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by aresant 14y ago
I cant believe im the first commentor to call FuckedCompany on this, I am clearly getting old.
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If I’d had more time I would have written a shorter letter . . .(conversionvoodoo.com)
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by aresant 14y ago
Yet.
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by aresant 14y ago
One of the bread & butter services @ ConversionVoodoo.com is fixing broken UI's around checkout / carts. I have yet to meet a retailer that we can't hit at least 15 - 25% improvement in sales by testing and fixing their checkout. Take t
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by aresant 14y ago
There is no incentive to pay higher taxes as an individual. Country prosperity and supporting social services are nice concepts but ask any CPA how the average high earner feels about being "business partners" with the govt. So an honest su
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by aresant 14y ago
I am not surprised that a cover letter full of humility and honest self-appraisal has shocked Wall Street HR teams to the point of becoming a featured article on Yahoo.
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Increase conversion rate by making your site ugly. . .(conversionvoodoo.com)
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by aresant 14y ago
The funny thing is that this isn't even the only one that CA is imposing, the entirety of Prop 30 (voted on in Nov 2012) is retroactive for the entire tax year.
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by aresant 14y ago
This CNET article's title is a re-quote of a single line appearing in a Forbes article that originated from a 7-person "youth marketing agency" that lists a total of four technology clients: blogtv, unidentifiable logo, cybiko wireless, and
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by aresant 14y ago
This is a great example of how macro-statistics are inherently useless to predict individual outcomes (or even individual group outcome). I'd go so far to say irresponsible to publish without disclaimers since these kinds of studies are so
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by aresant 14y ago
A fun sci-fi read would be about a futuristic government that "subsidizes" an Industry for much-debated, but ultimately politically driven reasons. Rather than simply making cash-handouts, however, the Government & the Industry conspire
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by aresant 14y ago
Obvious comparison but interesting how close this feels to the DOJ hitting MSFT over the head for bundling: "The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software
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by aresant 14y ago
In this article I see a MSFT strategy unfolding of skipping the current smart-phone mobile battlefield, and leaping directly into full-bore cyborg computing. Bear with me, they've effectively laid out all the pieces: - A "omni touch" interf
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by aresant 14y ago
A fascinating parallel field is the development of EMP weapons - and they're no longer science fiction as Boeing recently detonated the first "successful EMP bomb" (1) w/the help of the military. A well placed EMP could literally knock out
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FB/GOOG Take Over Apple’s App Store, Poke Hits #1 A Day After Its Release(techcrunch.com)
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by aresant 14y ago
Prior to inventing GoPro Nick Woodman had a full on, VC funded bubble startup in 2000 called "FunBug". (1) (2) FunBug was "designed to drive consumer traffic and spending to online and offline client businesses" via games & sweepstakes.
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by aresant 14y ago
Here's a tip for your next test - make the link underlined so it looks like a link and choose a higher contrast color.
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by aresant 14y ago
I don't care what Marissa is doing for Yahoo's stock, as a user I am over the moon that they FINALLY put together a halfway decent Flickr App. Their mobile app efforts to date have been total crap for one of the world's largest photo sharin
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Flickr's new iPhone app puts mobile front and center (news.cnet.com)
1 points by aresant 14y ago|1 comments
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by aresant 14y ago
I found the photo of the founder clad in blue jeans and a black polo shirt in front of a large, clean presentation to be arresting. It instantly evoked the negatives that I read again and again about Chinese companies: brazen "pirating" of
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by aresant 14y ago
Simplistic logos are so easy to pan mercilessly & dismiss, and as a UC grad that was my first instinct too. But a quote on one of the subsequent sites in the comments (from UC's creative director) makes their case: "Previously, the UC s
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JavaScript trick to boost Christmas conversions by 10% (with code example)(conversionvoodoo.com)
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Why price elasticity testing is a MUST over the holidays . . . (conversionvoodoo.com)
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Marijuana Decriminalization Drops Youth Crime Rates by Stunning 20% in One Year (alternet.org)
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by aresant 14y ago
Fun article but as you'd expect from the title "we won’t know for certain what this means for human beings until more research is done."
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by aresant 14y ago
The housing & job reports feel right and are welcome news. But did the NYTimes just point to California's current budget as a sign of our State's "economic stability"? They quote that the "California Legislative Analyst’s Office project
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by aresant 14y ago
Win 8 moves ~40,000,000 licenses in first month. Upgrades are $39.99. Win 7 moved ~30,000,000 in month one. Upgrades were $120 - 220/upgrade. Vista moved 20,000,000 first month. Upgrades were $129 - 299. MSFT is offering the DVD-version of
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by aresant 14y ago
I get it that TechCrunch etc all need to push news at breakneck speed, but not even bothering to fact-check a PRWeb.com story is kind of ridiculous. PRWeb is a penny-stock / SEO favorite because essentially you can pay PRWeb $499 and your s
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by aresant 14y ago
Edited, thanks for the note -
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by aresant 14y ago
I think the missing #4 "What's Changed" in this article is that the consumer web is NOT monetizing as quickly as expected. If you look at Fred's UVC portfolio for "Consumer Web" I would hazard that their three largest are Twitter, Tumblr, &

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