe that's how they feel? Abandoned, unloved, salvageable but... who cares?
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by willheim 16y ago
That's a tough one. Persistence and lucky timing could help if you can't get a direct and personal introduction. Till you get the introduction it will all be about persistence.

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