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by agilord 14y ago
Why do you think so? I think the capacity is there, but we might need to change our media-consumption / media-creation habits to see the small players too. In other words: it is a discovery problem.
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by agilord 14y ago
"Social networks are extremely risky investments, no matter what." ?
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by agilord 14y ago
yes, although I'd include an AND condition, like "If your site has googleable content AND you engage your users in a meaningful way..."
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by agilord 14y ago
e-mail account is different, as it gives you an address that others will use exclusively to communicate with you. On the other hand, Facebook friends will use your name and the search field to look up for you, unique address is not that cri
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by agilord 14y ago
it is really early to bury a tool that has just started to take some shape. why do you have doubts?
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by agilord 14y ago
You shall create a wikipedia page for that, that way we can refer to it :)
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by agilord 14y ago
For us, the following talk was the closest to describe what we like to call agile: http://www.agilord.com/en/radar/2012/09/dan-north-embracing-... This part is especially important: "A good methodology allows us to defer decisions, let th
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What is true agile for you?
1 points by agilord 14y ago|1 comments
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Dan North: Embracing uncertainty(agilord.com)
1 points by agilord 14y ago|0 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
You should not force yourself to quit X/Y/Z, rather, you might want to choose a balanced approach: limit the use of such sites to 5-15 minutes a day, a have best of both worlds.
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by agilord 14y ago
nice, thanks!
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by agilord 14y ago
Yeah, right, the definition of the database is fuzzy. As every technology, S3 has its pros and cons, and the latency is a con this time. Take a latency-intensive application (1), and it will feel miserably slow with S3. Take a storage-inten
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by agilord 14y ago
Your example (reddit using S3) is not a database use, it is a content delivery network use. For that, it is good enough, but I'd choose a different key-value store for database, and mostly because of the latency (been there, tried that).
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by agilord 14y ago
latency (and costs)
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by agilord 14y ago
App store is all of the following: distribution, discovery and promotion. apt-get was really a distribution platform at first, and you could use it for discovery as well. Apple's store is full of promotion, and I haven't seen any Linux solu
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by agilord 14y ago
"Booom! You've been inspired. You've a big idea. Yeah? Now what?" - Astro Teller shares a few of his mantras that help him to make through challenging times. A blog entry that provides a summary of the talk: http://www.agilord.com/en/radar
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Astro Teller: Getting Started On a Big Idea(astroteller.net)
1 points by agilord 14y ago|1 comments