angstrom

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by angstrom 19y ago
Yeah, from what I understand it was buried to avoid competing with windows live desktop search.
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by angstrom 19y ago
I still use LookOut which solved the search issue 4+ years ago. Ironic that Microsoft should buy LookOut. Bury it. Then look at buying a company that solved the same problem again, even after not integrating the previous acquisition (which
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What went wrong with Skype(arstechnica.com)
1 points by angstrom 19y ago|0 comments
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by angstrom 19y ago
Liking Skype and Skype being profitable on the scale neccessary to justify its acquisition price are two different venues. The goal of skype was to empower the eBay users and drive more users to eBays core auction business. It never materia
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Using tesla coils to create music(crave.cnet.com)
5 points by angstrom 19y ago|0 comments
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by angstrom 19y ago
Becoming a phone company was never in their best interests. VOIP has been looking for the killer app for 10 years. Unfortunately, everyone who does it winds up competing on cost. Why? Because the telephone has had over 100 years of innovati
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by angstrom 19y ago
Way too much thought. Here's my idea of a sales training video: 5 second fade-in of thier commision percentage. 5 seconds of just the percentage sitting on the screen. Then one of those damn screaming ghoulish pop up pictures to get them of
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by angstrom 19y ago
Mint.com It needs more features, but so far it's the only tool I have that is able to synch with all 12 of my financial accounts without having to manually download/import OFX or MNY files.
549.
by angstrom 19y ago
Not to mention their long time PowerPC relationship with Apple.
550.
by angstrom 19y ago
If I was someone gullible enough to buy something from them in the last couple days I would be rushing to call my credit card company right about...NOW.
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by angstrom 19y ago
I shouldn't have to have some proprietary, third-party plugin to read text or view simple images. Would that make http://www.scribd.com the antithesis to your statement? It solves the problem of viewing documents that would otherwise re
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by angstrom 19y ago
I've worked with threshold logic like that for collecting and analyzing traffic on telephone switches where an alarm or notification would be generated if the threshold was broken. Personally I would never want to debug something like that
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by angstrom 19y ago
Yeah, for being so impressive it fails the 30 second pitch in 5 seconds. Can't figure that out.
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by angstrom 19y ago
Most the people complaining are disatisfied because they want access to the service without the lock-in of the platform. They're the internet equivalent of a warning on the nut covered M&Ms package that says "Warning, contains nuts." Th
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by angstrom 19y ago
Best nugget of truth: The best business model is one that makes your customer money. From my personal experience eyeballs and race to the bottom savings never work in your favor unless your'e YouTube or WalMart.
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by angstrom 19y ago
I hear these little brain teasers and can't help but think of Monty Python's Holy Grail: "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" Yeah, I'm the guy who would ask "747-300 or 747-400?". Granted it could probably be figured ou
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by angstrom 19y ago
If you look at google acquisitions they usually integrate the ones that deal with Adsense pretty quickly. The mobile acquisitions really have yet to pan out. I wouldn't be surprised if this is more or less the story with GC. Google is despe
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by angstrom 19y ago
Alternatively: buy a composition book. They're usually littered with examples.
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by angstrom 19y ago
The problem with the social network is that it's more personal than search. Search, while personal, can be made innocuous by keeping annonymous information. The holy grail of the social graph is to find out who the viral supernodes are. By
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by angstrom 19y ago
Which is why they advocate a backward compatible virtualization module for win32 compatibility. Either way, Microsoft has to take a more modular approach if they're going to sustain backwards compatibility and continue innovating in future
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by angstrom 19y ago
There was also Inktomi in there somewhere too. They were eventually acquired by Yahoo. To be fair, Yahoo had a winning strategy of just licensing the search tech from other companies all the way up until Inktomi. Which is part of why it's f
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by angstrom 19y ago
If that was the solution I doubt we would be having the discussion. Shareware/Trialware is usually only good for enterprise solutions. Places where it makes sense to test it before full deployment. Once an OSS solution moves into a domain t
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by angstrom 19y ago
So your'e saying my ExxonMobil, McDonald's, Coca-Cola swastika doesn't deserve advertisers? You may have a point.
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by angstrom 19y ago
Makes no sense to me. Snubing MS for the sake of pissing on their offer just so Yahoo can turn around and undermine their own service. Sounds more like Microsoft is playing Bullshit and Yahoo is playing Go Fish...
565.
by angstrom 19y ago
Yes, it was once Overture, but Yahoo hasn't been able to successfully monetize it: http://sem.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/searchenginemarketing/
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by angstrom 19y ago
Personally, I'm suspicious of anyone who doesn't document what they did. If you are unable to take the time to leave a trail of your thought processes and reasons then the understanding you claim to have about your domain is suspect. The on
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by angstrom 19y ago
Market it as dihydrogen oxide skin cleaner.
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by angstrom 19y ago
And the information that can be found using Zillow and Indeed isn't half bad either.
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by angstrom 19y ago
Here I thought it had something to do with learning to ask the right questions. Turns out I just needed Omega-3, a PDA, and some random Jack Handey thoughts.
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by angstrom 19y ago
They took the jobsintown.de advertising campaign a little too seriously... http://www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/2006/05/jobsintownde.html

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