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New Digg team give a sneak peek under the hood(rethinkdigg.com)
17 points by arctictony 14y ago|1 comments
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by arctictony 14y ago
So bit.ly tried to do something about this a while back by helping to found http://archive.org/details/301works
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by arctictony 14y ago
Google only receives pings on the page load so it then assumes that each visitor is there for five minutes to get its measurement of concurrents. Chartbeat is being pinged every few seconds so we can tell if someone is really there or not.
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by arctictony 14y ago
Hey, I'm the CEO of chartbeat. When Google Analytics launched their real time we saw a slight jump in churn that month and then things settled down to normal levels again the next month, so not much effect at all thus far. This might have s
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by arctictony 15y ago
Yep, I had this issue. No visa covers a foreign entrepreneur wanting to come and create jobs in the US. In the end I had to go through contortions to get an O1 but it wasn't pretty.
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by arctictony 15y ago
My reading is still fairly undisciplined. I am trying to get up earlier in the mornings to read before work, but it's challenging. Reading Gotham took at least six weeks whereas other books I blew through in a day. My goal is to get up to a
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2011 in books(tonyhaile.com)
6 points by arctictony 15y ago|4 comments
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by arctictony 15y ago
It was gutting to see the Challenge business go under. The 2004 race also had major challenges and only just got round financially. That is a great quote though
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by arctictony 15y ago
Thank you! I'm really glad it connected. I love this from Goethe: Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you c
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by arctictony 15y ago
Love this comment, thanks for this. On the 90ft wave front, you find them down in the Southern Ocean. There's no landmass to break them up so they just roll around getting larger and larger. In Southern Ocean storms we regularly had waves a
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What I learned on a round-the-world yacht race(tonyhaile.com)
191 points by arctictony 15y ago|20 comments
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How Chartbeat wants to help save the media industry(gigaom.com)
18 points by arctictony 15y ago|2 comments
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Betaworks and the NY Times are building a Social News Service(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by arctictony 16y ago|0 comments
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by arctictony 16y ago
Hey Jon, I'm the GM of chartbeat and totally appreciate your point. Everything you say is super appropriate for the traditional role of static analytics which was to look at usual behaviour on fairly persistent architectures over time and o
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Chartbeat gets $3m from Index, Calacanis, Conway, Clavier, Sacca(techcrunch.com)
31 points by arctictony 16y ago|21 comments
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by arctictony 16y ago
Best not to ask for a raise, just keep working hard and good things will probably happen. Karma and all that.
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by arctictony 16y ago
Wow, Aditya, why would you try to fool us like that? Are you some kind of spam-tastic linkbaiter?
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by arctictony 16y ago
I know the guy who built this, he has a douchebag boss who makes him work long hours so he might not have had much time to devote recently...
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by arctictony 17y ago
Chartbeat also has a free iphone app with push notifications.
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by arctictony 17y ago
Speaking as a Brit Manager who pays his engineers more than himself and is perfectly happy about this, I call Bollocks.
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by arctictony 18y ago
Chartbeat isn't trying to compete with an analytics package like Google Analytics, they don't measure any of the same metrics. Chartbeat allows you to react in real-time when events occur. If your site goes down or suddenly a flood of traff