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by ankit219 8y ago
Micropayment does not work on user end because the number of times it prompts the users. Example[1]. For me, it hinders the experience of reading. This would be even more problematic on the sites I have been on for the first time. The probl
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by ankit219 8y ago
Depends on how savvy or data driven is the marketing team of the advertiser(?).
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I think something like the concept of reddit gold can work on the content/news sites as well. At its core, its about the ones who liked/found the content useful can reward it with some payment. Usually, in most of the business mod
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by ankit219 8y ago
I discovered this about three years back as well. India has quite a few holidays when you are required to travel to your home with two major festivals - Diwali(Oct/Nov) and Holi (March). Since, it is important for people to be at home
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Two different answers here. If I am looking to buy something that I have already researched elsewhere, I would look at the reviews, but wont lay much weight to it. I have an idea of what the product is and what it is supposed to do before b
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by ankit219 8y ago
I spoke to a former VP of tripadvisor when they had acquired Viator. The business model they had was to get commissions on bookings(and ads), and apparently did not get that the volume needed. He compared the experience of browsing trip adv
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by ankit219 8y ago
I covered the exact same thing on one of my blogs here[1]. Shameless plug The reason for these is that they calculate Customer Lifetime value as one time transaction. So they put all their efforts to get a customer to convert on his first v
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A deep dive into Conversion Rate Optimization tactics used by Expedia(medium.com)
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by ankit219 8y ago
Well highlighted. In the Change of direction scenario, there is a corner case that stewards dont usually punish. And done by Verstappen. When he is being chased by another driver, near a turn, he sells a dummy. Pretending to go one way (sli
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by ankit219 8y ago
A (possibly dumb) question which might not have an exact answer: Facebook is always asked to stop the divisive nature and curb the misuse of the platform. As a techie, we all know how hard it is. A problem made even more complex by differen
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I dont know if it counts, but I have used a version of this (without the decryption) to restore all my settings after I reinstalled Chrome. (I dont use chrome's google sign in or auto sync). Here is what I did. I am sure you can write&
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by ankit219 8y ago
That is absolutely terrifying. As far as I know, FB does not allow you to target users by the group they join. (pages targeting is allowed). Which means it is likely that the Facebook algorithm is doing that without even prompted by the adv
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He is part right in his observation that things have become so generic due to influx of tourists, and increasing globalisation. The reasons for those are that, a majority of tourists(not travelers) like that 'generic services' abo
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by ankit219 8y ago
Disable cookies by default. If a website can't function without enabling cookies open it in incognito
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I was an avid quora user, but then stopped using it. It tried to cater to everything and everyone and then suddenly became boring. Earlier, it was a Q&A website where you could get quick or detailed answers about your doubts/querie
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by ankit219 8y ago
I used a long and supercomplicated password for one of my accounts that i access intermittently. Why I have it is a long story, but I only log into it once or twice a month to check if there is something that needs my attention. Usually the
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by ankit219 8y ago
I think the author is talking about a 'Forced Code review' because it is supposedly a good practice to have a code review before you put something into production (which it is). The current practice is a coder submitting the entir
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by ankit219 8y ago
PG wrote this[1] essay in March 2012, where he was saying the same thing. Paul Buccheit reviewed the essay and had a suggestion to make. PG wrote "GMail is painfully slow.", PB changed it to "GMail has become painfully slow.&
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by ankit219 8y ago
There is one in India called 'The Wire' which is run as a non profit. It is mostly India centric, and run by an editor who earlier was (in)famous for his supposedly leftist ideologies. They have been in operation for more than thr
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by ankit219 8y ago
I can empathise with the experience, and have seen many others go through the same. Part of it is because many colleges(and by extension, firms) in India are focused on knowledge of frameworks and languages as a key indicator of skill and q
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by ankit219 8y ago
India.
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Right now, its just Skyscanner and a couple of other vendors. We let go of our margin to ensure the lowest prices.
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by ankit219 8y ago
A lot of solutions focused on building itineraries, and to me that is where they missed the mark. Planning and itinerary building is not a hassle, its part of the experience. People like an itinerary made for them, but they dont follow it,
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by ankit219 8y ago
Sorry, saw this late. There are a few AI components here: 1. ML based recommendation engine to suggest flights, hotels, activities/experiences, and even destinations based on profile (social data, interaction data, and booking data) an
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by ankit219 8y ago
I am working on Blubyn - an AI powered travel agent helping users book flights and hotels quickly by personalizing results. Here is the link: http://onelink.to/blubyn (app only - available on both iOS and Android) Being an
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Booking.com – Annoying yet a Genius Experience (by Ori Feldstein)(linkedin.com)
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I hope someone somewhere makes a new version of Altavista search, if only for the developers. Searching via google is easy for basic errors but is a huge pain if you are slightly advanced. With the capabilities being extended (and more and
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by ankit219 8y ago
yeah, we have suffered too. Initially we were using firebase Real Time DB for authentication as well as delivering messages. Messages suffered outages every now and then (and we suffered more cos our backend is in Python Django and Pyrebase
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It is designed for average users it seems. Many users (me included) when they delete cookies or do a clear browsing data don't want to be logged out of their accounts. Usually, this meant I never cleared cookies while clearing the brow
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Of course, there can be more explanations 1/ Assuming the contributors can punish anyone, participants who contributed higher in 2-3 rounds would start punishing those who contribute less, given at some level, they are also free-riding

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